Apple Store opening: video, photos and timeline

Two people -- and a police car -- wait outside the Apple Store at 8 a.m. on Saturday, July 31, the day after its official opening and two hours before its second day opening.

Now we can finally drop the Apple Store watch.

As reported and expected, the Apple Store at 1607 Walnut Street near Rittenhouse Square opened Friday late afternoon and did so with much fanfare. Rather than recreate the coverage, we figured we’d offer you a spin through the best.

• Apple Store development timeline — Brownstoner
• Inside the Apple Store photos — Brownstoner
• The Apple of many an eye opening — Inquirer (Good perspective on retail effect)
• The Line for the New Apple Store — Daring Fireball
• That New Store Smell — John Gruber’s Flickr
• Philadelphia finally gets an Apple Store — Fortune (complete with a Philly dig or two)

Below, check out some videos of the opening.

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Seven Philadelphia revolutions, Baltimore Google Czar and More: Links

DEFINITE READS

Inquirer columnist Dan Rubin has a column on the seven Philadelphia revolutions, reminding us just what a legacy of innovation this city can recapture.

The Inquirer reports that the University of Pennsylvania boasts ties to 50 of the world’s 1,011 billionaires.

Below, Baltimore’s ‘Google Czar,’ the region’s job market turn-around and more.

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Links: Pharma’s middle class, IndyHall gaming and more

DEFINITE READS

• Mike Armstrong of the Inquirer writes about the region’s pharmaceutical ‘middle class,’ with between $1 billion and $10 billion in annual sales.

MIGHT BE OF INTEREST

• Keystone Edge has a Q&A with Drew Becher, the new chief of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, discussing his interest in sustainability and technology in the nonprofit’s mission.

Below, a middle-class pharma company gets a little bigger, a 30 Under 30 nod for an e-mail marketer and more.

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Links: Malcolm Gladwell review, redditt interview and More

DEFINITE READS

Our friend at Stubborn Dreams shares a fine roundup of Malcolm Gladwell’s lecture at Penn, which we tweeted out.

MIGHT BE WORTH YOUR TIME

The Inquirer’s Joe DiStefano profiles ListenLogic, a Fort Washington firm that helps companies track what people are saying about them online.

Below, big cuts at a pharma giant and Gabe Weinberg interviewing a social news agggregator.

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Links: Photos from Hive76 event, another Philly-related, big-name merger and More

DEFINITE READS

Geekadelphia shares photos from the Hive76 opening of its new headquarters, which we told you about.

The Philadelphia Business Journal’s Peter Key gives a recap of the Eastern Technology Council’s annual awards gala.

MIGHT BE WORTH YOUR TIME

The Wall Street Journal reports that the FTC has begun a review of Google’s purchase of AdMob, which was founded by a Wharton grad.

The Inquirer’s Joe DiStefano reports that DuPont is itching to buy something.

GIVE A GLANCE

Philly Tech News gives some more information on the Center City Direct digital newsstands venture that we told you about before Thanksgiving.

• Our Most Trafficked Story of the Week: TNT: Historical Society’s interactive PhilaPlace Web site needs your stories

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

Friday Tech Links: Eric Smith, Philly Turkey 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.

• Innovation Philadelphia reports that our local BlobLive was featured by Time magazine.
• Plan Philly profiles popular transit blog SEPTA Watch and its writer Michael Froelich, who also does other fun stuff like the West Philly Tool Library.
• The Philadelphia Examiner has an interview with Eric Smith, the bubbly editor of uwishunu and co-founder of Geekadelphia.
• The Infrastructurist has a very interesting interview with IBM’s new chief of railroad innovation. Fast Eddie Rendell is mentioned, so we had to share.
• Satirical news site Philly Turkey is dead.
• Innovation Philadelphia previews the third annual Success in the City event to be held Aug. 26 by Empowerment Group’s Women’s Business Center.

• Our Most Trafficked Story of the Week: Philadelphia Zoo and Laurel Hill Cemetery get tech exhibits

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

Friday Tech Links: Peirce College head is offline, some columnist writes about Facebook again and More

Updated 5/15/09, 9:14 a.m.: Corrected copy errors.

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.

• The Inquirer reports on the retirement of Arthur Lendo, noted for taking tiny Rittenhouse-based Pierce Peirce College from regional “Oh, I didn’t even realize that was real college” to “if I heard of them it was because of their online education program.” Don’t give him too much credit, though. A Google search of “Pierce College” yields a California school first. ..Bah.

We get some Navy IT, the Flyers soar and three other tech stories you should read  including our most trafficked post of the week.

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Friday Tech Roundup: Cell phone driving ban, Police brutality spread on social media 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.

• The Philadelphia Business Journal reports that the city’s cell phone ban is for real now. After passing City Council last week, it seemed doomed from statewide angst for a municipality creating a varying driving standard. It seems some state funding is still in danger because of the move.

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Friday Tech Roundup: The Bulletin trashes Silicon Valley, Wawa on Facebook 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.

Because that’s what we do best.

• The Bulletin, no seriously, the Bulletin reports on why it would make a lot more sense if the hub of the country’s technology community was Philadelphia, not the Silicon Valley.

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Friday Tech Links: Comcast competes, Indy Hall grows 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.

Because that’s what we do best.

• The Inquirer’s Bob Fernandez rewrites a press release and puts two lanterns in the window, announcing that Verizon is coming; Verizon is coming. The company is upgrading its telephone network in Philadelphia for high-speed FiOS Internet and TV services, and they’re starting in Chestnut Hill.

Below see more stories you need to be sure you saw, including our most trafficked of the week.

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