Start the Insanity and Startup Weekend
Stop the Insanity -- and the presses. 2008 will mark the return of fitness and weight-loss guru Susan Powter -- only this time Powter...
Apple’s Starbuck’s Brew
Starbucks and Apple launched their iTunes partnership on Tuesday in both Seattle and New York.
Seattle's Glenn Fleishman reports that the Apple-Starbucks iTunes offering will...
Classmates Dropping Out and ListentoYourWife.calm
Is Classmates.com a casualty of the Facebook revolution? In what seems to be a death knell to the first pure-play social networking IPO in...
Instant Journalists, AdReady, Twenty20
Seattle's Instivate has announced the official launch of a new online service that allows anyone to create their own news Website to gather and...
Cyber Monday & Rekindling Reading
Retail sales were stronger than expected over the Thanksgiving holiday as shoppers crammed early-morning sales and hit their computers to shop online.
Retailers hope that...
Predictions, Predictions
Google's stock will top $900 next year. Online voting won't happen in our lifetime. And Microsoft Corp. will make a big push into virtualization,...
Checking into Hotel 1000 and Faces.com
In the trend to keep up with a wired clientelle, Seattle's Hotel 1000 is leading the pack, at least on the West coast, according...
FCC’s Last Outpost, Microsoft/SEMPO Alliance
The FCC is coming to Seattle for its final public hearing on Media Consolidation. The hearing, the last of just six across the nation,...
Microsoft Wins Facebook Bid for 1% Stake, JudysBook Shutters
Microsoft has won a high-profile technology industry battle with Google and Yahoo to invest in the social networking upstart Facebook. The two companies said...
CleverSet “Best of Show” & Jott the Vote
A featured attraction of the annual Web 2.0 Summit is a Launch Pad competition pitting six start-ups against one another before an American Idol-like...
MSNBC Buys Newsvine, Costco Hits $1B!
Making the first acquisition in its 11-year history, MSNBC.com, a joint venture between Microsoft and the NBC Universal division of GE, is diving into...
HistoryLink Springs Eternal
One of the the early Link columns penned in Seattle magazine by yours truly was a subject I'll never forget. It was an appointment...
Microsoft Searchification
Which was the bigger event for Microsoft this week? The launch of Halo 3 for Xbox 360 and the chance to have bagged an...
Starbucks Gives Away Music, SEOmoz Equity
Starbucks Corp. plans to give away 50 million free digital songs to customers in all of its domestic coffee houses to promote a new...
Microsoft’s Westward Ho Into Seattle Digs
East will soon meet west where Microsoft is concerned, and we're not talking about the company's inroads into mainland China. The Microserfs are venturing...
Corbis Campaigning in Ad Space and Virtual Space
Two new creative campaigns from Corbis illustrate the iconoclastic creative mojo the stock image company is conjuring inside Seattle's Dexter Horton building. The new...
CancerMatch Writer and MySpace Tour Kickoff
Local blogger and cancer patient Jeanne Sather has posted a personal ad to her blog, The Assertive Cancer Patient, advertising for a Canadian husband.
"If...
Seattle Domain Tools Auction Sets Record
With over 1,200 people online and 300 in the live audience, the sponsor of the Seattle Domain Name Rdountable hosted the most viewers of...
Wonder of Wanders, Zeenami Tsunami
How walkable is your neighborhood? Walkscore.com ranks communities nationwide (and soon, globally) based on how many businesses, parks, theaters, schools and other common destinations...
Amazon Flexes Its Payments, WSA Adds Five
Ka-ching! Amazon is rolling out a new web service for online payments which will compete with PayPal and Google Checkout. The new program is...
Nokia’s Twango and adCenter Parameters
Nokia Corp. is jumping into the social networking market, establishing a presence right here in Emerald City with the acquisition of Twango Inc.
Twango, which...
Two Home Grown Sites Acquired
Small is the new big, according to Internet consultant Seth Godin, whose marketing manual of the same name will soon appear in paperback. The...
Microsoft Search Share is Most Prized
What's Brewing
7.16.07
Microsoft Search Share Increase Is Most Prized
During the recent Search Marketing Expo Advanced conference, I got a chance to ask new Microsoft Search...
Dreamliner Debs Over Webcast
The unveiling of Boeing's newest high-tech jetliner, the 787 Dreamliner occurred with great fanfare and the world watching yesterday. Tom Brokaw, of NBC Nightly...
World Cyber Games are Coming!
Microsoft introduced two new online services to its Windows Live line-up on Tuesday and said it plans to release more Web offerings this year...
Picniking with BetterPhotos
Picnik.com has announced a free public beta of the first completely Web-based photo editing and sharing application to give users everywhere the ability to...
Yapta, Mediaroom and Travel Search
Just as one world-class Seattle search conference wraps up, another is queuing up right behind. Hot on the heels of SMX Advanced, the competing...
Avvo, nuTsie and Pandora’s Box
Avvo, the new national online rating service for attorneys, opened its doors last week, not with a beta but with a bang. Founder Mark...
SMX Advanced Seattle
It was a long time coming, but, this week, Seattle played host to its first, full-fledged search marketing conference, Search Marketing Expo Advanced. As...
Microsoft’s Record-Setting Acquisition
In the biggest acquisition in the company's history, Microsoft has announced that it is acquiring aQuantive, the Seattle-based online advertising services firm, in an...
60 Minutes and Top 10 Seattle Investments
Did you catch Redin CEO Glenn Kelman on Sunday's 60 Minutes? "Real estate, by far, is the most screwed up industry in America," said...
Efinancial.com Uses Internet “Best Practices” to Rank as One of Washington’s, and America’s, Most...
When Washington CEO magazine set out to identify the leaders of a new breed of Internet company - one that exemplified the "best practices"...
HotMail Debs, ZenZui Wows
Microsoft formally launches Windows Live Hotmail this week, rolling out the new Web-based e-mail service to customers who are not already using it in...
Boycott Beijing
Seattle24x7 is proud to add our voice, as well as our community spirit, to a strong call to action for the Chinese government and...
Amazon, Google, Entellium on a Roll
Entellium has introduced its next generation CRM software tool designed to help small sales organizations sell more effectively. Titled Rave (ravecrm.com) the ASP-based software...
Microsoft Data Center Bets the Farm
In a century-old farming town in central Washington state, Microsoft has built a farm for the Internet age. But don't be on the lookout...
Google Local, Zillow Home Q&A
Google Voice Local Search is Google’s latest bid to make local-business search accessible over the phone.
To try the free service, just dial 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411)...
BestBuy Acquires Speakeasy
The nation's largest standalone seller of electronics has paid $97 million to acquire Seattle-based Speakeasy, America's leading indepdenent broadbant Internet service provider and...
Zoodango, Remote Control Mail
The rush to build Web 2.0 technologies reminds some observers of the wild run-up to the Internet bubble during the late 1990s.However, users and...
Use Microsoft Search, Get Free Products
How does Microsoft challenge Google's hegemony in Web search in its unaccustomed role as a challenger brand? The answer is a caculated one. One...
