Bram Cohen’s filesharing brainstorm has touched off a firestorm in Web downloading

The brainstorm Bram Cohen had about sharing large files over the Internet makes even the usual February cloudbursts and tempests outside his Bellevue,...

Patricia Belyea Connects the Dots to Dot.com

Patricia Belyea is wired for the Web. The ebullient Seattle personality has been a fixture on the Northwest design circuit for more than two...

Prodigy Nathan Enns is the progeny of Google

The spawning of a new era in search engine technology can be found far upstream of the teeming reservoirs of Google, Yahoo!, Inktomi or...

Donna Shirley makes Seattle’s Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame her New Home

Donna Shirley knows the path to Mars. As program manager for the Mars Exploration Program for NASA, Donna was the original leader of the team...

Spyro Kourtis is Boosting Direct Mail Performance with Proven Internet Strategies

As the thirty-something president of The Hacker Group, Spyro Kourtis works hard to differentiate the firm, which under his tenure has grown to be...

Frith Maier has parlayed her travel adventures in Russia into helping orthodontists communicate online

"Open Sesame," the orthodontist beckons, angling for a better look at the inner workings of your teeth and jaw so that he can go...

Bob Boiko Wrote the Bible on Web Content Management

As author of The Content Management Bible, a gospel on how to organize and publish information in the Internet age, Bob Boiko is something...

John Jerome continues to blaze a new age of Puget Sound enlightenment

As one for whom the term netrepreneur or infopreneuer could have been created, John Jerome has seen the white light of business innovation converge...

UW Professor Oren Etzioni, inventor of Metacrawler, NetBot, and now Hamlet, is a Virtual...

"To buy or not to buy, that is the e-commerce question." It is a most ominous and confounding question among Internet shoppers when attempting...

Scott Fasser: Knowing What Ticks Behind the Clicks

What makes Internet eCommerce tick? Scott Fasser knows it all starts with a single click. As the founder and chief digital strategist of digital marketing...

You Belong in Washington’s Oldest Technology Association (and America’s Largest) Meet the AeA and...

As the Northwest region's Executive Director of the American Electronics Association (AeA), Terry Byington has been helping to guide Washington state's (and the nation's)...

Shelly Julien Keeps Ideas in Motion for NetMotion Wireless

Shelly Julien Keeps Ideas in Motion for NetMotion Wireless Working alongside such industry behemoths as Paul Allen and former Microsoft technology chief Nathan Myhrvold, and...

Inventor of the NetNewsWire RSS News Reader Shows Off “Really Simple Syndication” in Online...

The Web has spawned a plethora of new ideas in publishing information, only one of which is the garden variety Website. Web "blogs," which...

Digital Imagery is Her Stock in Trade

When the focus is on Web usability, marketing and commerce for Getty Images, Kasz Maciag, Vice President Marketing Website Development, is the one behind...

Loudeye’s Colin Garvey is Changing the Face of Web Conferencing

As the Senior Product Manager at Loudeye who is responsible for the launch of the Loudeye Express Web conferencing solution, Colin Garvey is helping...

Melinda Partin Shows How It’s Done Behind-the-Screens at Worktank

"Your message, any screen." That's the tagline underscoring the impressive work of Melinda Partin and Seattle's Worktank -- a rich-media strategy and production agency...

Celeste Combs takes a 360-degree View of the Customer

For Celeste Combs, founder of The Experience Group, helping clients succeed in e-commerce means not only helping them understand usability, for which she is a...

Detlev Johnson and Heather Lloyd Martin: Hot on the Trail of Search Engine Marketing

Like Lewis or Clark (and their significant other Sacagawea), the Northwest explorers whose search skills brought them to settle in the Pacific Northwest, Internet...

Dakotta Alex: Networking on a First Name Basis

There are those on the Puget Sound Internet scene for whom first name recognition will suffice: Bill, Paul, Rob, Jeff, Dakotta. Dakotta? Dakotta Alex is...

Hand it to Jon Lisbin who has helped NetReflector and Alertus point the way...

his hand. Jon Lisbin gets to knows downtown Tokyo like the back of his hand For Jon Lisbin, the key to success...

Rob Holmes travels the path to success at Trails.com

From the slopes of Mount Kiliminjaro in Kenya to the land of the snow leopard in Mongolia and Central Asia, Rob Holmes has travelled...

Forecasting the Business Climate is by Design for Karl Bischoff

In the current edition of Communication Arts, Karl Bischoff takes up the question of economic recovery, analyzing the key economic indicators ("the ones that...

John Chaffee Has Cut Software Marketing Down to Size

It's a deep blue summer day in the life of the Puget Sound software industry, and John Chaffee is demonstrating how you can think...

The Art of Coaching as Crafted by Molly Gordon

Who needs a coach? Judging by the people who use them religiously, who swear by them emotionally, and who push themselves competitively in their...

Championing the Experience of Experience Design: Methodologie’s Greg Nations

Experience is the operative word when talking about the Web and "Experience Design" with Greg Nations, vice president of Interactive Services for the award-winning...

Straight A’s for Effort: Artist, Advocate and Association Chapter President Lisa Shaftel Stands Up...

"The Graphic Artists Guild is the only professional arts organization that engages in any sort of political advocacy and lobbying to make changes...

Denis Du Bois, founder of FreelanceSeattle.Net, shares the secret to success as an independent...

The freelance lifestyle in Seattle, or anywhere else in the world for that matter, is not for everyone. But for those who are prepared...

Debbi Brainerd: Creating the Puget Sound Habitat for Learning

In the new age of interactive learning, research reveals that what children do — what they actually experience for themselves first-hand, as opposed to...

A Knack for Know-How: John Knapp’s StartupAlliance.org Builds Its Foundation On Knowledge

For as long as he can remember, John Knapp has been involved in some form of teaching, coaching or training others to make technology...

Forget Spiderman, Super WebGirl Weaves A Superior Web

Look, up in the sky. It's the Space Needle, it's a Boeing prototype, it's a Columbia Center falcon. No, it's SuperWebGirl! A woman...

WebTalkGuys from Loudvox Goes Prime Time on CNET Radio

For the first two years of their excellent Internet adventure, Rob and Dana Greenlee, co-founders of Loudvox, an Internet radio and audio production...

Matt Hyde: Peaking the ROI for REI.com

The narrow path to E-commerce success has proven to be steep and often insurmountable for many in the Pacific Northwest. Not so for Matt...

WebTalkGuys from Loudvox Goes Prime Time on CNET Radio

The dictionary offers two definitions of the word mogul. The first: an industry leader, a person of influence or distinction. The second: the sculpted...

The Atom of Digital Eve

Less than 18 whirlwind months ago, a small group of women, virtually linked by the threads of an online discussion weaving across America and...

The Racer’s Edge

In her free time Tiffany McVeety likes to sail. But don't picture this five foot, six inch native of the "Land of 1,000 Lakes"...

Jeanette Stanhope Takes the Lead at WebGrrls

Call it synchronocity or serendipity, but Seattle WebGrrl Chapter Leader Jeanette Stanhope has found herself taking on positions of leadership and responsibility almost by...

Nordstrom in Re-release

Two generations ago, his great-grandfather used the earnings made during the gold rush to open a shoe store in Seattle. Now, nearly one hundred...

Seattle’s Spam Cop

He doesn't carry a badge, tear gas or pepper spray. The closest he'll ever get to his nemesis -- who could be hiding anywhere...

Career Karma by Curt

A virtual patron saint of career opportunity who manages one of the most popular Internet mailing lists of select job openings throughout the Puget...

Multimedia Maven

Alex St. John, whose company Wild Tangent picked up a cool $34 million in venture capital last week, has been named by Ziff-Davis as...