Wonder of Wanders, Zeenami Tsunami
How walkable is your neighborhood? Walkscore.com ranks communities nationwide (and soon, globally) based on how many businesses, parks, theaters, schools and other common destinations...
Amazon Flexes Its Payments, WSA Adds Five
Ka-ching! Amazon is rolling out a new web service for online payments which will compete with PayPal and Google Checkout. The new program is...
Nokia’s Twango and adCenter Parameters
Nokia Corp. is jumping into the social networking market, establishing a presence right here in Emerald City with the acquisition of Twango Inc.
Twango, which...
Two Home Grown Sites Acquired
Small is the new big, according to Internet consultant Seth Godin, whose marketing manual of the same name will soon appear in paperback. The...
Microsoft Search Share is Most Prized
What's Brewing
7.16.07
Microsoft Search Share Increase Is Most Prized
During the recent Search Marketing Expo Advanced conference, I got a chance to ask new Microsoft Search...
Dreamliner Debs Over Webcast
The unveiling of Boeing's newest high-tech jetliner, the 787 Dreamliner occurred with great fanfare and the world watching yesterday. Tom Brokaw, of NBC Nightly...
World Cyber Games are Coming!
Microsoft introduced two new online services to its Windows Live line-up on Tuesday and said it plans to release more Web offerings this year...
Picniking with BetterPhotos
Picnik.com has announced a free public beta of the first completely Web-based photo editing and sharing application to give users everywhere the ability to...
Yapta, Mediaroom and Travel Search
Just as one world-class Seattle search conference wraps up, another is queuing up right behind. Hot on the heels of SMX Advanced, the competing...
Avvo, nuTsie and Pandora’s Box
Avvo, the new national online rating service for attorneys, opened its doors last week, not with a beta but with a bang. Founder Mark...
SMX Advanced Seattle
It was a long time coming, but, this week, Seattle played host to its first, full-fledged search marketing conference, Search Marketing Expo Advanced. As...
Microsoft’s Record-Setting Acquisition
In the biggest acquisition in the company's history, Microsoft has announced that it is acquiring aQuantive, the Seattle-based online advertising services firm, in an...
60 Minutes and Top 10 Seattle Investments
Did you catch Redin CEO Glenn Kelman on Sunday's 60 Minutes? "Real estate, by far, is the most screwed up industry in America," said...
Efinancial.com Uses Internet “Best Practices” to Rank as One of Washington’s, and America’s, Most...
When Washington CEO magazine set out to identify the leaders of a new breed of Internet company - one that exemplified the "best practices"...
HotMail Debs, ZenZui Wows
Microsoft formally launches Windows Live Hotmail this week, rolling out the new Web-based e-mail service to customers who are not already using it in...
Boycott Beijing
Seattle24x7 is proud to add our voice, as well as our community spirit, to a strong call to action for the Chinese government and...
Amazon, Google, Entellium on a Roll
Entellium has introduced its next generation CRM software tool designed to help small sales organizations sell more effectively. Titled Rave (ravecrm.com) the ASP-based software...
Microsoft Data Center Bets the Farm
In a century-old farming town in central Washington state, Microsoft has built a farm for the Internet age. But don't be on the lookout...
Google Local, Zillow Home Q&A
Google Voice Local Search is Google’s latest bid to make local-business search accessible over the phone.
To try the free service, just dial 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411)...
BestBuy Acquires Speakeasy
The nation's largest standalone seller of electronics has paid $97 million to acquire Seattle-based Speakeasy, America's leading indepdenent broadbant Internet service provider and...
Zoodango, Remote Control Mail
The rush to build Web 2.0 technologies reminds some observers of the wild run-up to the Internet bubble during the late 1990s.However, users and...
Use Microsoft Search, Get Free Products
How does Microsoft challenge Google's hegemony in Web search in its unaccustomed role as a challenger brand? The answer is a caculated one. One...
Clearwire’s High Wire Act
Clearwire opened up aggressively in its stock market IPO debut with a price of $27.25, but ended the first day of trading day below...
Seattle Kitchen for Sale on eBay
The best way to a man's heart is through his stomach. The best way to his stomach? An amazing kitchen -- the remodeling of...
Microsoft’s MP3 Woes and Nintendo’s WII
A federal jury's ruling that Microsoft infringed on two MP3 patents and must pay $1.52 billion in damages could turn into a major...
Seattle U, Crosscut and the Vanishing Point
Four days unplugged? LOL ... RU crazy? not for a dozen communications students at Seattle University who recently attempted a 96-hour "media deprivation" experiment.
This...
Starbucks Extra Shot: Free Wi-Fi
Starbucks has decided to change Wi-Fi flavors, switching from the pay-as-you-go T-Mobile HotSpot relationship coffee drinkers are using now to a new alliance with...
Jobster Turns About Face with Facebook
Following a 41 percent reduction in its work force last month, Jobster has turned about face by inking a deal to become the exclusive...
Venture Status of the Union
Venture capital investments topped $1 billion in Washington last year, marking the biggest surge of private investment money in the state since the dot-com...
Ya-Who? Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion
In the 2008 Internet advertising chess match, a 3-D chess game according to Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer, the Redmond juggernaut has made a bold,...
Nintendo News Feed, Microsoft Search Charity
Rabid video gamers got some help keeping in touch with the outside world this weekend as Nintendo Co. launched an online news service through...
Film. Paint and Dentsu
Seattle’s RealNetworks has launched a new film and entertainment news site, Film.com, featuring film previews, movie trailers, DVD releases, and coverage of television programming...
Peusing Perooz, Redfin and Expedia
Seattle-based Perooz.com is ascending the cusp of mobile entertainment stardom by importing print-zines and a medley of other content to the portable iPod, and...
Jennifer Hodgdon and Poplar ProductivityWare Practice Good Science and Social Science
What do AT&T's Bell Labs, Wall Street's Goldman Sachs, the "Language Bank" of the American Red Cross and Seattle's Literary Source have in common?
For...
Google, UW and the Universe
In a move of inter-galactic proportions, the planet’s leading search engine has announced a partnership with the University of Washington, among others in academia,...
Viva Las CES
The annual Consumer Electronics Show has become the bellwether for high tech bets and bluffs for the year ahead. Once again this year, Bill...
Powerless Utilities
The damage caused by the 2006 pre-holiday windstorm which swept through the Puget Sound region masks the troubling infrastructure being propped up by Seattle...
Seattle First City of Search 2.0
The founder of the acclaimed Search Engine Strategies industry symposia, Danny Sullivan, is launching a newly branded search engine marketing conference series. The new...
Asking for the Best City Search
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is planning a $328 million expansion of its global libraries initiative that will bring free Internet access and...
CyberMonday 2006
Amazon.com was disrupted for about 15 minutes, starting at about 2 p.m. EST Thanksgiving day, as the retailer offered Microsoft's Xbox 360 game console...
