The effective melding of Web site and retail store, like the making of custom-fitted haute couture, requires weaving many threads into a cohesive virtual and physical fabric. The seamless stitching of Seattle’s Nordstrom between online and offline, including the launch of new Social Media features this fall, is attracting Web shoppers at both ends of [...]
Renegade venture capitalist, Paul Allen, has fired a legal torpedo at the top companies in techdom this week that has analysts scratching their heads about whether the Microsoft co-founder, VC magnate and U-boat commander has crossed the chasm of irrationality. Does Allen really want to bring the software world to its collective knees? The alternatively [...]
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In a word, and a freshly-minted word at that, “Integrativity” could be the most apt marketing term to describe Seattle-based Cozi. The online family “organizing” service works to integrate the scheduling of today’s busy family members by letting moms, dads and kids synch up their activities and errands with an online calendar, shopping lists, to-do [...]
The success of Seattle’s Wetpaint has paralleled, and to a significant extent, propelled the ascendancy of Web 2.0 by answering two of the most interesting and pivotal questions about the Social Web experience. “What features make a Website a social site?” is the first one. By virtue of a Wiki-based foundation that allows collaborative document [...]
Picture the social grid of public opinion on the World Wide Web, the concourse of ideas where daily interchange about your company and your brands is transacted 24/7. Be it in the blogosphere, the Twitterverse, a product review site, a gallery on Flickr, or the many outlets of Googledom, people are typing, texting and commenting on [...]
If the first half of ”year 200o’s” first decade marked the preeminence of search engine and social media marketing on the Web, the second half stood for the era of Search Marketing Analytics, analyzing the payoff from online to offline. By revealing the best insights on Web-based performance, the epoch promises to explain how to bridge [...]
The effervescent, upwardly mobile Ms. Fox has announced that she’s leaving Zillow to become entrepreneur in residence for Seattle-based VC firm Ignition Partners. Vanessa will remain active in the search world, as a new features editor at Search Engine Land. Who’s smiling now? Vanessa Fox seems to be enjoying her new life at Zillow after [...]
“If the Google model is so successful, it seems reasonable to think that everybody should be in the Google business.” — Pixsy CEO Chase Norlin Before founding Pixsy, a media search platform that powers private label image and video search engines for website publishers, Chase Norlin virtually invented YouTube. The year was 1998 and, to [...]
Google’s Vanessa Fox and Amanda Camp are blazing a cyber-trail here in the Emerald Forest that connects Website owners from around the world with the Internet’s leading trailfinder — the Google search engine. The trailhead begins at Google’s Webmaster Central in Kirkland. On a coastal map, it’s a long way between the Bay area of [...]
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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]