Rochester, NY

I will be speaking at this conference and am very jazzed about this opportunity! w00t :) - Susan Beebe

$170! - Benjamin Golub

I have a discount code - please use the code SmcRoc09 for a 10% discount when registering. - Susan Beebe

"Middle America Coming Out of the Recession? Of the 20 strongest metro areas in the United States, 14 lie between the Mississippi River and New Mexico. By: Keaton Gray Published July 1, 2009 Buzz up! EMAIL THIS ARTICLE PRINTER FRIENDLY COMMENT ON THIS ARTICLE BUY A REPRINT AddThis Although every metropolitan area has suffered job losses and a decline in gross metropolitan product, city centers in Texas and Oklahoma, among others, look as if they will lead the way out of the recession. Judged by changes in employment, GMP, and housing prices, none of the 20 strongest overall performers extends west of Albuquerque, New Mexico. California alone is home to seven of the 20 weakest performers. There's a "last-in, first-out" effect here, says Alan Berube, a senior fellow and research director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program and MetroMonitor report that assesses the nation's 100 largest metro areas. "This recession is battering the interior west, Florida, and the manufacturing... more... - Susan Beebe from Bookmarklet

See full MAP here ---> http://www.brookings.edu/metro... - Susan Beebe

"It's a beautiful example," says Adam Frank of the University of Rochester, New York. - Chris Olin from Bookmarklet

Rochester is getting a Chipotle. - Benjamin Golub from Bookmarklet

This should (I think) update daily (hourly?) with weather updates. - Benjamin Golub from Bookmarklet

"In February 2009, Twestival leveraged the Twitter (Twitter) audience to raise more than $250,000 in the most ambitious Twitter fundraising event to date. (The event was a major inspiration for the Summer of Social Good, a three month charity campaign currently running here at Mashable (Mashable).) Tonight at #140conf, the two-day Twitter conference in New York, Twestival organizer Amanda Rose announced the launch of the group’s next event: “Twestival Local” takes place on September 12th and encourages local groups of Twitter users to host events in aid of their favorite charities. Registration will be open from July 1st. Rose also announced that Twestival 2010 will be held on February 12th of that year." - Susan Beebe from Bookmarklet

That is so amazing! Have you seen this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Jenny Cisney

"Dr. Chunlei Guo at the University of Rochester has developed a method of altering the properties of metal so that it will even help water defy gravity. The trick is in changing the metal using a laser,but not just any laser – a femtosecond laser. Dr. Guo is a professor of optics at the University of Rochester. He and his assistant, Anatoliy Vorobyev have been experimenting with the effect that a femtosecond laser has on metal. He has changed the color of such metals as Platinum, silver and aluminum by changing the properties of the metals using the laser. The femtosecond laser works as follows: …a femtosecond laser, produces pulses lasting only a few quadrillionths of a second—a femtosecond is to a second what a second is to about 32 million years. During its brief burst, Guo’s laser unleashes as much power as the entire electric grid of North America does, all focused onto a spot the size of a needlepoint…. The laser causes the surface properties of the metal to change by forming... more... - Susan Beebe from Bookmarklet

Register now --> http://pmirochester.org/Events... - Susan Beebe

@Quick37 http://GettingThereCoach and @AGrismore http://Croop-LaFrance.com will be there, along with TekSystems. - Susan Beebe

Follow @PMI_Rochester on twitter to get updates http://twitter.com/PMI_Roc... - Susan Beebe

"Changing the Culture of Public Discussion and Debate The mission of ACT Rochester is to stimulate community solutions to our most critical challenges by changing the culture of public discussion and debate. This will be achieved through focused, independent and objective measurement of key community indicators, through diverse and timely dialogue and by promoting results-oriented actions. ACT Rochester is a collaboration of Rochester Area Community Foundation and the United Way of Greater Rochester. We developed the Website together, along with assistance from the Center for Governmental Research, and plan to sustain and update it as a central component of ACT Rochester. We hope that the comprehensive data and other information contained here will serve as a focal point for formal and informal community forums and inspire you and others in the community to share comments and participate in polls, which will be added to the Website in the coming months. In addition, we will be... more... - Susan Beebe from Bookmarklet

"Mulcahy to retire; Burns to take over as Xerox CEO By ANDREA DECKERT Rochester Business Journal May 21, 2009 Ursula Burns, Xerox Corp.’s president, will replace Anne Mulcahy as CEO this summer. The company announced Thursday morning Mulcahy will retire from the post and the change will be effective July 1. Mulcahy is to remain chairman. Burns was named president and elected to the company’s board in April 2007. She had been president of the firm’s $12 billion Business Group Operations prior to that and Xerox’s top executive in Rochester. She started at Xerox in 1980 as a mechanical engineering summer intern. Mulcahy became CEO of Xerox on Aug. 1, 2001, and chairman on Jan.1, 2002. Prior to that, she was president and chief operating officer of the company. She began her Xerox career as a sales representative in Boston in 1976. During her 33-year tenure with Xerox, Mulcahy has held senior management positions in sales, human resources and marketing, and led the Xerox business division... more... - Susan Beebe from Bookmarklet

Wegmans switches colors on butter. This confused me a few nights ago too. Why bother? - Benjamin Golub from Bookmarklet

I wonder if the color of the text on the inner wrappers will match the red/blue on the outer packaging. - Nathan Henderson

""New York's senior senator tells News 8 that he doesn't want Rochester used as a guinea pig for Time Warner Cable's new tiered bandwidth system. Sen. Charles Schumer will be in Rochester on Thursday afternoon. He said Wednesday afternoon that the visit is in regards to TWC's plan, and what's being done to stop it. Rochester has been designated as one of two test markets for the tiered billing system. That plan has been revised by TWC since it was introduced at the beginning of April, among a chorus of customer complaints. TWC says the "consumption-based billing" is necessary to address soaring Internet use, which the cable and Internet provider says could cause "brownouts" down the road. The most basic tier of the plan would provider 1 gigabyte per month of Net access for $15, with an extra $2 tacked on for every additional gigabyte. There will be higher-capacity plans ranging from $29 to $75 monthly. Additional usage will be billed at $1 per gigabyte, with overage fees capped at $75 per month." - Susan Beebe

""New York's senior senator tells News 8 that he doesn't want Rochester used as a guinea pig for Time Warner Cable's new tiered bandwidth system. Sen. Charles Schumer will be in Rochester on Thursday afternoon. He said Wednesday afternoon that the visit is in regards to TWC's plan, and what's being done to stop it. Rochester has been designated as one of two test markets for the tiered billing system. That plan has been revised by TWC since it was introduced at the beginning of April, among a chorus of customer complaints. TWC says the "consumption-based billing" is necessary to address soaring Internet use, which the cable and Internet provider says could cause "brownouts" down the road. The most basic tier of the plan would provider 1 gigabyte per month of Net access for $15, with an extra $2 tacked on for every additional gigabyte. There will be higher-capacity plans ranging from $29 to $75 monthly. Additional usage will be billed at $1 per gigabyte, with overage fees capped at $75 per month." - Susan Beebe

""New York's senior senator tells News 8 that he doesn't want Rochester used as a guinea pig for Time Warner Cable's new tiered bandwidth system. Sen. Charles Schumer will be in Rochester on Thursday afternoon. He said Wednesday afternoon that the visit is in regards to TWC's plan, and what's being done to stop it. Rochester has been designated as one of two test markets for the tiered billing system. That plan has been revised by TWC since it was introduced at the beginning of April, among a chorus of customer complaints. TWC says the "consumption-based billing" is necessary to address soaring Internet use, which the cable and Internet provider says could cause "brownouts" down the road. The most basic tier of the plan would provider 1 gigabyte per month of Net access for $15, with an extra $2 tacked on for every additional gigabyte. There will be higher-capacity plans ranging from $29 to $75 monthly. Additional usage will be billed at $1 per gigabyte, with overage fees capped at $75 per month." - Susan Beebe

""New York's senior senator tells News 8 that he doesn't want Rochester used as a guinea pig for Time Warner Cable's new tiered bandwidth system. Sen. Charles Schumer will be in Rochester on Thursday afternoon. He said Wednesday afternoon that the visit is in regards to TWC's plan, and what's being done to stop it. Rochester has been designated as one of two test markets for the tiered billing system. That plan has been revised by TWC since it was introduced at the beginning of April, among a chorus of customer complaints. TWC says the "consumption-based billing" is necessary to address soaring Internet use, which the cable and Internet provider says could cause "brownouts" down the road. The most basic tier of the plan would provider 1 gigabyte per month of Net access for $15, with an extra $2 tacked on for every additional gigabyte. There will be higher-capacity plans ranging from $29 to $75 monthly. Additional usage will be billed at $1 per gigabyte, with overage fees capped at $75 per month." - Susan Beebe

"Great post by my friend Steve Shapiro - Founder of Digsby in Rochester NY "As a Rochester company, we are in tune with a lot of what goes on in our hometown. We don’t usually meddle in local issues but this is a topic we are all passionate about so we wanted share it with all of you. Time Warner Cable announced that it would be switching from a flat monthly rate for Internet access to tiered pricing that is based on consumption. The $29.99 plan will be capped at 10GB of bandwidth and you will be charged $1/GB for any usage beyond that. If you want your good ‘ole unlimited bandwidth Internet access you will end up paying as much as $150 per month! So how much is 10GB anyway? They make it sound like they are only doing this to stop all those software-pirating BitTorrent users. Here is a legitimate use case. If you purchase the high-def version of Quantum of Solace on iTunes, that is a 3.54GB download. Buy three movies in one month and you hit the 10GB limit. Besides the above use case, there are inno" - Susan Beebe

Buy my car! - Benjamin Golub from Bookmarklet

oh thats right, I think I remember you posting about that. cool. - Rachel Lea Fox

Nate Anderson: "But the only favors being done here are to TWC's bottom line. That base rate works out to a truly jaw-dropping $6 per GB per month, and it's so far out of line with competitors' plans as to shock even the most cynical heart." - Ryan Sholin from Bookmarklet

Does anyone else think our city logo a bit drab, unimaginative, imposing, maybe Eastern bloc, or even brutalist, like some of our buildings? - John Lam from Bookmarklet