This weekend’s Budweiser Made in America Festival is bound to be a bit crazy, with an additional estimated 50,000 people crowding the Parkway daily. So here’s an insider’s guide, courtesy of the Police Department and Comcast’s Philly in Focus. The two organizations teamed up to offer a visual mobile map of navigating the masses, using […]

At Baltimore’s first Startup Weekend in April 2011, 23-year-old Nick Miller had an idea: what if people could pay to use someone else’s unused driveway, and what if he got a cut of each transaction? He pitched the idea and met Adam Zilberbaum, 29, a computer programmer at the event. After 54 hours of work, […]

One step inside the Baltimore Node “hackerspace” in Station North, and you’re confronted with a first-generation Makerbot 3D printer huddled next to a massive game cabinet. To the cabinet’s right, Han Solo in carbonite, a mold of a mold of the original Star Wars prop. The far right wall is covered with more tools than […]

Lose the mouse and get up close and personal with the iPad version of Splice from Old City game developer Cipher Prime. Following Splice’s success, Cipher Prime launched Splice: Tree of Life for iPad yesterday. Buy it for $3.99 here. The team is currently at PAX Prime in Seattle showing off Splice, but check out […]

An apparently rare Atari game called Red Sea Crossing was found in a perhaps unlikely place last week: South Philly’s Medium Bob’s Curiosity Shop. (Actually, if you’ve ever been in Medium Bob’s, you’ll know it’s kind of a magical place so this doesn’t surprise us.) Even stranger, the shop’s owners found the game a few […]

Blogger’s cop-killer support page removed from Facebook [Philadelphia Daily News]  The blogger in question is Joshua Scott Albert, who used to run a Philly food gossip blog called StaphMeal. D.A.: Anti-police blogger to face charges [Philadelphia Daily News] This is huge, says Mixmaster Mike [Philadelphia Inquirer] In a story about this weekend’s Made in America concert series, comes […]

Growing the pie, a conversation with Tom Kuegler [CityBizList]: “Any ecosystem works because all its pieces function together.” (Be sure to read our interview with Tom Kuegler.) Fresh Relief for Baltimore’s Food Deserts [Bloomberg Businessweek]: “[Baltimarket] allows shoppers to order groceries online from home or attend sessions at a local public library where they can receive […]

How can KEYSPOT's more than two dozen organizational partners keep their programs going? They might need to break up to find out.

Code for America’s Philly fellowship might be winding down, but the organization won’t drop its connection to Philadelphia. Code for America just announced the local captains for its national civic hacking network called the Brigade. Philly’s Brigade captain is a familiar face: Chris Alfano, one of the founders of Northern Liberties web dev shop Jarv.us […]

Readers, if you’ve got a truckload of Twitter followers but don’t know what to do with them, here’s an idea: cash ’em in. That’s the idea behind SocialLadder. A mobile app from local startup RKI Apps that was presented at July’s Philly Tech Meetup, SocialLadder aims to connect businesses with influential customers by rating a […]