CMU Robot Tackles An Important Task
Meet HERB (Home Exploring Robotic Butler) who was developed at Carnegie Mellon’s Personal Robotics Lab. HERB has finally tackled an important and difficult problem – how to separate an Oreo Cookie. Thanks to Chris Briem @ NullSpace for sharing this video. Here…
WebKite’s Founder Takes A Look at the State of StartUps in Pittsburgh
The following is a guest post from Eric Silver who is the founder of the Pittsburgh based company WebKite. I have crossed paths with Eric a few times over the past couple of years – coincidentally I think I may…
Yinz Want To Learn About Social Media N’At? 7 Reasons to Attend Podcamp Pittsburgh
If you want to learn more about social media then this is the weekend for you. This Saturday and Sunday is the 7th Annual Podcamp Pittsburgh – a free unconference where social media experts from Pittsburgh and beyond will be…
Add a Little Rick Sebak to Your Photos with Yinztagram
If you follow @IheartPGH on twitter – you know that I am a devoted Blackberry user. I am constantly being asked why I use such a device when I could just “get an iphone.” I am loyal to the…
Check out a Cheese Printer at the Mini Maker Faire
I have been waiting for MakerFaire to come to Pittsburgh for years!!! I have been a follower of Make and Craft – both are magazines/blogs published by O’Reilly Media. The Make magazine folks organized the first Maker Faire in CA…
Would you buy a Pittsburgher a cup of coffee (or a beer)?
This evening, Aldo Coffee (which is located in Mt. Lebanaon) wrote a blog post linking to this post on the blog Coffee Strategies – which is a blog that covers all sorts of interesting things about the coffee business. Coffee…
Test Driving the Chevy Volt – Pittsburgh Auto Show
From Lindsay: Thanks to the folks at Chevy for inviting us to the pre-auto show preview. I have been really impressed at how eager the team at Chevy is to work with local bloggers. They were kind enough to not…
Get Into the Pittsburgh Gigapanorama
On Thursday, September 23 there will be a photo shoot for the 2nd Pittsburgh Gigapanorama – you are invited to participate. The details for Thursday are available here. For the whole story about the project keep reading. Gigapana-What? I promise…
PodCamp Pittsburgh 5 This Weekend!
This weekend, the halls and classrooms of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh will be filled with people who are eager to learn about advances in social media, interact (in real life!) with others in the regional Web 2.0 community, and…
Social Media Share – How Do You Use Social Media for Your Business/Blog/Organization/Non-profit?
Image by biblicone via Flickr Tomorrow I will be a panelist for one of the sessions at the Pittsburgh Craft Collective’s The Business of Craft workshop.I am sitting here at my computer putting together some links and ideas on how…
Punked by Google – Google Fiber a Hoax
Image via Wikipedia So a few weeks ago we blogged about the Pittsburgh goes Google project. Well it turns out that the Google Fiber Network that sounded too good to be true is really too good to be true. The…
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