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The Always Updated, Premiere Directory of Seattle-area Internet Companies and Organizations
Recent additions include Clearstay, H10Capital, HumanityOnline, RadarWorks, Realself.com and WidgetBucks

Net a Seattle Internet Job
The job switch is turned on at Seattle24x7 Jobs

GotVMail Ringing in Virtual Phone Success for Logic 361
No company is an island. So Logic361 on Bainbridge uses GotVMail to manage a networked world of AdWords managers. Advisor-X


It's 2008, Do You Know Where Your Phone Calls Are Coming From?
Learn how ClickPath is bridging the path from search term and banner ad to phone sales in ShopTalk

The 7 Deadliest Small Business Website Sins
Stacy Karacostas' words, both in seminars and news bulletins, help small business owners, and their Websites, create sweet success stories. Read her 7 sinful steps to overcome in People.

Search Marketing Shoot-Out: PubCon vs. SES Chicago
Who won the East vs. West All-Star challenge in the field of Search Marketing trade shows? Seattle24x7 was on the E-scene.

Goodbye Google, Hello World!
The exit strategy of Vanessa Fox from Google's Webmaster Central made headlines. Read the full story in ShopTalk.

Earth Class Mail is a Seattle Start-up with TV Star Power
Online postal mail forwarding service delivers the drama and the story line while it delivers postal mail online. E-City

Seattle is New Home to Search Marketing Expo Advanced
Danny Sullivan brought the inaugural event of his new Search company, and his new passion, to Seattle. Meet him in People.

When The Apprentice Becomes the Sorceror
Seattle Web 2.0 star James Sun gave us the interview after almost winning The Apprentice along with the scoop on his new company, Zoodango. Read why we're glad he didn't get Trumped! ShopTalk

Turning Pixsy Dust into Paydirt:
PIxsy is helping sites monetize traffic through photo and video search ShopTalk


Netcast News: Seattle's NewsCloud vs. Newsvine
Read, rant, rate, write and watch your news, your way. Even get paid for doing it! The future of news is here in E-City

Web 2.0 or Bust!
Seattle's leading Web 2.0 companies and what's in store.
Cynic

Google's Webmaster Central in Kirkland
Google has made the center of its Webmaster World at home in Kirkland. Meer the keepers of the flame. ShopTalk


More on Seattle's Sisters of Search
Google Product Manager Vanessa Fox and Software Engineer Amanda Camp are the vital links behind Google Webmaster Central and Google Tools. Meet them in People.


Seattle24x7 Top Forty
Our annual traffic ranking of the Top 40 Websites originating in the Puget Sound, from Amazon to Zillow.

Blue Dot's (Now Fave's) Dot Connector
Kabir Shahani wants to make "dotting" a household world by connecting people with the best of the Web. Meet him in People.

From Paparazzo Camera to Closet
ShopA-List e-tails celebrity fashions from off the racks and backs of Hollywood's red carpet royals. Cynic

The A-Z of ZAAZ Web Analytics
What makes ZAAZ Analytics tick? We bring you the mojo behind the metrics and learn why you should be in serious Web analysis. Latest ShopTalk

WashTech Goes to Washington
The union whose members provide advocacy for the technology workers of Washington is weighing in the H1-B guest worker program. Marcus Courtney gives us the scoop. People

Seattle Mind Camp Lights the Fire
Meet the brains behind Mind Camp. Andru Edwards shares his collaborative spirit. People

Driving the Podcast Revolution

Melodeo breaks the wireless sound barrier for Podcasters, direct to your mobile phone. ShopTalk

The 411 on WhitePages.com

8-10 million page views is all in a day's work. ShopTalk

Jobster Pursues a Hire Calling

Jason Goldberg has created the ultimate Job Networkers' Network. May we refer you to ShopTalk?


Rider of the Torrential BitStorm
Bram Cohen solves the biggest file sharing puzzle – by orders of magnitude People


Sign Here, On the Web:
DocuSign Signs You On

Electronic signatures come of age. Go digital, ditch paper. ShopTalk

Can VoteHere.com Save American Elections --
and the Free World
Seattle-based technology can bring fairness and truth to the democratic voting process. ShopTalk

Mercent: Minds Over Markets
10 portals, 100 million online shoppers — Eric Best sums it up in ShopTalk

Seattle's Leading Hacker - A DM'er
Spyro Kourtis isn't a Web hacker. But he is leading The Hacker Group, a division of FCB, into the Internet era of Direct Marketing. Meet him in People

MFORMA Heeds A Global Calling
The world of mobile gaming is in MFORMA's hands — and yours! ShopTalk

180solutions Turns Search Advertising Around
Turning cost-per-click search advertising on its ear, 180solutions just banked $40 million in investor confidence. Learn how in ShopTalk

Revenue Sunshine of the Spotted Mind
Mining your business, Revenue Science unleashes the power of Behavioral Targeting ShopTalk


SBI.Razorfish Knows Seattle Inside-Out
With landmark work for Microsoft, Safeco and WaMu, SBI-Razorfish is right at home in the Puget Sound, the hub of their West Coast operations. ShopTalk

Sound Thinking Revitalizing the WSTPA
Doña Keating is awakening high tech from its slumber on the Olympic Peninsula. Meet her in People

Feedback Loop
Expert tips from Seattle's QuestionPro on creating the effective online survey. AdvisorX

The Gifts that Keep On Giving
Tis' the season for GiftCertificates.com to be very merry. Unwrap the packaging of this gifted e-business case in ShopTalk

To Buy, or Not to Buy
UW Professor Oren Etzioni, the inventor of Metacrawler and NetBot, has launched Hamlet to save you thousands on airline tickets. People

Paid Inclusion Paves Way to Search Success
Marchex' Chief Strategy Officer explains what "Paid Inclusion" is and how it pays to feed the engines. Advisor X

XBox Live: One Year Later
One-year in the life of the fastest growing unified broadband gaming service ever.

Streamies Spawn in Seattle
These upwardly mobile Web creatures keep returning to spawn on Web multimedia. Karen Howe introduces the new species.
Advisor X.

Janis Machala Talks Shop
Strategic Advisor, Technovisionary, Headhunter, Angel, Interim CEO and COO (of several PS start-ups), Paladin Partners' Janis Machala is all of these things — and more. Meet her in ShopTalk

Spinning Tasty Platters at The Turntable
Feasting more than
your eyes and ears at
The Experience Music Project Kultcha



WhatCounts Sums Up Email Success
Can you count on email to alert or remind customers about your business? Learn how to use email for what really counts in ShopTalk.

Managing Media? You Need thePlatform
What do Metallica, CNBC, Windows Media and your multimedia assets have in common? Why, thePlatform, of course! ShopTalk.


Online Dating Meets Its Match
PerfectMatch.com is picking up where Seattle's Kiss.com left off, developing the perfect relationship tools online. Kultcha

Washington's| Oldest Tech Association is Sixty Years Young
The AeA is committed to improving your technology business. Meet the state's Executive Director in People

Comcast Casts the Broadest Net
In the Battle of Broadband, Comcast is Seattle's heavyweight champion. ShopTalk.

DotSongs: Redmond Dreamweaver Threads Online Tales into Tunes
Monsoon Teacup rocks with a Web-ified lyrical beat. Surf it in People



Seattle's Spam Arrest Puts the Cuffs On Spam
Book 'em, Spamo...Seattle's Spam Arrest has effectively put an end to Spam as we know it. Say good riddance to bad rubbish in ShopTalk.

Highwire Act: Airline Travel Industry Acts on Net Advantages with TravelPort
Highwire (now TravelPort) is hot...and hiring! Driving down the bottom line in corporate travel, the firm is scaling new heights, online. Now boarding in ShopTalk.

Read the news? Brent Simmons is Syndicating It
Ballard's Brent Simmons just created NetNewsWire, Mac OS X's coolest RSS News Reader. What's RSS? Why should you be publishing on it? Get with the syndicate in the latest parcel of People.

Seattle Law and Order: Internet Intent
How does Redmond's Versuslaw dispense information and justice over the Internet? We're on the case and you get to read the brief in ShopTalk.

Digital Imagery is Her Stock in Trade
Kasz Maciag is the eagle eye behind the lens of Getty Images Website Marketing. Meet her in People.



Tapping Your Employee Knowledge Network
Voted the region's most promising new company, AskMe Corp. promises to improve the way companies find answers, develop new products and reward employees.
ShopTalk

Why Online? Because Interactive Provides a Powerful Brand Boost
MSN's Dave Chase, chair of the Chief Marketing Officer Committee for the IAB, answers the burning question! Advisor X

InfoSpace Makes Search #1
The Northwest is home to four monster search engines and InfoSpace is making them perform like never before!
ShopTalk

Qpass Sows the Seeds of Reinvention
Employee numero uno, Ron Faith, shares his insights
on the realignment and how you can succeed in the content space. ShopTalk

Trails.com Ascends Path to E-com Summit
From the slopes of Mount Kiliminjaro in Kenya to the land of the snow leopard in Mongolia, Rob Holmes has honed the right kind of experience to lead the marketing ascent for Trails.com People


The Bliss of Wireless Mobility
Seattle's Mobliss has become the world's first mobile telephone digital entertainment network. Follow your wireless bliss to ShopTalk.

Seattle's Online Passage to India
Home to IndiaHQ.com, the only South Asian Yellow Pages provider in the nation, and a string of city sites that end in Guru.com, Seattle is the online gateway to America's Indian communities. Kultcha

A Healthy Outlook for Life: Resveratrol
Seattle24x7 publishes online guide to Resveratrol news, Resveratrol advice, and the science behind Resveratrol findings.

What's Brewing
Week of 5.05.08

MicroHoo Deal Fizzles. Sunnyvale's Sunny "Value" in Question
Microsoft decided to muck its high stakes poker hand and the wager that it could induce Yahoo's board to accept a $33 a share takeover offer and abruptly "left the table" last Saturday.

Apparently spooked by the prospect of a widening ad share arrangement between Yahoo and Google, and the unfavorable possibility of other defensive maneuvers that would further diminish Yahoo's value, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer turned on his heels. Only afterwords, did Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, tail between his legs, try to explain he was open to the deal all along. Yeah, Right!

Defending his company against allegations that they didn't try hard enough to deal with Yahoo, Bill Gates spoke out in Tokyo yesterday, "A lot of effort" was put into trying to work out a deal and that the pair should pursue "independent paths". Gates continued, "Now at this point Microsoft is focused on its independent strategy."

To this observer, Microsoft made the right move. Not to devalue what Yahoo could have meant to a Microhoo alliance, but the prospect that 1+1 would equal something other than 1 in this equation was speculative at best.

Ironically, many in the Search advertising world credit Microsoft with the more sophisticated technology when comparing the sharply innovative adCenter system with the often klugey Yahoo upgrade of a year ago, code named Panama. Microsoft's keyword research tools, demographic targeting options, and the potential of visual search with Photosynth are, for starters, all more impressive than Yahoo's technology. What Microsoft was seeking with Yahoo was simply popularity: the brand recognition (something it would ironically replace), and Web traffic,which can be fleeting. The joke on the street was that, for the asking price, Microsoft could buy the allegiance of Yahoo's installed base by paying each user a handsome bounty.

What would a combined Microsoft-Yahoo alliance do for Microsoft that Microsoft could not do for itself? That question was far from easy to answer. Only now it will be up to Microsoft to find the path on its own. The results could come as quite a surprise for the stakeholders. Stay tuned! [24x7]

Seattle's Mixpo Launches Online Video Advertising Platform
Seattle's Mixpo is looking to do for video advertising what text-based ad technology has done for keywords. The Seatle-based online video advertising company is dedicated to serving the local small and medium-size business (SMB) market with a remarkable online video advertising platform consisting of five integrated components.

The Mixpo VideoAd is a dynamic video advertising player that businesses can easily embed into in-banner video ads, search engine landing pages, Web pages, or blogs. Each VideoAd includes interactive triggers, designated areas where users click to request more information or reach the business directly, generating highly qualified and measureable leads. The online Mixpo Studio lets companies easily create high-quality VideoAds from existing video, photo, and audio files, from a broad range of stock media options, or through the services of Mixpo’s video production partner.

Through Ad Rotation, the Mixpo system allows companies to test and compare different versions of a VideoAd for effectiveness by running, or rotating, the versions simultaneously. Clients can measure how a VideoAd is performing by tracking the number of impressions and views, playthrough and conversion, viewers’ geographic locations, and referring sites on a Dashboard. Mixpo's business model is based on share of revenue. [24x7]

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