The 10th best read Technically Philly story of the year focused on broadband adoption in Philadelphia.
What is the end of December if not full of inevitable year in reviews?
We at Technically Philly are always interested in seeing what were the 10 best read stories of the year, so we collected the 2011 batch.
10. Where will broadband competition take Philadelphia?
See the rest of the top 10 below.
How the City of Philadelphia spends $3.5 billion annually should be better visualized online, we say.
The state-empowered Philadelphia Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority (PICA), which is chaired by investor and former mayoral candidate Sam Katz, released in November a citizen’s guide to the City of Philadelphia General Fund that was full of visualizations — all buried in a PDF.
While we shared the document a few weeks ago, after seeing it on PhillyDeals, it seems that it all passed with too little fanfare. While we at Technically Philly would love to work with PICA to develop a friendlier, more interactive web version of this project, we thought we’d start by sharing our 10 favorite of the many charts and graphs detailing where the city government gets its money and how it’s spent.
In addition to the one above, see our 10 favorites below.
Entrepreneurs of today have the distinct advantage of sharing online widely their experiences and thoughts on building businesses.
In Philadelphia, that’s certainly the case, so we at Technically Philly got to wondering just what entrepreneurs are behind the most insightful, helpful, consistent and interesting blogs. So we asked all of you, on Twitter and Facebook.
While we might humbly suggest Technically Philly is a fine resource for Philadelphia entrepreneurial spirit and our reporters tend to share as well, in the spirit of our irregular Top Ten Tuesday feature, we wanted to focus on those individuals who are adding real value to the conversation.
Photo courtesy of the Penn Library
Sixty five years ago today, the first newspaper accounts of the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer hit newsstands.
From the Feb. 15, 1946 New York Times, a page one headline reads: ‘Electronic Computer Flashes Answers, May Speed Engineering’ and its true power is being said to have introduced the modern computer.
Below, we share 10 things about the ENIAC that you really ought to know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, everyone does this. We get it. But, damn it, it’s interesting.
We’ve pulled together a list of our 11 most trafficked stories from 2010.
You can notice things like:
11. Science Leadership Academy: A new model for schools — Feb. 9
Below find our 10 most trafficked posts in 2010.
We’re not one to question the look, feel and design of online presences, but sometimes it’s fun to let other people.
So, over the past couple weeks, we sought your opinion for the ugliest websites in Philadelphia.
Our nominator says: part of an empire of bad templates from a quick hit web design firm in town, as noted by other suggestions. Visit here.
As submitted privately.
Our nominator told us: “Actually had a convo w owner, “You don’t like my logo? I designed it myself!”" Visit here
This 1838 map of Philadelphia from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania didn't make our list of the 10 best maps of Philadelphia.
We love maps.
For hundreds of years, they have helped us better understand our world. That understanding has grown wildly with time and technology, but, still, maps help.
In a place as inwardly focused, we have plenty of maps in Philadelphia. You also may know that we have something of a technology community here.
So there are resources like the Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access, or PASDA, which offers just a wild glut of GIS shape files for mapping geeks. We’ve seen cool mapping tools that are of broader scope though Philly got some love: from the addition of bicycle directions to Philadelphia Google Maps to the Google Building Maker to mapping the homes of those in the U.S. armed services who died in the Mideast this decade and many more.
But we wanted to highlight the coolest maps made for Philadelphia of Philadelphia.
Taking into account our own map obsessions, suggestions and calling out our community, we took on the task of listing, in no particular order, the 10 best online maps of Philadelphia.
Some people count how many friends they have, and some people count the value of their friendships. On social media — and the web generally — we have the same kind of experience.
We can count just about everything online, and so it should surprise no one that as social media has boomed, so too have the comparisons between Facebook friend counts and Twitter followers.
But there’s so often a nuance that raw numbers can’t show.
It’s easy enough to track who are the most followed Twitter users in Philadelphia, but everyone is trying to figure out how those figures measure in influence — or ‘resonance.’ Suppose we want to see who are the biggest Philadelphia voices in the Twitter conversation — not spam accounts with big follower numbers, but those people who you should be following, whose opinions matter and are being heard.
Simply, what Philadelphia Twitter users matter most?
Traffic estimates from Compete.com for Philly.com, NBCPhiladelphia.com and CBS3.com, likely three of the most trafficked websites in Philadelphia. Click to enlarge.
July marks the middle of the calendar year, quarterly reports and time to evaluate progress on yearly goals.
At the beginning of 2010, we looked at 10 competitors and their relative web traffic. With six months done, we wanted to make the first attempt at listing the most trafficked websites in Philadelphia, using monthly unique visitors as the metric of choice.
To make the comparison, we’ve used public traffic website Compete, but, by way of disclosure, we’ll always offer that any public web metrics are notoriously controversial. It’s also important to note that there is often a drag in such traffic estimates being pulled, so the surest figures are from the end of May.
So, consider this a comparative start and nothing more.
Web design firms — from the boutique to the satellite offices — abound in Philadelphia.
They’re into branding and functionality and crafting sleek, sexy, modern websites for the city’s businesses, nonprofits and groups. So, what if a 13-year-old in 1996 had designed their own sites?
We find out by using the meme-worthy Geocities-izer that has made its way around the interwebs lately.
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