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Can we all stop and agree how freakin’ nice it was this weekend?
And there’s even better news: everyday this week is slated to have a high of at least 55 degrees. So ditch your winter coat and skip the usual routine of heading home straight after work. Our event calendar is jam packed you have no excuse to miss out.
This week: the 140 conference strikes again, PSL get happy (and possibly political) and 8static throws down with a free show.
Below, a middle-class pharma company gets a little bigger, a 30 Under 30 nod for an e-mail marketer and more.
Below, Gabe Weinberg talks with Jimmy Wales, comic book classes and more.
Last week, we announced a contest in partnership with Mogo Media to give one of our readers a free ticket to Mogo’s Adobe Flash training seminar on Fri., Feb. 26. Based on a random drawing, we’d like to congratulate Sarah Lindsay who we’re hooking up with that $129 ticket!
Don’t miss out. If you still would like to attend the seminar, Technically Philly readers get a special 10 percent discount if they register with coupon code “TECHNICAL” (case-sensitive).
After the jump, see some favorite Philly-based designs as chosen by Technically Philly readers.
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Below, zombies and geeks, SAP CEO leaves in a tornado of speculation and more.
After the jump, CoTweet gets big name clients, Viddler video of Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose and more.
In which we link out to the tech news from Philly and elsewhere (when it matters) that slips through the cracks and make it way fun. See others here.
Geekadelphia launches its new Geek of the Week department with the co-founder of food blog Unbreaded, Ben Kessler, a freshly graduated Drexel University marketing major with brains, drive, personality and a total social media obsession. But here’s where it gets juicy. As Kessler implies in the interview, his hunt for work in Philly has proven unsuccessful. The word we’ve heard? That the first Geek of the Week interview from Philly’s premier geek blog is considering a move to the 67th ward. Guys, if we can’t retain someone like Kessler, we have a real problem here. Can someone do something about this?After the jump , video of a South Jersey Apple store robbery and more than 10 other Philly tech reads that you just might need to know about, including our best read story of the week.
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"Is that a trident," asks Bianca Cevoli, the Geekadelphia contributor who snagged this photo of a portion of Wednesday night's crowd at Tattooed Mom for our Section 8 release party.
Above a relatively sleepy Wednesday night bar crowd on the first floor of Tattooed Mom was the noise of our first co-hosted event with culture blog Geekadelphia, held earlier this week.
The eclectic hipster grunge South Street institution played host to the Philadelphia release party for Section 8, the soon-to-debut Timegate first person science-fiction shooter for XBox and PCs. A decidedly more 20-something crowd of 60 scenesters and geeks came for the party, sharing the bar’s tagged and multicolored upstairs with two dozen others who trickled in and out throughout the night.
We’re sick of this friggin’ humidity. Can we get an Aaa-men on that?
But it’s fine, really, because there’s plenty of indoor events with satisfying air conditioning on this week’s calendar—which brings joy to this farmer’s tanned writer—and plenty of ice cold brewski to go with it.
Often featured, always entertaining Duane Swierczynski will be signing autographs for his new comic at McGillan’s Tuesday, because Swierczynski made the Center City pub part of the story line. We’re crossing our fingers that if we keep posting about him, he’ll write us into his next comic. Pretty please?
Social Media Club gives back this week as it hosts a session on using tweets and fan pages for good. They’ve got some great speakers lined up who will share insight on using Web 2.0 for philanthropy, including representatives from Blame Drew’s Cancer, American Red Cross and Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. Attending will be like the millennial version of helping an old lady across the street.
Wednesday, don’t miss Technically Philly and Geekadelphia’s first joint event, as we, along with TimeGate Studios, host a launch party for Section 8, a new Xbox/PC first person shooter at Tattooed Mom. Don’t miss it, if not for the free swag and cupcakes from Open Source Cupcakes, then for the tales I’m going to tell about missing just about every high school social event to play Quake2 with a 56k modem. I still say LPBs can eat it.
Later in the week, PhillyCHI is all about staying healthy and the Philly Chapter of International Game Developers Association hosts its August meeting. Details after the jump.
All events listed on the event calendar are free to attend. Be sure to check our complete calendar for more.
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In which we link out to the tech news from Philly and elsewhere (when it matters) that slips through the cracks and make it way fun. See others here.
Nicole Brewer has to at least be in the running for Philadelphia’s technology community it girl. We sure love her.
The former Miss Pennsylvania is the city’s first “digital TV journalist,” as a Web-based correspondent for the CW Philly, and, Hell, she managed to make a story out of Geekadelphia, so she has to have something figured out.
Now, here’s a chance to get a little insight on Brewer, as the Philadelphia Examiner asks her 20 questions, though the most interesting answer is that she chooses Metro over the Inqy and the Daily News (and, ugh, the 67th ward comes up twice).
After the jump, John Gruber called Apple king, an Inqy tweeter bails and four other stories, including our best read piece of the week.
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