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Seattle’s RealNetworks launched today its film and entertainment news site Film.com, featuring film previews, movie trailers, DVD releases, and coverage of television programming and celebrity news. Real is introducing the new Film.com at Sundance, where reporters for the Web site will post daily exclusive video reports and commentary from the film festival. Read the rest of this entry »

FindByClick.com is the place to find 10,418 Starbucks locations in the US, Canada and Hong Kong and 3,046 Tim Hortons locations in Canada, US and Afghanistan (yes, Afghanistan). They have completely overhauled the user interface (it looks fantastic) and have added heaps more locations. They have links (on this page - look at the very bottom) to copies of the Tim Hortons and Starbucks databases used in this mashup, in case someone wants to create their own mashup! Be sure to also find the 4 Easter Eggs on this site.. and post a comment when you find them!

Accipiter, which sells ad serving technologies to web publishers in more than 20 countries, has been bought up by Seattle-based Atlas, the technologies business unit of aQuantive, Inc.  Accipiter outstanding shares were acquired in exchange for cash consideration of $30.3 million. According to Atlas president Karl Siebrecht, the acquisition will compliment Atlas’s core strength and position among buyers of Internet advertising.

Northwest consumers whose holiday shopping lists include a digital camera or a digital television may be trying to understand and sort through a dizzying array of options. Take Control Books is on hand, your mouse clicking hand that is, to help locate the right gift at the right price by offering a 30 percent discount on any ebook order that includes “Take Control of Buying a Digital Camera,” or “Take Control of Digital TV.” Both guides are authored by Seattle-based experts.

Clark Humphreys, author of “Take Control of Digital TV,” is editor of the Belltown Messenger as well as a former staff writer for the Stranger and the Comics Journal. He wrote, among other things, the 1995 book “Loser: The Real Seattle Music Story,” and the 2006 book “Vanishing Seattle.” His blog is at http://www.miscmedia.com/.

Larry Chen, author of “Take Control of Buying a Digital Camera,” is a freelance photographer who lives in the Seattle area and who teaches photography as an adjunct faculty member at Seattle Pacific University. His portfolio is online at http://www.lchenphoto.com/.

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The founder of Search Engine Watch and the main man behind the Search Engine Strategies conferences, Danny Sullivan, is making a clean break with his former employer and launching a newly branded search engine marketing conference series. The new events will be branded Search Engine Marketing Expo or SMX for short.

The first show will take place in Seattle on June 4 and 5 of 2007 at the Bell Harbor Conference Center!

Danny’s new company Third Door will also be responsible for a new Search Engine Land site covering the science of searching and search engine marketing. In one more exciting search industry-related development, the new company has announced Search Marketing Now or SMN, a series of search marketing webcasts. which will complement the current search engine podcast known as the Daily Searchcast with feature oriented content.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is planning a $328 million expansion of its global libraries initiative that will bring free Internet access and training into as many as 15 countries over the next seven years.

As reported in the Puget Sound Business Journal, the foundation on Thursday announced $17.5 million in grants for Botswana in Africa, as well as Latvia and Lithuania in Eastern Europe. The grants mark the first time the Seattle-based Gates Foundation has awarded money to Eastern European nations. Read the rest of this entry »

National Scrabble Champion, Jim Kramer, Is Victorious Over Newly Launched RealArcade Version of SCRABBLE

To bring attention to its much touted role as the world’s largest publisher of casual games, RealNetworks held a SCRABBLE Man vs. Machine competition in Seattle pitting the 2006 SCRABBLE Open against the game developed by RealNetworks. The human won!

Real crowned Jim Kramer, the National SCRABBLE Open champion, the winner of its Man vs. Machine contest and awarded him $10,000. Kramer lost the first two-out-of-three games and won the second. The tension was high among the crowd, as it seemed that the computer would win the third game, but Kramer pulled ahead and won by a single point on his last play of the game!