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Phthisis Diagnostics, LLC raises $450,000 in a highly competitive funding market. Dr. Crystal Icenhour, President and Director of Research, lead her team to success in attracting the interest of several Angel investment groups. The following is an excerpt of the official press release:Phthisis Diagnostics Raises $450,000 Series A Funding Round Charlottesville, VA - (April 26, 2011) - Phthisis

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If you didn't have the chance to attend the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council recently, you missed a great opportunity to learn how crowdsourcing can be used in business consulting. Kyle Hawke, co-owner of Whinot, discussed how crowdsourcing can be used to match small business clients with a team of qualified consultants to resolve business problems/issues. It provides a flexible

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It's that time of year when thoughts turn to getting ready for school, specifically, buying a computer to take to college. Some interesting data has recently been collected and published regarding first year college students and their computer choice. The battle between PC and MAC continues but it seems clear that MACs are gaining ground.The University of Virginia's Information Technology &

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The University of Virginia's Darden Incubator program is having a very busy summer. It is the largest group since the program began - 18 companies!Kyle Hawke, co-founder of Whinot.com, is one of the participants in the program. I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Kyle to find out life as a "start-up" -1. Explain your business in term your mom would understand.Whinot.com is a web

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The American Society of Microbiology held their 110th General Assemble meeting in San Diego, California last week. The meeting was attended by national and international researchers, clinicians, and companies committed to improving clinical and environmental microbiology issues.One of Forbes' America's Most Promising Companies, Phthisis Diagnostics, LLC, had a significant showing at the

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Once again the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council (CBIC), membership and community, came together for the 12th Annual Awards dinner on June 2, 2010. Gregory Fairchild, Director of the Tayloe Murphy Center at the Darden School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. Fairchild spoke about the key elements necessary in creating a successful commercial enterprise -

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A recent graduate from Albemarle High School and the University of Virginia developed some very innovative technology re-purposing and modifying an ink-jet printer for medical use. Featured in the May 17, 20010 Charlottesville Business Journal, Kyle Binder has been working on a device that one day will "print" skin cells onto burn patients. The process, "bioprinting" has the potential of cutting

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If it is Spring then it must be time for the University of Virginia's 2nd Annual Venture Summit. The Summit, scheduled for March 25 - 26, 2010, will bring together UVA's key thought-leaders on forefront topics, fascinating discussions with venture capitalists and researchers, and relationship-building opportunities with the University.With the recent opening of UVA's i.Lab this week, UVA and

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On March 19, 2010, the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business and the Batten Institute will officially open its new Innovation Laboratory. Opening ceremonies can be viewed with a live video stream at www.darden.virginia.edu/iLab beginning at 1:00PM EST. The state-of-the-art i.Lab learning environment inspires a new approach to teaching innovation and entrepreneurship,

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Bubble Wrap - we pack with it, play with it, design with it, wear it - the list is endless. Like many new innovations, Bubble Wrap did not start out as the familiar wrap that we know today. In the late 1050's, Marc Chavannes and Al Fielding were asked to develop a new type of textured wall paper. Unfortunately, the idea never got traction until one day its protective qualities were noticed.So

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The sum is greater than its parts is still meaningful in a cut-and-paste world.Matt Linderman of 37Signals has a thought-provoking piece on Cherry-picking - taking the best or most obvious characteristic out of context. Scientists keep trying to isolate the part of a carrot that makes it healthy. They have identified 15 carotenes in the carrot, yet the resulting carotene pills don’t produce the

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Hello Teresa A. SullivanThe University of Virginia announced today that the Board of Trustees unanimously elected Teresa A. Sullivan to serve as the 8th President of UVA. John T. Casteen announced last summer that he would step down as president at the end of his 20th year.We wish Sullivan and

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There are so many accomplished and entrepreneurial artisans in Charlottesville, Virginia. Two sisters, Jessica and Sarah Partain, use polymer clay to create miniature replicas of food for jewelry. Their creations, at Inedible Jewelry, include charms, earrings, cufflinks, and bracelets.(Their new Cosmopolitan Charm, right) They recently published their first book, The Polymer Clay Cookbook:

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If it is January, then it must be time for the Sundance Film Festival - scheduled this year on January 21 - 31, 2010 in Park City, Utah. The new movie Life 2.0 will be shown at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Having been involved with Second Life for several years, I will be looking forward to reading the reviews.H/T: TechCrunch

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The medical community is focusing efforts on "enhancing patient safety and increasing access to safe, effective and clinically beneficial medical technologies." The Global Harmonization Task Force (GHTF) recently released a four-phase approach for corrective and preventive action programs for device quality management systems, (Proposed Doc SG3(PD)/N18R8) and three documents that form a part of

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It isn't officially winter yet and we have had our first major snow. And what a storm! As of late Saturday, the National Guard was still rescuing stranded motorist on the major Virginia highways. Here are a few snapshots of the snow storm of '09, up to my knees. Nearly two feet of snow in 24 hours, a rarity in Virginia.

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Royal Ahold, the Dutch conglomerate that owns Giant Food, announced Thursday that it is purchasing the Richmond-based supermarket chain Ukrop's Super Markets for $140 million, according to the Washington Post. More from the Richmond TimesDisatch, which noted that "From 1990 to 2007, Ukrop's contributed more than $30 million through annual campaigns, capital gifts, sponsorships, donations and

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Scientists have seen and video taped the eruption of an underwater volcano for the first time. The West Mata volcanic eruption, discovered in May, is nearly 4,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, in an area bounded by Fiji, Tonga and Samoa. It is producing boninite lavas, believed to be among the hottest on Earth in modern times, and a type seen before only on extinct volcanoes more

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The Twitter blog includes a list of top Twitter Trends of 2009. Swine flu, Michael Jackson, the Iran election, Susan Boyle and Harry Potter top the lists, along with Google Wave and the Super Bowl.

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H/T to Greg.org for links and comments on The Known Universe on YouTube just released by the American Museum of Natural History.The Digital Universe from the Hayden Planetarium.

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RichTech, the Greater Richmond Technology Council, hosted a panel discussion recently on IT issues for the coming year, the 2010 Forecast.Cyber security likely will be the focus of information technology executives in 2010, a panel of experts said during a RichTech discussion yesterday. Cyber security is paramount at [Dominion Virginia Power], but the return on investment doesn't necessarily grow

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IN VIVO's second annual 2009 Deal of the Year will be announced in January. They note that the recent Pfizer's recent settlement with the US government for $2.3 Billion perhaps doesn't even count as business development, let alone Big Pharma Deal, M&A or Exit Financing (The competition categories), but that it is by far the largest of a series of recent settlements in the industry. (See the 2008

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For the first time, Google has announced a Most Watched list of YouTube videos. No surprise, the most watched video was Susan Boyle on Britain's Got Talent. (The list is also available on the YouTube blog)

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The International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP) recently published Good Publication Practices (GPP2) in the British Medical Journal. GPP2 is an update of the original 2003 Good Publication Practice (GPP) guidelines. Among the most important areas addressed in GPP2 are the responsibilities of authors, reimbursement and honoraria, recommendations for use of publication

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Thomas Friedman writes in the NY Times that the recession and the Great Inflection are hitting the U.S. economy simultaneously. The Great Inflection is the mass diffusion of low-cost, high-powered innovation technologies — from hand-held computers to Web sites that offer any imaginable service — plus cheap connectivity. They are transforming how business is done. This reminds me of Darden's Dean

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Luna Innovations Incorporated (NASDAQ: LUNA) announced that it has executed a Settlement Agreement with Hansen Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: HNSN) resolving the outstanding litigation between the companies.Luna has filed with the bankruptcy court its First Amended Joint Plan of Reorganization and other bankruptcy documents to implement the Settlement Agreement and allow the Company to emerge from

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The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is set to fly on December 15, weather permitting. More from FastCompany, The PalmettoScoop, and Popular Science.UPDATE: The Seattle Post Intellingencer and Bloomberg on the successful maiden flight of the Dreamliner.The Airbus A400M military transport plane finally flew on December 11, according to Navel Open Source Intelligence (includes a short video of the maiden

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The VISTA (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy ) telescope, just began operating out of the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in the Chilean desert.Here is the first image of the Flame Nebula (right)H/T: Popular Science, and Alpha Galileo

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NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is set to launch today from Vandenberg Air Force Base in CA. From its eventual orbit 325 miles above earth, it will begin a blitz of picture-taking with equipment of unprecedented sensitivity. WISE will map the heavens on four infrared channels, frequencies of long-wave radiation that are invisible to the human eye and many telescopes. The

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There are several reminders online that Sunday night (Dec 13 - 14) will be a good time to see the Geminid Meteor Shower.They include Discover, the Royal Observatory blog, Bautforum, Forum NetworkUPDATE: 2009 Geminid Meteor shower photo from National Geographic, taken in Monument Valley, Utah.

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The Charlottesville First Night buttons are on sale now, with advance purchases discounted online. First Night Virginia transforms the downtown mall into a New Year's Eve extravaganza with up to 70 performances of music, magic, movies, storytelling, comedy and dance. Now in its 28th year, this great event draws people from Charlottesville and across the region to celebrate with the entire

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There are two special Christmas concerts in the Charlottesville area this weekend. The Virginia Glee Club, the oldest musical organization at the University of Virginia, brings its 69th Annual Christmas Concert to the historic Paramount Theater on Saturday, December 12, 2009 at 8 pm. The Virginia Consort, which performed in Cville last week, presents a second Christmas concert in Nellysford on

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Paul Graham's recent essay, Apple's Mistake takes Apple to task for their broken App Store approval process, and the impact this has on programmers and developers.MG Siegler at TechCrunch has a different perspective, noting that Apple's tight control of its ecosystem helped build the store.

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Charlottesville-based WellAWARE Systems develops next-generation wellness monitoring solutions for the full continuum of senior care including Home Health, Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care and Skilled Nursing. The company partners with a number of organizations involved in caregiving. The company recently announced $7.5 m in a new round of funding from Valhalla Partners and .406

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The Virginia Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a conference in Richmond today on Virginia's energy. The Virginia Conference on Economic Leadership begins this morning. Preston Bryant, Virginia Secretary of Natural Resources, and Lt. Governor Bill Bolling will be speaking later today.

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Google presented new real-time, mobile and social search innovations at the Computer History Museum recently. On Friday afternoon, Google made the biggest change that has ever happened in search engines, and the world largely yawned. Maybe Google timed its announcement that it was personalizing everyone’s search results just right, so few would notice. Source: Search Engine LandHere's Danny

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Dale Dougherty of O'ReillyRadar has a new piece looking back to the 1980 paper by Semour Papert, Lessons We Don't Learn. By no means do I believe that computers are the only thing needed to improve education but Papert was so right nearly thirty years ago in recognizing the potential for computers (and networks) to break down all kinds of barriers, and to open doors to opportunity. Dougherty

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The NY Times interview with Jeff Bezos about eBooks and Kindle is certainly worth a read. He notes that Amazon is already selling 48 Kindle editions for every 100 copies of a physical book they sell, and that they have 350,000 Kindle titles available.H/T: GigaOm

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The University of Michigan Mobile Phone Ensemble (below) will perform December 9. This is a new music ensemble using mobile smart phones as primary musical instruments. Similar mobile phone orchestras are active at Stanford MoPhO (the original ensemble), Helsinki MoPhO, and Berlin MoPhO.H/T: Wired

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Serial entrepreneur Gurbaksh Chahal, founder of BlueLithium, recently launched gWallet, "the next generation virtual currency platform" with $10m in first round funding. (gWallet blog)San Francisco-based gWallet, formed in September, wants to revolutionize virtual currency by bringing ethical standards and operating guidelines for such transactions to promise a better environment for consumers

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Charlottesville's nonprofit organizations continue to provide essential services to the region, despite the fundraising difficulties related to the recession. There are photos and interviews from the Charlottesville event marking National Philanthropy Day available here.Cristine Nardi, executive director of the region’s Center for Nonprofit Excellence, said a challenging economy often lessens

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The exhibit at New York University, "The Lost World of Old Europe", displays artifacts from a recently identified Lower Danube Valley culture dating back to 5000 B.C. The show catalog, published by Princeton University Press, is the first compendium in English of research on Old Europe discoveries.The NY Times article, and slideshow from the exhibit.

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Commemorating the 40th anniversary of Arpanet, DARPA will launch 10 red balloons this morning, and is seeking to test how the internet, crowdsourcing, and social networking can help solve broad-scope, time-critical problems. The winner of the DARPA Network Challenge gets $40,000. The balloons will be in ten fixed and accessible locations that are visible from nearby roads. Source:

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The University of Virginia recently announced the new Accelerated Master's Program for Veterans in Systems Engineering.(CNN Money on Systems Engineering in November 2009)From UVA Today:The veterans program will use a graduate engineering and business hybrid curriculum developed by faculty from the Engineering School and U.Va.'s Darden School of Business."We saw an opportunity to help veterans

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In anticipation of its 350th birthday in 2010, the Royal Society has launched a new web site, Trailblazing, making 60 historic papers available online.(The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge Wikipedia article)From the Royal Society Announcement: Trailblazing will offer unprecedented public access to the most influential, inspiring and intriguing papers published by

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The University of Virginia has joined the ranks of more than 100 universities that partner with Zipcar to provide alternate transportation with hourly car rentals. According to UVA Today, the program launched in mid-November with six vehicles. Additional information on the UVA Zipcar program.

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The cost of providing the gifts detailed in the Twelve Days of Christmas has been announced by PNC Financial Services Group for 2009. And it turns out that the PNC Christmas Price Index remains higher, thanks to a significant drop in the price of a Partridge in a Pear Tree, Five Gold Rings, and Seven Swans back in 1995. The Christmas Price Index, up for 2009, does exceed the US Consumer PRice

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Cyber Monday (coined in 2005) sales appear to have been in line with Black Friday retail sales online, according to several sources, including Investors Business Daily, GigaOm, and Seeking Alpha.Experian Hitwise statistics indicated that Amazon again topped the most-visited retail site for Cyber Monday, followed by Walmart, Target, BestBuy and JC Penny, according to the Washington Post. The NY

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Richmond-based Intelliject, Inc. recently announced an exclusive license with sanofi-aventis U.S. for a novel epinephrine auto-injector, in the U.S. and Canada territory. Intelliject, Inc. was founded by twins Evan and Eric Edwards in response to their own life-threatening allergic reactions and their need for an effective epinephrine delivery system.Intelliject's unique model - drug development

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You're the Boss has an interesting piece on the emerging Pay-to-Pitch events being sponsored by VCs, such as that sponsored by Boston-based Revolutionary Angels, who charge start-ups nearly $5,000.Although some VCs indicate that the networking, advice and counsel they offer during these events is more than worth the entry fee, Paul Graham of YCombinator would probably disagree, since he provides

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Copyright Watch, hosted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a "user-friendly resource of national copyright laws to help citizens of the world undertake comparative research". Balanced and well-calibrated copyright laws are extremely important in our global information society. The smallest shift in the legal balance between the rights of copyright owners and users of copyrighted knowledge

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Black Friday online sales rose 11% this year, indicating strong growth in retail online sales for the holidays, according to several sources. “Black Friday, better known as a shopping bonanza in brick-and-mortar retail stores, is increasingly becoming one of the landmark days in the online holiday shopping world,” said comScore chairman, Gian Fulgoni.Sources: ComScore, WSJ MarketBeat, Digital

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Steve Blank's piece on Closure is priceless - who else can say they bought an old Cray supercomputer on eBay, and "had the only farm capable of nuclear weapons design." Don't miss his thoughts on hard work, failure, and closure.

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George Washington’s 1789 Thanksgiving ProclamationWhereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me “to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and

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The Open Web Foundation, launched at the 2008 OSCON, recently announced the Open Web Foundation Agreement 0.9. The Open Web Foundation was founded to help developer communities collaborate and share technical innovation on the web, bringing to the world of formats and protocols the same successful grassroots approaches established by the open source community. Modeled after the Apache Software

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On Friday, two graduate students at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science, Adam Malcom and Scott Kasen, took home the first UVA Cup for their inflatable life saving belt, and received a $20,000 start-up grant. Earlier, their belt design took the first prize in the 2006 international design competition sponsored by the US Foundation for Boating Safety. Second place,

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The 2009 Rhodes Scholars include UVA graduate Tyler Spencer of Staunton, who has been working to improve the everyday lives of the sick and disabled. Spencer is head coach of the National Deaf Tennis Team and serves as the executive director of a nonprofit that trains top athletes as HIV/AIDS educators in Washington's schools. He plans to study evidence-based social intervention at Oxford

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Jay Goltz continues the discussion about the Chicago furniture business created by Debbie Dusenberry with The Accounting Paradox in response to comments about the need for entrepreneurs to pay more attention to financial accounting. He is certainly not alone in recommending that entrepreneurs pay closer attention to money matters, but he makes the strong point that accounting, no matter how good

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Vivek Wadhwa had a series on TechCrunch in September, beginning with The VC, the Professor and the Valley of Death, in which he discusses the difficulties of translating research into commercial products. Taking these types of hard science discoveries from bench to fab or factory is sometimes very, very hard work that often does require VC capital, fat Rolodexes, and regulatory and industry

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The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) launched Expert Labs yesterday, to take advantage of the wisdom of crowds and experts looking at public policy issues. A non-profit funded by the MacArthur Foundation, Expert Labs will also reach out to VCs and incubators as well to fund contests and support new technologies.H/T: O'Reilly Radar

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Google, The Internet Archive, and Intellectual Ventures have partnered with the US Patent Office for public dissemination of patent information, according to Carl Malamud at O'Reilly Radar. He observes that The patent database is no ordinary database. This is the only database specifically called out in the U.S. Constitution as being the responsibility of the U.S. Executive Branch to run! A lot

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The six-student team from UVA Biomedical Engineering brought home a gold medal from the recent International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition. Team members Joe Bozzay, Maria Fini, Brandon Freshcorn, Rohini Manaktala, Dan Tarjan and Thaddeus Webb began collaborating last spring on manipulating bacteria to absorb arsenic.Here's the full story from UVA Today.In other news from BME

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The New Oxford American Dictionary announced the 2009 Word of the Year recently - "unfriend", a verb meaning to remove someone as a friend on a social networking site. Finalists included "hashtag", "intexicated", "freeium", and "funemployed". See Reuters or PC World for more definitions, and some older Words of the Year.

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Marc Drapeau of O'Reilly Radar has an interesting piece on the recent Audience Conference held in NYC . No tweets, live-blogging, video streaming, Wi-Fi - just people in an audience, and presenters. He notes that having experienced the Audience Conference myself, I can also say that in some situations people are not entitled to break out the social media toolbox, because they will genuinely gain

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One way of looking at how technology advances, or doesn't advance, progress is looking backward to prior technologies. TechDirt points to an article by Steven Pinker in Edge in which he notes:.If social critics started to scrutinize the immediate past and obsolescing present and not just the impending future, our understanding of the effects of technology on intellectual quality would be very

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As YouTube has become a global platform for sharing the news, media organizations have been looking for a good way to connect directly with citizen reporters on our site so they broadcast this footage and bring it to a larger audience. Google announced the new tool, YouTubeDirect this morning.

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The Web 2.0 Ignite NYC conference begins today. Brady Forrest of O'Reilly Radar has the schedule, and links to more information. He will be talking about Burning Man as a tech incubator.BTW, according to Bloomberg, NY manufacturing has expanded for the fourth straight month.

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Local author Jayne Cox has organized a book signing event "Meet the Authors" at Glenmore Country Club on November 18. She recently published A Miracle in Bethlehem, a children's Christmas story that she originally wrote many years ago. A former event planner, she pulled the event together quickly, even finding many local sponsors to help defray the costs. I really appreciate the initiative of

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Students from all corners of the University of Virginia are in the process of submitting their concept plans for consideration for the first UVA Cup Competitions. Here is the current schedule:Nov 6: 2:00 to 5:00pm, Darden Room 130 - Darden Concept Competition Finals: Live PresentationsNov 6: 1:30 to 5:30pm, Darden Room 50 - Darden Healthcare Conference: Live presentation with a panel that

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Central Virginia Wind Energy and Manufacturing (CVAWE), in cooperation with the University of Virginia's Aerospace Research Laboratory, is designing a new turbine to harness wind energy for electricity. The prototype "Blade Runner 5000" is designed for greater efficiency, with blades that rotate on a vertical axis. It is designed for the moderate winds of places like Virginia. CVAWE's Jason Ivey

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The 2009 Mid-Atlantic Bio Conference last week turned out to be a rousing success. The attendees and speakers had plenty of time to mingle and share what is currently happening in biotechnology.Charlottesville-based Phthisis Diagnostics, LLC was one of the emerging companies selected to give a presentation to the attending investors. Crystal Icenhour, PhD, President & Director of Research said "

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Business Week's 2009 Report on Executive MBA programs identified the University of Richmond's program as one of the best for part-time study. The University of Virginia's Darden School of Business was also recognized for it's non-degree executive education program.H/T Richmond BizSense.

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The new Kauffman Foundation report indicates that newly created and young companies are the primary drivers of job creation in the United States. Though perhaps showing some improvement, the Bureau of Labor Statistics update on U.S. employment due out Nov. 6 will likely still show a dismal picture for American workers. Kauffman's analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data showing that companies less

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Large companies, such as American Express and AT&T, have been incorporating their entrepreneurial clients in their marketing these days, to the benefit of both the companies (no celebrity fees) and the entrepreneurs (no market expense), notes Diana Ransom in the WSJ[Tom Mycoskie, founder of TOMS Shoes] says that during public appearances he typically asks his audience whether or not they've

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The Charlottesville Business Innovation Council (CBIC) is co-sponsoring a luncheon with the Albemarle/Charlottesville Human Resources Association on Wednesday, Nov 4.The keynote speaker will be Shawn Boyer, founder and CEO of Richmond-based Snag-A-Job. (Earlier Pyle profile of Boyer)

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The Virginia Film Festival, November 6 through November 8, will launch with Knuckleball and the 1933 Marx Brothers film Duck Soup.Here's the full schedule.

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After several years of shock, New York City is again thick with startups, according to a new Wired article.A major contributing factor in New York’s startup renaissance has been the sub-prime mortgage crisis that surfaced in 2007 and still haunts New York’s financial sector. Hedge fund managers, investment bankers, and others in the financial sector have seen wages cut and jobs disappear, making

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Footnote.com is creating an online US Census records site that allows users to add (but not delete) information for genealogical research, according to their blog. Today Footnote.com announced it will digitize and create a searchable database for all publicly available U.S. Federal Censuses, ranging from the first U.S. Census taken in 1790 to the most current public census from 1930. Through its

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On Saturday, November 7, an Apple Festival will be celebrated at Vintage Virginia Apples, which will include tours, tastings, demonstrations, hayrides and old-fashioned apple butter.The Shelton family loves apples. “We make apple pancakes all the time,” says Chuck Shelton, one of three Shelton sons who retired from full-time employment in North Carolina to manage Vintage Virginia’s apple orchard,

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National Geographic Traveler magazine is featuring the Historic Triangle, Chesapeake Bay and Shenandoah Valley on its list of the world's iconic destinations.Here's the section on Maryland-Virginia Chesapeake Bay, andWilliamsburg, Yorktown, Jamestown and the Shenandoah ValleyH/T PilotOnline.

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Paul Graham's October essay, What Startups are Really Like is focused on the surprises his YCombinator founders reported. He noted that he got one response that everything was actually fairly predictable, but 100 other ones listing surprises.The surprises ranged from the importance and intensity of co-founder relationships to the emotional roller-coaster of startup living to the need to launch

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The 2009 Mid-Atlantic Bio Conference will be show casing 24 companies from Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia. Five Charlottesville companies are among the 24 companies that will be presenting. They include OpenQ and HemoShear in Showcase Track, and ADial Pharmaceuticals, ContraVac, EpiEP, and Phthisis Diagnostics LLC in Emerging Growth Track.The Conference is

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On the heels of their new agreement with ZyGem Corp. Ltd., Dr. Crystal Icenhour, President and Director of Research of Phthisis Diagnostics, LLC, will be presenting at the Mid-Atlantic Bio Conference on November 5, 2009. The conference will be held in Washington, DC from November 4 - 6, 2009.The Charlottesville Daily Progress noted that "Charlottesville’s local biotechnology sector will make a

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The EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) recently released the report on Undergraduate Students and Information Technology for 2009.Here are the Key Findings (pdf file), and the full study. This year students were asked for the first time about emergency notification systems on campus - they preferred text messaging.Professors will be gratified to hear that In their responses to the

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I've followed Unsung Designers for several years now, and I'm glad to see custom fashion web sites emerging in Richmond. Here's a piece on the Fashion Playlist blog about the 2005 launch of Unsung Designers by Grace Wang and Alisha Frey. Although there are several excellent custom tailors and dressmakers in Charlottesville, they are nearly invisible online.H/T to Richmond Bizsense for a pointer

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Tim Berners-Lee joined Twitter during the Web 2.0 Summit that just wrapped up in San Francisco.This follows the recent announcement that both Google and Bing have reached agreement with Twitter to make tweets searchable. Here's James Turner's take on these announcements at O'Reilly Radar.

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Phthisis Diagnostics, LLC announced this week that they have entered into an agreement with ZyGEM Corp Ltd. to develop products enabling the detection of infectious pathogens in complex samples, such as stool, blood and water. The collaboration will harness ZyGEM's advanced enzymatic nucleic acid extraction technology and Phthisis Diagnostics' molecular diagnostic expertise to provide fast,

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37 Signals just announced the launch of Haystack, which allows one to browse through images of the work of web designers.Haystack answers three basic questions clients have for web designers:What does your work look like?Where are you located?What is your typical budget range?UPDATE: The first 37Signals podcast, on the development of Haystack.

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E. L. Kersten, founder of Despair, Inc. will be the keynote speaker at the Greater Richmond Companies to Watch on October 29. There's a Despair Demotivation Poster contest leading up to the event, if you are so inclined.On a different note, the event is described as a project developed by the Venture Forum to identify, publicize, and highlight businesses with the ability to become significant

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Charlottesville, Arlington and Alexandria were recognized as Bicycle Friendly Cities in Virginia, according to the League of American Bicyclists report released in October. Arlington has been on the list since 2003, Charlottesville since 2008, and Alexandria is newly recognized this year.Blue Ridge Bicycles in Charlottesville was one of only two Virginia businesses recognized as Bicycle Friendly

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Kathryn writes: I just finished reading Take me With You by Carlos Frías. In addition to being the heart-wrenching story of one extended family, it is an extraordinary story of the entrepreneurial Frías brothers from the countryside who created thriving coffee shops and cafes in Havana, lost it all when they finally managed to escape Cuba in the mid-1960s, and then rebuilt their fortunes with a

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Technorati is releasing the 2009 State of the Blogosphere report this week. Day 1: Who are the Bloggers? cited mainly hobbyists, then part-timers, the self-employed (who are the most frequent users of Twitter as well), and the pros.Day 2: The What and Why of Blogging: "Self-expression and sharing expertise continue to be the primary motivations for bloggers, and 70% of all respondents say that

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Richard Coughlan's recent article on several business schools in Virginia, pointing to the value of a business school in developing the entrepreneurial environment in their communities, is in Richmond BizSense. He also notes that According to BusinessWeek’s most recent rankings, three cities in America are within an hour’s drive of three of the top 30 undergraduate business schools.

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Karen Booth Adams has founded, grown or invested in nine successful entrepreneurial ventures in the past 15 years. In May, she was honored by the Greater Richmond Technology Council as a Community Catalyst. Adams is profiled in a recent Richmond TimesDispatch article.

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It was good to see the New York Times travel article about Richmond VA this morning. They note that "Richmond is strutting with confidence, moving beyond its Civil War legacy and emerging as a new player on the Southern art and culinary scene." I was delighted to see that the Cuban restaurant Kuba Kuba made the list of interesting places to eat.

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The US Department of Energy hosted the Solar Decathlon for three weeks in October. The final results for the 2009 Solar Decathlon are in, and the winner is Team GermanyStory from Inhabitat.

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The interactive map of 50 years of space exploration at the National Geographic is extraordinary. (small screen shot below)H/T: Wired

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Although some people still think virtual goods are "doodads", the market for these goods is already close to $1b. The new report, Inside Virtual Goods by Justin Smith and Charles Hudson, was released on October 14. Smith is keeper of the blogs Inside Facebook and Inside Social Games. Hudson is organizer of the annual Virtual Goods Summit taking place later this month in San FranciscoThe big

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Elinor Ostrom, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics, is a researcher for an international program, Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Collaborative Research Support, managed by Virginia Tech. Her award was based on her work on how community institutions can prevent conflict. She shared the Nobel Prize with Oliver Williamson, a professor at the University of

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The Virginia State Department of Education acknowledged that personal information for some 100,000 adult education students has been lost through transferring the data on an un-encrypted two-gigabyte flash drive.Here's the story from the Richmond TimesDispatch, the Washington Post, and the Threat Post blog.As a side note, the Washington Post article on the $2b project to upgrade the state's

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