How Philly is handling the tech hiring crunch [PODCAST]
In Philadelphia, one startup offered $5,000 to anyone who could refer a new hire. It’s just one example of how the city’s tech companies are handling the hiring crunch, an issue that cities like...
View Article‘Really Good Elevator Music’ project from Yowei Shaw [LISTEN]
Sound can change emotion and stimulate action, so let’s use it for ‘pro-social’ community building. That’s the experiment of ‘Really Good Elevator Music,’ a collection and installation of crafted sound...
View ArticleThis East Falls company built a smart-home device that’s killing it on...
You may not have heard of BuLogics. That’s kind of by design. The East Falls company, which spun out venture-backed startup Zonoff, specializes in building the technology behind “smart” home devices...
View ArticleListen to the Tor Project’s Kate Krauss talk internet privacy on WHYY’s Radio...
Kate Krauss, the Tor Project’s first director of communications, was on WHYY’s Radio Times talking about internet privacy this week. We profiled Krauss on July 16. Listen to the episode below. Krauss...
View ArticleListen to RJMetrics CEO Bob Moore explain the ‘painful’ decision to lay off...
Bob Moore remembers in particular one of the harsher Glassdoor reviews given to his company, RJMetrics. It was something like, “This ship is sinking, find a lifeboat,” he said. Moore remembers it so...
View ArticleThe 4th Annual Philadelphia Podcast Festival kicks off this weekend
If anyone knows how important consistency is, it’s a podcast creator. Growing an audience takes time, a lot of self-promotion and — from time to time — getting a bunch of people together to show them...
View ArticleAllen & Gerritsen built an Alexa skill for Philly’s beer gardens
Year after year, beer gardens in Philly continue to sprout up. With so many locations to choose from, which one do you even choose? To help better connect Philadelphians to local beer gardens, creative...
View ArticleWHYY revamped its website with backing from Bluecadet
Here’s an update you public media geeks out there might have already noticed: WHYY rebuilt its website. It looks good. The new site combined the outlet’s two primary websites — WHYY.org and...
View ArticleBuilding conference rooms for the future
Conference room technology sure has come a long way, baby. It wasn’t all that long ago when preparing to run a meeting could strike fear into the minds and hearts of even the most confident...
View ArticleHow technology is helping Deaf professionals communicate remotely
As a member of the Deaf community himself, Deaf-Hearing Communication Centre (DHCC) Executive Director Neil McDevitt leads his Swarthmore-based organization in finding ways for Deaf individuals to...
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