“Open Sesame,” the orthodontist beckons, angling for a better look at the inner workings of your teeth and jaw so that he can go to work with the most modern tools and chart the progress being made on improving your smile. A similar strategy is being employed by Frith Maier, the co-founder and CEO of [...]
As author of The Content Management Bible, a gospel on how to organize and publish information in the Internet age, Bob Boiko is something of an information evangelist. Theology doesn’t actually enter into his teaching at the University of Washington Information School (the I-School) where Boiko is assistant chair of the Masters of Science in [...]
The quaint Seattle suburb of Poulsbo, Washington, nestled at the end of a fjord on the Olympic Peninsula’s Liberty Bay, seems like an unusually pastoral setting in which to find a high technology Summit taking place. That the conference would bring together no fewer than three U.S. congressmen along with key operatives and leaders from [...]
As one for whom the term netrepreneur or infopreneuer could have been created, John Jerome has seen the white light of business innovation converge around a great many ideas. Managing a full-spectrum of projects in the Web’s prismatic era, Jerome is now focused on 2004 with renewed, laser-like intensity. These days he is actually using [...]
“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 to fathom the depths of airline ticket pricing. Depending on the time of day you book a flight online, the price of a seat can fluctuate wildly, changing by hundreds, if [...]
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 firm BrandDigital, Scott is an online marketing expert who has honed the fine craft of Web analytics. His journey has allowed him to analyze the life-cycle of the click from [...]
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) oldest and largest technology trade organization for nearly two decades. The career path she’s followed could be compared to a kind of electronic circuit — one that sends pulses along the [...]
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 having played a formative role in the launch of pioneering software like Asymetrix Toolbook and new wireless standards such as CDPD, which she also named, it would be easy to [...]
The Web has spawned a plethora of new ideas in publishing information, only one of which is the garden variety Website. Web “blogs,” which are interactive pages that read like personal diaries, replete with random observations and impromptu hyperlinks, represent a new breed of e-journalling. “Wikis” are Web-based documents that are collaboratively written and edited [...]
When the focus is on Web usability, marketing and commerce for Getty Images, Kasz Maciag, Vice President Marketing Website Development, is the one behind the virtual lens. An Internet marketer with an exceptionally well-trained eye for success, Kasz has not only seen the stock photography movement explode from glossy or transparent pictures into rasterized pixels [...]
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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]