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Notwithstanding the MBTA's inability to create its own iPhone app, five tech-minded Massachusetts companies have made it to the semi-final round of Forbes Magazine's "Boost Your Business" competition. i-Nalysis of Concord, Plank of Charlestown, INeedAPencil.com and Ksplice of Cambridge, and Audissey Guides of straight-up Boston make up a quarter of the Fortune semi-finalists. A rundown of the operations:

Yesterday the fanfare that has been the opening celebration for the new ICA building in the Seaport district opened to the general public for a 12 hour free ride in the new space. The news today is that nearly 5,000 people visited the new facility over the course of the day, many of whom had positive things to say about it even after a two hour wait. The museum opened at 9 am and...

There’s the Duck Tour, the Trolley Tour (we’re not talking Green Line), Park Service Docents, the Freedom Trail, and dozens of biking and walking tours of the city. Steven Tyler may be local, but Bostonist has already seen the Old State House and we can’t be wasting our precious cell phone minutes to listen to him talk about it. With our attempt to find out some of those local hidden historical markers, we were very happy to find this “Hidden Historical Mania-in-a-can.” When Bostonist once again welcomes the parents to town for the Holidays this year, we’re sending them out, bundled up, for our new favorite tour of Boston. AudisseyGuides, produced by Robert Pyles. An intrepid, Boston-native, twenty-something entrepreneur, Pyles has pulled together a 27-stop tour of historic downtown Boston for sites we’ve passed by a thousand times and, now, will never think of the same way again.

Ping On Alley is just off of Essex Street in Chinatown, pretty close to South Station. Nothing very special about the alley… a parking lot on one side, a big ol’ brick building on the other. But if you look closely, there is a plaque that tells the tale of that alley. In June 1870, the first wave of Chinese immigrants were brought in by shoe factory owners in western Massachusetts to break a strike....