Introducing Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup. Here, we’ll parse out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along with the Startup Roundup’s dedicated RSS feed. If you’ve got news to share, get in touch.

DEFINITE READS

LTL Prints has been racking up partners weekly, according to the deluge of press releases we get, but that’s why not why we’re playing this one. The Old City-based wall graphics company has an interview with Twitter’s Fail Whale creator — and LTL featured artist — Yiying Lu. It’s not about failure at all:”I wanted to create a visual greeting – a visual ‘comfort’ for my friends back home for all the events that I was missing,” Lu says. Check it out if not for the story, for the original sketches.

Conshocken-based biotech firm NuPathe — read our Q&A with the company, which is developing a migraine treatment patch, here — has set the terms for the debut of its initial public offering, at between $14 and $16 per share, hoping to raise $75 million with the offering.

We’re way psyched to see this one come through the pipeline: ZVRS, a company which is taking advantage of iPhone 4′s Facetime to provide translation services for the hearing impaired launched launched at Hard Rock in Center City. Remember that, ahem, social entrepreneurship thing here in Philly we’ve been writing and talking with folks about? Yeah, cough. It’s happening.

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DreamIt Ventures graduate SeatGeek, now based in New York, raised $1 million in funding this week while on the other side of the Technically Philly world — in our Venture Capital Roundup — DreamIt organizers are defending DreamIt’s success, though a a Forbes story last week questioned it.

myYearbook‘s got a few new partners for its real-time Chatter web app, a Twitter clone, that maybe does Twitter a little smarter than Twitter. It’s offering businesses a 100,000 fans guarentee. Anywho, Got Milk, Six Flags and MTV drank the kool aid, according to a press release. And geez, those numbers. Got Milk—that’s right, the one you know and love and thought was gone—generated 30,000 comments and 500,000 new fans in less than two months on the teen social network. That’s where the money is, peoples.

RedLasso has partnered with Daylife, an NYC-based company that creates content tools for media companies and brands. Daylife’s got all the buzz lately one would expect of a $15 million-funded company, and RedLasso is excited to be a part of it, providing its partners with greater reach.

ProtonMedia shows off the goods for the forthcoming version 1.5 of ProtoSphere, its virtual reality meeting software. There’s now proxy features for bypassing company firewalls (yo, don’t tell the myYearbook kids about proxies; they already know about ‘em). The software company will also provide the option to bundle the ProtoSphere app on USB drives for mobility. Nice.

Lancaster-based nonprofit fundraising software firm GiftWorks gets featured this morning for its interesting, if not valuable to some, blog platform which offers tips to development leaders on how to raise dollars in the not-for-profit world.

GIVE A GLANCE

Here’s some advice for startups this week, as well. Keep that budget belt tight my friend and take the leap for big growth.

PackLate has announced a partnership with Barefoot Technologies, a browser-based reservation and asset management system, giving the latter real-time booking tech, a direction for PackLate that seems an obvious, if not smart revenue model. We really want to book a trip with PackLate, but damned us if that isn’t a conflict of interest.

As if Venmo needed anymore credibility, now London is all over their mobile payment jawn.

Startup Roundup will post weekly on Wednesdays until there’s not a Philly startup story left to link to on the Internet. See others here.

Introducing Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup. Here, we’ll parse out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along with the Startup Roundup’s dedicated RSS feed. If you’ve got news to share, get in touch.

DEFINITE READS

Radnor’s QlikTech launched its initial public offering last week, selling 11.2 million shares at $10 each, an initial market capitalization of $940 million, Seeking Alpha reports [h/t/ PhillyTechNews]

We love this. Local Laan Labs has created an augmented reality soccer game that lets you use an iOS4 camera to kick a ball around. Great for soccer wanna-be’s.

MIGHT BE WORTH YOUR TIME

Motivas Mobile announced this morning that it has raised $3 million from private investors for beefing up its mobile technology. We reported in March that it was nearly a third of the way through a 2.7 million round of fundraising.

Venmo founders Andrew Kortina and Iqram Magdon Ismail were featured on Inc.com’s 30-under-30 feature. See our coverage of the Rittenhouse-based mobile payment startup.

Local design firm Happy Cog, which wrote the book on web standards, has published a case study on a redesign/refresh of Zappos.com.

Yunno, a DreamIt Ventures company focused on creating social media campaigns built around contests has launched, a blog post says.

GIVE A GLANCE

RedLasso has announced that it is utilizing Adap.tv‘s video ad serving platform for its clipping service.

Monetate announced yesterday that is has appointed Kevin Ertell — Borders.com and Tower Records e-commerce veteran — to its advisory board.

myYearbook‘s Trends blog shows that the majority of teens aren’t aware of Facebook’s privacy issues and don’t care anyway. Insight: We already knew teens were apathetic.

MyDunkTank is featured in the Philadelphis Business Journal earlier in July. Be sure to see our coverage from mid-June.

Startup Roundup will post weekly on Wednesdays until there’s not a Philly startup story left to link to on the Internet. See others here.

Lancaster security cameras on the streets are monitored by civilians working for a nonprofit group. They pan, zoom and call police if they see a crime. Linda Johnson / For The L.A. Times

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.

You’re probably being watched in Lancaster.

This city of 54,000 in the middle of a rural county of the same name just may be the most closely scrutinized place in the country, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times.

As many as 165 closed-circuit TV cameras that will soon bring constant live surveillance of very nearly every street, park and other public space. That would be more outdoor cameras than cities as large as Boston and San Francisco.

Two more things are unique about the camera network, as the L.A. Times story suggests: it was built and maintained by a private nonprofit group and few seem concerned about the privacy implications.

The group, which hires civilians to move and follow the cameras and dispatch police to suspiscious activity, hasn’t found much public outcry.

“Years ago, there’s no way we could do this,” said Lancaster’s police chief Keith Sadler told the Times. “It brings to mind Big Brother, George Orwell and ’1984.’ It’s just funny how Americans have softened on these issues.”

There is some question as to the effectiveness of cameras, though. In what the Times report calls the largest U.S. study, US Berkeley researchers evaluated 71 cameras that San Francisco put in high-crime areas beginning in 2005. In December, they released a report that found “no evidence” of a reduction in violent crime, though it did note “substantial declines” in property crime near the cameras.

Hat Tip Philly Tech News.

After the jump, the continued spat over a state film tax credit, robot-loving high schoolers and eight more of the week’s tech stories you shouldn’t miss, including our best read story of the last seven days.

In order of importance for your ease.

• The San Jose Mercury News reports that a study from the Association for Computing Machinery released last week, says a sizable gap in technology interest remains between boys and girls. Forty-five percent of 13-17 year old boys thought a computer science degree would be “very good,” compared to just one in ten girls.
• Geekadelphia reports on a recently released free iPhone application that helps you find upcoming concerts in Philadelphia. They can be searched by date and venue, and include features that locate venues, offer audio samples from performing bands and sell tickets.
• Inquirer film critic Carrie Rickey reports that with the state budget deadline next week and a lingering $3.2 billion deficit, a real debate remains regarding Pennsylvania’s $75 million film industry tax credit. The film credit is never broached in Philadelphia without the mention of Shooters, the tech-savvy Old City production company we profiled earlier this year. Relatedly, the Inquirer reported on the first ever Philadelphia Film Market.
• Information Week rags on Northern Liberties marketing firm Razorfish pretty harshly for what it asserts to be an outdated Web strategy. As Philly Tech News suggested: ouch.
• PE Hub reports on $2 million in new VC funding and what that means for a possible resurgence from RedLasso, the King of Prussia-based video-aggregation site. Check the SEC filing here, and read an interview we did with the firm’s CEO and president in March.
• A pun-heavy press release alerts us to the fact that TastyKake Baking outsourced the hosting and management of its voice and data networks to EvolveIP during their headquarters move to the Naval Yard. We covered EvolveIP last month.
• The Associated Press reports that the Italian trial against four Google executives has been postponed. The executives, who are accused of defamation and violating privacy for hosting a video that showed the abuse of an autistic youth, say the trial a threat to Internet freedom.
• The Inquirer reports on the trend of regional high schools adding FIRST robotics curriculum to encourage the study of engineering and related fields. The acronym FIRST means “For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology.”

• Our Most Trafficked Story of the Week: Google confirms Street View tricycle on UPenn campus, reader snaps first pictures

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

A slew of big names were named to the advisory board of the Philadelphia Chapter of the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship to Youth.

All told, 13 new members were appointed, including former RedLasso CEO Kenyon Hayward, RoseAnn B. Rosenthal, the longtime president of Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania, and Temple University President Ann Weaver Hart, according to a press release.

The regional incarnation of the New York City-based nonprofit is headquartered at Temple and follows the group’s mission of providing entrepreneurship education programs to young people from low-income communities.

Other members named to the advisory board include Douglas A. Alexander, president of the Internet Capital Group and former chief of Linkshare and Traffic.com; Peter J. Boni, CEO of Safeguard Scientifics, and Milan Patel, the chief of global technology firm ACS International Resources.

The other members are Andrew Jordan, an assurance partner with Ernst & Young; Andrew Kaplan, a financial adviser with UBS Financial Services; Carolyn Oakley Lowe, the managing director of DHR International’s Philadelphia office; Chris Pavlides, an associate professor of entrepreneurship at Temple University’s Fox School of Business; Steve Sanders, co-founder of First Genesis Financial Group; Sally Solis-Cohen, the director of business development for the eastern division of Vistage International and Kathleen Thomas, senior vice president for Bank of America’s global commercial bank.

Hayward of RedLasso, Rosenthal of BFTP, Weaver-Hart of Temple and Solis-Cohen of Vistage all live in Philadelphia. The others are from the ‘burbs.

Since 1987, NFTE claims to have reached more than 230,000 young people and trained more than 4,200 certified entrepreneurship teachers. NFTE currently has programs in 22 states and 13 countries.

Staff writer Brian James Kirk contributed to this report.