Three times a week an unassuming vehicle pulls up to a school in rural Uganda, sets up a few tables and chairs, and starts printing books. This is the Uganda Digital Bookmobile, a project inspired by the work of the Internet Archive and implemented by a spin-off nonprofit, Anywhere Books. The Uganda bookmobile, and others [...]
by Curt Rosengren After the disillusionment of the dot-com implosion and the cold shock of 9/11, many people are increasingly questioning the career path they’ve taken. More and more people are sitting at their desks, muttering to themselves, “What the @#&%! am I doing here?” Some have discovered that the brass ring they were reaching [...]
by Curt Rosengren As you look ahead, think of the rest of your career as a journey. That journey has the potential to be an incredible adventure, or the roadtrip from hell. Here are four steps to make sure you enjoy the ride! I. Create your internal compass / Passion Core (sm) The first and [...]
The Experience Music Project has been built from the ground up as a multi-sensory cultural experience. If you have a taste for great music, there’s something appetizing at every turn for you to sink your teeth into. As it turns out, the Project’s Turntable Restaurant has followed the same recipe. This creative kitchen is anything [...]
by Susan Scott, Special to Seattle24x7 In Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises,” a character is asked, “How did you go bankrupt?” He answers, “Gradually, then suddenly.” That summarizes my ephiphany after 13 years running think tanks for chief executives and more than 10,000 hours of one-to-one conversations with industry leaders worldwide: Careers and companies succeed [...]
You’ve heard the one about the two Webmasters who walk into a single’s bar. One is from Match.com, the company that has grown up as The Incredible Hulk in the muscular Internet category known as online dating. The other is from PerfectMatch.com, the newer, more svelte and brainy dating incarnation from Bothell, WA.-based MarketRange. PerfectMatch, which [...]
Capitol Hill Café/Internet Lounge Sets Its Sites High By Russell C. Smith Enter the front door of the 3,000 square foot Capitol Hill Café/Internet Lounge and Eatery and if you’re an Internet-nut, -naut, (or not), you’ll feel like you’re living large. Suddenly you’re inside the digital matrix on Cap Hill having found Seattle’s Zion. Around [...]
By Marietta A. Szubski Lots of people talk about the evolution of the Web, but it’s even more interesting to open up the lens to look at evolution AND the Web. The tech bubble may have burst, but the Web is just beginning according to Tom Corddry, former General Manager of Microsoft’s Multimedia Publishing group, [...]
Sunday, March 16, 2003 University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery When it comes to moviemaking, Seattle straddles the same longitude as its Hollywood counterparts. It’s the Northwest latitude, and attitude, that needs alignment with the show business industry model to put the Puget Sound’s brand of digital wizardry in synch with Beverly Hills’ style of [...]
by the editorial staff of Seattle24x7.com For the last two weeks of this November, Seattle’s On the Boards performing arts organization has hosted an elaborate presentation of Internet data as multimedia art. The installation, which just ended its run at the Behnke Center for Contemporary Performance (100 W. Roy) on its way to its next [...]
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Feb 6 2012
Techspresso Shots: PS Top Tech Talent Changing Posts, Places and Partners, Avg. Salary $90,000+
Like the Bay Area’s Silicon Valley, the “Emerald Triangle” of Seattle, Redmond and Kirkland has become a many faceted jewel of a marketplace for elite technical and management talent, and strong software design and programming professionals throughout the ranks.
As the NW tech world turns, management turnover churns with it. Watching the direction of “HR talent flow” from one company to another, is a fair predictor of who is up and who is down in any given industry category at a particular time.
Take “third-party apps” for example, and the shifting momentum in that market space between Microsoft and Amazon. Last year, Charlie Kindel (no Kindle “name-pun” intended), who was a Microsoft general manager leading third-party app initiatives, left the company to launch a start-up as yet unrealized. At the time Kindel called Windows Phone “the best product Microsoft has ever built.”
Now, his replacement, Brandon Watson is leaving Microsoft to join Amazon.com’s Kindle team also in third-part app development. Watson’s Twitter account confirmed the move. “The rumors are true. The team is in great hands,” he wrote on Friday. “I’ll miss working on #wpdev.”
Mary Jo Foley notes at ZDNet that the Amazon group Watson is joining makes Kindle apps for a variety of platforms, including Windows Phone. Watson leaves Windows Phone with a legacy of accomplishment According to AllAboutWindowsPhone.com, more than 60,000 items have now been published in the Windows Phone Marketplace.
Still it seems a bit surprising that the degree of overlap in the mobile app field is not restricted by a non-compete or non-disclosure agrement that would make it difficult to make such a switch “on the fly.”
Our talented cadre of Seattle workers are earning an average of $90,000 per year, up 5 percent from last year, plus an annual bonus of close to $10,000 according to a survey conducted by TechFlash. This compares favorably with the average annual wage of $81,327 for tech professionals nationwide.
Like the Microsoft and Amazon parallelism, the Bay Area has two opposing tech poles in Google and Apple. In an HR switch last week, Google purportedly pulled off a coup by hiring Apple’s senior director of product integrity for a secret project, according to VentureBeat. The hiring is interesting because the Department of Justice is investigating Google and Apple for allegedly working out a “no poach” agreement where the companies — along with Pixar, Lucasfilm, Intel and Intuit — allegedly conspired to suppress employee compensation by not poaching each other’s employees.
According to this Linkedin page, Simon Prakash worked at Apple for more than eight years where he was most recently the senior director of product integrity responsible for product quality across all of Apple’s products, from iPhones to Macs.
Now he’ll be working for Google on a secret project, presumably run by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who is in charge of a variety of secret research and development projects at Google. The company recently acquired Motorola Mobility, and it has a wide variety of hardware projects under way that Prakash might be working on. [24x7]