• Paul Berry, CTO of HuffingtonPost
• Gil Beyda, Founder and Managing Partner of Genacast Ventures
• Vinicius Vacanti, Co-Founder of Yipit.com

From the Ultra Light Startups website:

You have a great idea for a startup business.  It’s a concept nobody has thought of before and you’re sure it will change the world – and make millions in profit.  The problem is, you’ve never built a website before.  So how do you implement your idea?  Come to this event and find out – hear from startup experts who have done all it before..

Topics include:

• An outline of the common technology platforms used to build websites.  How to determine which one is right for your project.
• Hiring a freelancer or a software development agency
• Recruiting a technical co-founder
• Building it yourself
• An outline of the essential product and project management skills necessary to be successful
• And much more…

You can watch the panel here.  The good stuff starts about 18 minutes in:

For the second year in a row, Steve Bruner is a co-organizer for WordCampNYC.  Last years event was awesome, and this year will be just as good, so get  your tickets now.  If you would like to Sponsor, Speak or Volunteer, we would love to hear from you.  WordCampNYC 2010 will be the weekend of October 16 at Baruch College.

247WallSt.com features: a host of social networking tools; Email post to a friend, post to Facebook, Follow on Twitter, Share This, Digg, Yahoo Buzz, Delicious, Fark and Reddit.  We also integrated the Intense Debate enhanced comment system, and a tabbed interface in the sidebar to highlight popular posts and the Editor’s picks.  Setting a post as a “Featured Article” highlights it on all pages.

If you use WordPress, we highly recommend you attend WordCamp.

Steve Bruner, Founder and Partner at SlipFire will be appearing on a panel to discuss Content Management Systems (CMS).  SlipFire is an online business solution firm specializing in helping businesses use the web productively through proper website design, website analytics, online advertising and social networking.

The panel is hosted by Ultra Light Startups, a group of entrepreneurs who explore the perpetually evolving factors involved in the cost of launching a tech venture, reaching profitability and multi-million dollar valuations in a very short period of time with minimal capital investment.   This event will focus on the main differences between the three major CMS platforms; WordPress, Drupal and Joomla, with Mr. Bruner representing WordPress.  Steve is an expert in WordPress, and runs the WordPress Meetup in New York City.

This event will be held at Gigapixel Creative on December 4 at 7pm.

SlipFire Website Design has released a new WordPress Theme based on the BluePrint CSS framework. The SF-BluePrint-WP theme uses BluePrint’s latest 0.7 code to create an easy to use, fully XHTML compliant WordPress theme.

“When we first came across BluePrint CSS, we knew it would change the way we design websites”, says the SlipFire team, “BluePrint has allowed us to create websites faster than before. It really cut down on our CSS design time.”

SlipFire is commited to designing websites that beautiful and easy to use, and are always XHTML & W3C CSS compliant. Additionally, most of their website design is also “Bobby Approved” for accessibility. Being Bobby Approved means that people with disabilities can use tools like screen readers to access websites.

Features: An easily customizable grid, Sensible typography, Relative font-sizes everywhere, A typographic baseline, Perfected CSS reset, No bloat of any kind, Cross-browser compatible, WordPress 2.3.2 compatible, Widget ready.

For more information:

SlipFire’s BluePrint WP Theme

Live Demo of Theme

SlipFire Website Design

Bobby Approved Website Design

BluePrint CSS