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  • The Personal Pulse of Pugetopolis

    The Personal Pulse of Pugetopolis

    Meet the movers, shakers, digerati, cognoscenti, imedia moguls and uber-geeks who should be part of your social network. The “Who’s Who” of local Tech-dom now appearing, or on deck, in Seattle24x7 People.

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  • Connect with Seattle’s Wet, Wi-Fied and Wired Web World

    Connect with Seattle’s Wet, Wi-Fied and Wired Web World

    Eclectic, Entrepreneurial, Engrossing, Engage with the enthralling energy of our Emerald Isle.
    Apple may have its iPad, Google its Gmail, and Microsoft its Xbox. Seattle24x7 has its electrifying E-City.

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  • A Meeting of Minds

    A Meeting of Minds

    A complimentary consultation with Seattle’s resident experts is yours 24/7 in Advisor-X. From SEO and ROI to OEM’s and ISV’s, market entry launch strategies to landing page conversion tactics, sharpen your analytics and your outlook for all things Internet with these X-ceptional insights.

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  • The Seattle24x7 Exclusive Interview

    The Seattle24x7 Exclusive Interview

    Get inside the Puget Sound’s busiest work places and most inventive market spaces with Seattle24x7′s exclusive executive interviews. From Pioneer Square to South Lake Union, Seattle to Redmond, the South Sound to the Eastside. Get linked to how the region’s tech leaders think in C-level “ShopTalks”.

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  • Navigate the Puget Sound’s Online Resource Network

    Navigate the Puget Sound’s Online Resource Network

    Your digital Atlas to local companies doing business online in nearly every facet of electronic commerce. Locate the Puget Sound resources, service and support to put your online venture on the map.

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  • Social Networking in Sync!

    Social Networking in Sync!

    Never miss a Puget Sound association meeting, conference session, training seminar, panel discussion, power breakfast, or networking event. Subscribe to the Seattle24x7 Events Calendar and download those red-letter dates to fill your own agenda.

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ShopTalk

Seattle Startup Weekend GOV and Evergreen Apps Challenge. Get Pitching!

Seattle Startup Weekend GOV and Evergreen Apps Challenge. Get Pitching!

As April showers precipitated a wellspring of evergeen ideas at City Hall, the City of Seattle, King County, and Washington State hosted Startup Weekend GOV , the first Startup Weekend event in the world to focus on using government datasets to build new startups. In officially opening the 56-hour Seattle brainstorming marathon, Mayor Mike McGinn simultaneously announced the Evergreen Apps Challenge, [...]

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“Avvocating” for Lawyers and Social Media, Avvo’s CEO Previews Seattle Summit, May 3-4

“Avvocating” for Lawyers and Social Media, Avvo’s CEO Previews Seattle Summit, May 3-4

“Avvocating  Social  Media” 2012 Conference Brings Together Lawdom’s Best and Brightest Social Media and Legal Minds at the Crossroads of Online Social Interaction For centuries, the venerable “black robed” legal profession has been unfashionably late to most forms of social engagement. Imagine: Lawyers were banned from advertising in 1908, until the gag order was removed as late as [...]

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SEOmoz PRO Named WTIA’s Commercial Product of the Year

SEOmoz PRO Named WTIA’s Commercial Product of the Year

SEOmoz, one of the search marketing industry’s most popular providers of search engine and social optimization software, proudly announced that its SEO analytics software suite, beter known as SEOmoz PRO, has been named the 2012 Commercial Product of the Year, by  the Washington Technology Industry Association in its 17thannual Industry Achievement Awards (IAA). The awards honor [...]

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People

Shauna Causey Works Socially and Carries a Big Club!

Shauna Causey Works Socially and Carries a Big Club!

Call it tummeling, networking or just advocating for the power of social media engagement, Shauna Causey now has a more colloquial title to commemorate her contributions to the Seattle social scene in 2012.  The statuesque social media maven was just named “Schmoozer of the Year” at the Seattle 2.0 Startup Awards presented by GeekWire.  In true, [...]

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Linda Thomas, “The News Chick,” Tweets It All In “140 Seconds or Less!”

Linda Thomas, “The News Chick,” Tweets It All In “140 Seconds or Less!”

Growing up in Iowa, the co-host of KIRO FM’s Seattle’s Morning News, Linda Thomas, aka “The News Chick,”  created her own small town version of  ”Twitter” the way an Iowa baseball player might carve out a “Field of Dreams.” Since news blogs and RSS feeds were still figments of science fiction imagination at the time, [...]

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Tracy Wong – Seattle’s “Mad Man” – Follows Don Draper on Bravo!

Tracy Wong – Seattle’s “Mad Man” – Follows Don Draper on Bravo!

Last night’s double-header on the Bravo television network had nothing to do with baseball. But it did feature two heavy-hitters.  Right after Mad Men, Bravo programmed a “sneak preview” episode of  their newly minted  reality series on the world of advertising titled “The Pitch.” Which raises the question: Which one of the Mad Men on Bravo was [...]

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E-City

Eat, Drink, Network & Game with Seattle’s Epic Game Builders

Eat, Drink, Network & Game with Seattle’s Epic Game Builders

Digital Burndown, a new catalyst for community, invites you to experience social gaming and meet other talented E-City game developers in live “meat space.” That’s the space where you will “meet” with other “live minds and bodies” in the non-virtual world.  The “meating place” is reserved for game industry folks to get social-aka-”network” with colleagues. [...]

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Seattle Doctor’s Appointment – Fast? Try ZocDoc!

Seattle Doctor’s Appointment – Fast? Try ZocDoc!

Feeling under the weather is not unusual in Seattle. But area residents can wait, on average, for up to two weeks or more  to arrange a medical appointment with a specialist.* Where do you turn when you need to see a doctor…right away? Try the Internet. ZocDoc has launched in the Greater Seattle region to [...]

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Cloud Computing to Create 14 Million New Jobs by 2015

Cloud Computing to Create 14 Million New Jobs by 2015

Spending on public and private IT cloud services will generate nearly 14 million jobs worldwide from 2011 to 2015, according to a new study by the analyst firm IDC.  The research, commissioned by Microsoft, also found that IT innovation created by cloud computing could produce $1.1 trillion a year in new business revenues. “The cloud is going [...]

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Pioneer Squared

Starbucks Driving “Create-Jobs-for-USA” with Google Offers & Promotions

Starbucks Driving “Create-Jobs-for-USA” with Google Offers & Promotions

When it comes to getting behind new jobs creation, Starbucks has a running head start.  And we don’t mean a jolt of caffeine to get you going in the morning. This week, Starbucks announced that Google Offers was joining in the effort it launched last year to stimulate new job creation opportunity. To date, Starbucks has raised [...]

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Microsoft vs. Zeus Cybercrime: Defeating Fraud and Identity Theft

Microsoft vs. Zeus Cybercrime: Defeating Fraud and Identity Theft

Microsoft is collaborating with the financial services industry in an unprecedented, cross-industry action against notorious cybercrime operations behind online fraud and identity theft. In its most complex effort to disrupt botnets to date, Microsoft Corp., in collaboration with the financial services industry — including the Financial Services – Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) and NACHA – The Electronic Payments [...]

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SMB Social Media IQ Just Got More “Visible”

SMB Social Media IQ Just Got More “Visible”

Small and mid-size businesses with an eye on employing social media to augment their online, e-commerce strategies and business development have good reason to smile! Visible Technologies®, the acclaimed Bellevue-based provider of social media monitoring, analytics and engagement software and services, has entered the SMB market with a potent solution. VI∙LITE, an easy to implement, cost-effective [...]

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Advisor-X

My Take: When Google Officially “Jumped the Shark”

My Take: When Google Officially “Jumped the Shark”

by Larry Sivitz This week, Google CEO, Larry Page, (Why couldn’t he have named the “PageRank” algorithm “LarryRank?”) celebrated his one-year anniversary since stepping into the Chief Executive Officer’s post at Building 43 in the Googleplex. After his first year on the job, what kind of grade, or, (ahem), “PageRank,” should we give to Mr. Page? [...]

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Don’t Get Schooled By Spear Phishing — The Oncoming Assault

Don’t Get Schooled By Spear Phishing — The Oncoming Assault

By Rod Rasmussen, IID President and Chief Technology Officer The numbers are truly staggering. More than 100 million people’s names, home addresses, email addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers and more were stolen at Sony, while tens of millions of additional email addresses were stolen during a data breach at marketer Epsilon. And what is [...]

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The Right Time to Sell

The Right Time to Sell

by Tom Metz, Author, Investment Banker, Founder, T.V. Metz & Co., LLC. Selling a company at the right time can make a big difference in the price. The reason for selling can also affect the timing. One of the primary reasons that a technology company sells is that it has reached an inflection point. A [...]

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Previews & Reviews

The Elements of Tech Style: The Microsoft Manual of Style, 4th Edition

The Elements of Tech Style: The Microsoft Manual of Style, 4th Edition

Before he narrated the audio book of his children’s literary classic, “Charlotte’s Web,” (downloadable at Amazon’s Audible.com), or did a stretch writing for The Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer, E.B. White took on the challenge of rewriting “The Elements of Style” a manifesto on English language usage originally authored by White’s Cornell college professor, William Strunk, in 1918.  ”E.B.” described the precedent [...]

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Time for Your Productivity to Soar on Mac or PC?  These Video Training Sites Give You Wings!

Time for Your Productivity to Soar on Mac or PC? These Video Training Sites Give You Wings!

When New York Times’ tech columnist David Pogue created a series of “How-to” guides for the Mac in 2002, the title he chose for the O’Reilly publications bare a not-so-subtle truth.  Pogue dubbed his series ”The Missing Manual” since the Apple Computer products that you, a family member or a colleague, may have plunked down close to four figures to [...]

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Xbox LIVE TV Is Born: “3 Screens and the Cloud”

Xbox LIVE TV Is Born: “3 Screens and the Cloud”

A new era in television begins this holiday season where your entertainment becomes instantly searchable, easily discoverable and enjoyable in extraordinary new ways from a single device — Xbox 360. Microsoft has announced plans to roll out the next generation of TV entertainment on Xbox LIVE, the online entertainment service for Xbox 360. Nearly 40 [...]

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