DEFINITE READS

• Cyberjournalist reports that University of Pennsylvania researchers found readers are more likely to share three types of stories online.
• PEHub is looking for votes on where it should host its next meetup, and Philadelphia is a choice. Vote here.

Below, zombies and geeks, SAP CEO leaves in a tornado of speculation and more.

MIGHT BE OF INTEREST

• Keystone Edge has a Q&A with myYearbook founder Catherine Cook.
• i09 profiles the wildly successful Zombie screening that Geekadelphia held at the Troc in Chinatown.
• Peter Key of the Philadelphia Business Journal reports on Google seeking municipalities to try its broadband service. No word on in Philly is tossing its hat in.
• The Cadence Watch Company, which we covered in November before it was rebranded from Cadence Rowing, announced this week the winner of its watch design contest held during Design Philadelphia last October. Philadelphia University graduate student Josh Chadwick’s winning design will be manufactured and sold by Cadence in September.

GIVE A GLANCE

• AT&T’s regional office tipped Technically Philly that it has selected Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson as its infrastructure suppliers for its planned Long Term Evolution Network. It’s a step forward to creating the company’s next-generation 4G network, eventually here in Philadelphia.
• Philly Tech News has a roundup of the fallout surrounding SAP CEO Léo Apotheker stepping down — and more here.
• The Inquirer reports that “Philadelphia solar installer Eos Energy Solutions has been acquired by Mercury Solar Systems of New York.”

Every Friday morning, we make sure you didn’t miss anything with Friday Tech Links.

DEFINITE READS

• The Pittsburgh Business Journal reports that the Pennsylvania budget cuts mean less money for startups. H/T Philly Tech News
• The Green Skeptic and the Inquirer’s Mike Armstrong give their takes on Founders Factory from Philly Startup Leaders. See our review here.
• Dude from Philly Eco City wants to try a DIY car share and wants help.
• NJBIZ reports on a Camden startup focusing on cyber threats like flash mobs. H/T PTN

After the jump, CoTweet gets big name clients, Viddler video of Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose and more.

MIGHT BE WORTH YOUR TIME

• The Philadelphia Business Journal reports that President Obama has named University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann to chair a new Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.
• Ad Ops online has news of a host of big corporate clients coming on board as paying clients to CoTweet, formerly of central Pennsylvania.
• Philadelphia Business Journal reporter John George reports on nine poster winners who participated in a competition at Biotech 2009, the annual biotechnology industry symposium.
• Geekadelphia reports on another webcomic set in Philadelphia.

GIVE A GLANCE

• An Irish newspaper reports on the recession-motivated expansion there of Exton-based software firm Bentley Systems. H/T PTN
• Geekadelphia shares photos from its third anniversary party at North Bowl.
• The Inquirer covers a Berwyn nonprofit that wants to certify the good deeds of businesses.
• Philadelphia Business Journal tracks the ugly stockholder fight around Malvern-based USA Technologies.

The company blog of Bethlehem-based Viddler shares video from the Web 2.0 Expo 2009, specifically a keynote conversation between Digg CEO & Revision3 chairman  Jay Adelson and Digg founder Kevin Rose about the company’s strategy, the video of which can be seen below.

• Our Most Trafficked Story of the Week: SEPTA to launch Google Transit bus routes this week, more redesign details

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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.

DEFINITE READS

• 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?

• Philly Tech News reports that rumors have put Google CEO Eric Schmidt‘s recent interest in acquisitions directly in Center City, namely in online advertising startup Invite Media, yeah the company whose offices were caught up in a fire scare in February.

• The Business Journal’s Peter Key, who, we’re telling you, in any other city would have a cult following, regales us with an admittedly strange story about how he was almost killed by Leap Wireless 20 years ago. The next time someone criticizes social media, just mention to them that blogging brought you the chance to read a Peter Key story in which he mentions Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

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.

MIGHT BE WORTH YOUR TIME

• paidContent reports that San Diego-based digital video firm DivX has acquired Malvern-based AnySource Media in a deal that could be worth $15 million. We spoke to AnySource’s CEO Mike Harris back in May. The Business Journal’s Peter Key reports that, for now, AnySource is staying in Malvern.

• The Wilmington News-Journal reports that HostmySite.com is moving its headquarters from Newark, Del. to Denver, but will retain a presence in the Delaware college town, likely increasing its staff size.

• Government Technology runs a profile of Philadelphia CIO Allan Frank, prompted by his Digital Philadephia vision, which we thoroughly covered last month. H/T Philly Tech News

GIVE A GLANCE

• The Business Journal reports that Conshocken-based Web business intelligence company ClickEquations secured $3 million in venture capital investment from eight investors, including Naval Yard-based firms BFTP and Emerald Stage2 Ventures and University City’s MentorTech Ventures. Web Analytics World had an interview with a company spokesman on the move.

• Old City magazine The Scientist covers cheerleading science literacy from Society Hill’s Darlene Cavalier, with whom we chatted for the700level and enough to run our own Q&A on Science Cheerleader. Oh, and hey, a Newsweek blog also featured Cavalier’s Science Cheerleader site.

• The Inquirer reports that a new CEO has been named for University City-based business-organization software company Neat Co.

• Geekadelphia now has a Mac OS widget that allows you to visit Philly’s premier tech blog without launching your browser. Geek’s Dan Tabor is behind its creation, we’re told.

• An Apple Store in Marlton, N.J. was hit by five masked robberies who stole 23 MacBooks, 14 iPhones and 9 iPod Touches in 31 seconds. Watch 6ABC coverage below.

• Our Most Trafficked Story of the Week: TNT: The state of hyperlocal online news in Philadelphia

Every Friday morning, we make sure you didn’t miss anything with Friday Tech Links.

"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.

At the evening’s peak, crowded around the upstairs bar, copies of the game, Tattooed Mom merchandise, gift certificates and posters were raffled off — according to XBox video game names given to guests at the door — and three dozen signature tasty treats from the Open Source Cupcake girls were cleared from tin pans.

See more photos from the bash here.

Two pool tables buzzed, and, inexplicably, the “Blue Robot” mixed drink specials seemed to carry more vodka as the night went on.

“Everyone here had a great time and really enjoyed the event and the crowd — what a crowd — that showed up for it,” said Tattooed Mom owner Robert Perry.

The event saw a healthy slice of the region’s video game scene, like Chris Grant, editor-in-chief of gaming-mega-blog Joystiq, members of the Videogame Growth Initiative crew and a locally-based Timegate developer who worked on the Section 8 game.

Other members of Philadelphia’s Web 2.0 and social media communities made appearances, including Ben Kessler of popular food blog Unbreaded and IndyHall co-founder Alex Hillman, among others.

The staff of Geekadelphia.com and the night's co-hosts, including the site's co-founder and editor Eric Smith, third from left.

Special thanks are owed to Perry and the entire staff of Tattooed Mom, Eric Smith, the co-founder and editor of Geekadelphia,  his entire crew, our Timegate sponsor, and, of course, everyone who attended. We hope this to be just the first of many events thrown for and with the community.

So what didya think? How can we do better? How good were those Blue Robot specials?