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The Week in Type Two thou­sand and ten has been some­thing of a blur, but it’s been a good year. It’s been an­oth­er good year for type de­sign and ty­pog­ra­phy, with some great new work, and some won­der­ful new type de­signs. So, to ease you in­to 2011, and the won­ders that await, I pre­sent to you the week in type. New Type Ardoise from Jean François Porchez. Wonderful: A com­pan­ion to Jos Buivenga’s pop­u­lar Calluna has just been re­leased. Calluna Sans is avail­able from MyFonts. The reg­u­lar weight (...)

Bill Gurley’s ex­cel­lent piece on Silicon Valley IPO Anxiety in­spired me to take a com­pan­ion look at the East Coast, par­tic­u­lar­ly Massachusetts and New York, and eval­u­ate the health of the lo­cal IPO econ­o­my and prospec­tive pipeline.  To­day, I'll cov­er Massachusetts; to­mor­row, New York. I first came across Bill when he was a Wall Street an­a­lyst and cov­ered my com­pa­ny Open Market (IPO 1996).  I al­ways ad­mired his per­spi­cac­i­ty, even if he didn’t like our stock all the time!  For pur­pos­es of this (...)

The Spark of Genius Series high­lights a unique fea­ture of star­tups and is made pos­si­ble by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your star­tup con­sid­ered for in­clu­sion, please see the de­tails here. Name: Urban Interns Quick Pitch: Urban Interns is a na­tion­al mar­ket­place that con­nects grow­ing com­pa­nies with peo­ple look­ing for part-time jobs, in­tern­ships and free­lance po­si­tions. Genius Idea: Online job sites date back to the ear­ly days of the web, but most fo­cus on help­ing com­pa­nies (...)

Online ad tech com­pa­ny Undertone has ac­quired dig­i­tal pub­lish­er rep firm WWN. Terms of the deal, New York-based Undertone’s sec­ond in the past past, were not dis­closed. The pur­chase of Paris-based WWN is in­tend­ed to ex­pand Undertone’s glob­al reach, as the com­pa­ny works to evolve from an ad net­work—it dumped the “net­works” part of its name not too long ago—in­to a more gen­er­al on­line ad ser­vices provider to pub­lish­ers and ad­ver­tis­ers. “There’s noth­ing in­her­ent­ly neg­a­tive or wrong with the ad net­work (...)

The web­site FormDs.com has post­ed a very in­ter­est­ing map with a break­down of in­vest­ment dol­lars over the course of the past year. The map caught the eye of Boulder-based ven­ture cap­i­tal­ist Jason Mendelson - not sur­pris­ing­ly, as the map points to Colorado as one of the most en­trepreneuri­al states. FormDs.com bas­es its find­ings on the fil­ings, as the name sug­gests, Form D, an SEC re­quire­ment when star­tups and other pri­vate­ly-held com­pa­nies raise ven­ture cap­i­tal. By track­ing the­se fil­ings, (...)

Jenny An is a Chicago-based writer with a fo­cus on pop­u­lar cul­ture, food and trav­el. Her work has ap­peared in Time Out Chicago and VenusZine. Social me­dia cer­tain­ly has its ben­e­fits for those who love din­ing and drink­ing. From free drinks for Foursquare check­ins, to Twitter no­ti­fi­ca­tions about hap­py hours, to Facebook mes­sages about free food, there’s al­ways some­thing tasty hap­pen­ing on­line. But the so­cial web of­fers a lot more than just dis­counts and deals when it comes to drink­ing and (...)

Architecture pro­ject clear­ing­house and com­mu­ni­ty Architzer is chal­leng­ing ar­chi­tects to make over "New York's worst bath­room." Now, I bet Rickshaw Dumplings founder Kenny Lao's bath­room is far from the "worst" in NYC, but it will be fun to see what cre­ative de­sign­ers do with the tiny space. The win­ner gets $5,000 and get their de­sign built. "Kenny's Bathroom Competition" (Thanks, Ari (...)

Ask any so­cial me­dia maven if he’s in­to FarmVille and he’ll like­ly slap you in the Facebook at the mere men­tion of vir­tu­al agri­cul­ture. Yet Zynga, pur­vey­ors of such feed-clog­ging dig­i­tal crack, just boast­ed of its more than 45 mil­lion dai­ly ac­tive users. Somebody around here is play­ing FarmVille. Yes, I’m look­ing at you, Earl. What’s in­ter­est­ing about mod­ern so­cial games is that we don’t sign up for them with anony­mous han­dles like the old­en days (MoistBoi82, for in­stance). We play them (...)

By Drake Martinet, Associate Editor, All Things Digital Does tea with Silicon Valley ven­ture cap­i­tal­ist Ron Conway and 1990s rap le­gend MC Hammer sound too le­git? What about spend­ing the day har­vest­ing crabs un­der the Golden Gate Bridge? Or may­be a hands-on cof­fee-craft­ing ses­sion with an ex­pert baris­ta? Skyara, a buzzy lit­tle start-up has cre­at­ed a mar­ket­place for peo­ple to sell ex­pe­ri­ences to folks who are look­ing to do some­thing other than the same old thing. “It’s sort of like (...)

Here’s some of the lat­est ac­tion we’re fol­low­ing on the GreenBeat to­day: GE likes ZigBee best for smart ap­pli­ances — GE re­leased a white pa­per yes­ter­day that de­clared ZigBee-based com­mu­ni­ca­tions are best for home area net­works. GE has al­ready adopt­ed the tech­nol­o­gy for its own smart ap­pli­ances, Greentech Media notes. The pa­per al­so eval­u­at­ed WiFi, Bluetooth and pow­er line car­ri­er-based com­mu­ni­ca­tions. Deepwater Wind pro­pos­es 1,000-megawatt wind farm — The am­bi­tious pro­ject would cov­er 270 (...)

When Foursquare raised $20 mil­lion in fund­ing this past sum­mer, its founders took home $4.6 mil­lion of the round. One of them, Naveen Selvadurai, just used some of that money to buy a new apart­ment! His new loft on Broome Street, in New York's SoHo neigh­bor­hood, cost $1.4 mil­lion, ac­cord­ing to the NY Observer. It's a big (1,200 square feet), airy one-bed­room. Looks nice!Click here to see pho­tos of Naveen's loft Join the con­ver­sa­tion about this sto­ry (...)

Lisa Hsia is Senior Vice President of Bravo Digital Media and is ad­dict­ed to Flipboard on her iPad. There’s no ques­tion that the re­al-time con­ver­sa­tions around TV shows on so­cial net­works — the vir­tu­al wa­ter cool­er, if you will — en­hance en­gage­ment and drive on-air rat­ings. Whether it’s the Taylor and Kanye de­ba­cle, the Bad Girls, or the Real Housewives, friends tell friends when things hap­pen on the air, and that vi­ral con­ver­sa­tion turns TVs on. The sig­nif­i­cance of re­al-time par­tic­i­pa­tion is (...)

You'd think a blaz­ing fast wire­less net­work was all good. The 4G (fourth gen­er­a­tion) mo­bile net­work that Verizon Wireless launched Dec. 5 cer­tain­ly qual­i­fies as pret­ty darn zip­py. At least, it was a lot of the time I spent test­ing a 4G lap­top modem in and around New York City. But speed can kill -- your wal­let. PCMag.com found that the 5-gi­ga­byte month­ly data al­lowance on Verizon's least-ex­pen­sive ($50) month­ly plan for 4G could be ex­haust­ed in a mere 32 min­utes at max speeds in its (...)

Federal reg­u­la­tors will ex­plore whether they can do more to pro­tect con­sumers from los­ing their tele­vi­sion sig­nals be­cause of dis­putes over the fees that sub­scrip­tion-video providers pay broad­cast­ers for their pro­gram­ming. Wednesday's an­nounce­ment by the Federal Communications Commission comes on the heels of a high-pro­file spat be­tween Cablevision Systems Corp. and News Corp.'s Fox net­work. That im­passe left 3 mil­lion Cablevision sub­scribers in the New York area with­out Fox pro­gram­ming (...)

You can de­bate whether we’re in a “bub­ble” or sim­ply see­ing “s­torm clouds.” Or per­haps we’re just in the mid­st of some harm­less ex­u­ber­ance, egged on by Facebook and Google’s ap­par­ent will­ing­ness to buy ev­ery­thing, at near­ly any price. All I know is that you def­i­nite­ly don’t see this sort of thing when times are tough: Investors with open check­books, piled in­to a room to show off for start-ups and hop­ing to land the next Twitter, or Foursquare, or Tumblr. Or at least the next GroupMe. That’s the (...)

Tired of cre­at­ing me-too de­signs? Want to escape cre­at­ing de­signs that look too much like others? Looking for a con­stant source of fresh in­spi­ra­tion? Well, you’re in luck, be­cause this is the Beastie Boys guide to more cre­ative de­signs. The Beastie Boys were one of the most icon­ic and fierce­ly cre­ative mu­sic groups from the ’80s and ’90s (and still rock­ing it in the ’00s and be­yond). Ad Rock, MCA, and Mike D had roots in New York punk, be­came a hip-hop group, record­ed land­mark al­bum after (...)

Every year for the last five years I’ve made it a habit to at­tend an an­nu­al din­ner at New York’s Waldorf Astoria hotel host­ed by Mark Anderson, the CEO of Strategic News Service. Stratnews is a newslet­ter that cir­cu­lates to se­nior ex­ec­u­tives of sev­er­al tech com­pa­nies, and Anderson al­so runs a con­fer­ence called FIRE (Future In Review), where Oracle co-President Mark Hurd ap­peared last mon­th. At this din­ner, Anderson gives a speech dur­ing which he makes 10 pre­dic­tions con­cern­ing the tech (...)

The Wall Street Journal is re­port­ing that Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has signed the Giving Pledge, com­mit­ting ­to do­nate the ma­jor­i­ty of his for­tune to char­i­ta­ble or­ga­ni­za­tions. The Pledge, which asks its sign­ers to give away the lion’s share of their wealth dur­ing their life­time, was or­ga­nized by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Wall Street mogul War­ren Buf­fet. Other no­table sig­na­to­ries of the pact in­clude: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, New York may­or Michael Bloomberg, AOL co-founder (...)

The TechAmerica Foundation’s an­nu­al Cybercities re­port cov­er­ing the state of America’s lo­cal tech­nol­o­gy job mar­kets for 2009 (the most re­cent data avail­able) paints–as you might ex­pect–a de­press­ing pic­ture in all but a few of the mar­kets sur­veyed. One big sur­prise: The job mar­ket with the strongest growth in tech jobs–with a net gain of 900–was Oklahoma City. Don’t pack up the U-Haul just yet. Yes, it added the most tech­nol­o­gy jobs of the 60 ci­ties in the sur­vey, but it al­so had one of the (...)

Here's what caught my at­ten­tion in the data world this week. It all comes down to fund­ing Fifty mil­lion. That's the num­ber of dol­lars in­vestors have com­mit­ted to IA Ventures, a New York City-based fund ded­i­cat­ed to big data tools and tech­nol­o­gy start-ups. It's quite an im­pres­sive num­ber for a first-time fund in any eco­nomic con­di­tions, let alone the cur­rent cli­mate. So how did they do it? Check out founder Roger Ehrenberg's re­cent blog post, in which he pro­vides a be­hind-the-sce­nes (...)