Film. Paint and Dentsu

Seattle’s RealNetworks has launched a new film and entertainment news site, Film.com, featuring film previews, movie trailers, DVD releases, and coverage of television programming...

Peusing Perooz, Redfin and Expedia

Seattle-based Perooz.com is ascending the cusp of mobile entertainment stardom by importing print-zines and a medley of other content to the portable iPod, and...

Jennifer Hodgdon and Poplar ProductivityWare Practice Good Science and Social Science

What do AT&T's Bell Labs, Wall Street's Goldman Sachs, the "Language Bank" of the American Red Cross and Seattle's Literary Source have in common? For...

Google, UW and the Universe

In a move of inter-galactic proportions, the planet’s leading search engine has announced a partnership with the University of Washington, among others in academia,...

Viva Las CES

The annual Consumer Electronics Show has become the bellwether for high tech bets and bluffs for the year ahead. Once again this year, Bill...

Powerless Utilities

The damage caused by the 2006 pre-holiday windstorm which swept through the Puget Sound region masks the troubling infrastructure being propped up by Seattle...

Seattle First City of Search 2.0

The founder of the acclaimed Search Engine Strategies industry symposia, Danny Sullivan, is launching a newly branded search engine marketing conference series. The new...

Asking for the Best City Search

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is planning a $328 million expansion of its global libraries initiative that will bring free Internet access and...

CyberMonday 2006

Amazon.com was disrupted for about 15 minutes, starting at about 2 p.m. EST Thanksgiving day, as the retailer offered Microsoft's Xbox 360 game console...

Holiday Insurances

Leave it to a talented E-book writer to make things E-asier to accomplish on T-Day -- Thanksgiving dinner that is! Take Control E-book publishers Adam...

Amazon Minding Your Business

A recent column in VentureBeat by Baris Karadogan, a partner at ComVentures, discusses Amazon.com’s latest initiative to provide early stage businesses with storage and...

Election Day Funnies

Seattle's Filmateria Studios has launched three new media properties that promise to help Democrats and Republicans come together… at least for a laugh or...

IE vs. Firefox, Battle Royale

Now that Internet Explorer 7 has been released the world is making note of its position in the Net search hierarchy, starting with the...

EZGigs, Shelfari & CSI Seattle

The Puget Sound has welcomed yet another new real estate brokerage that leverages technology like Redfin and Zillow while maintaining a high level of...

Hear! Here! A New Era!

At the just concluded Advertising Week 2006 in New York, Microsoft unveiled a new unified global advertising initiative packaging the full suite of media-enabled...

iLike.com’s All-Star Cast

Like.com has launched the first social music discovery service designed for iTunes and iPod users. iLike helps people discover new music and share their...

Vizrea and Microsoft Hardware

Vizrea Corp. has announced its new, next-generation social network service that lets people share their life from anywhere. With Vizrea, users can now share...

Zune, Nordstrom & the Seattle Mystique

With a finger on the pulse of the Seattle i-marketing scene, Seattle24x7 has launched Seattle-Search.com as our ongoing blog. Be sure and check it...

Unbox, StashSpace & Venture Q&A

Seattle24x7 is proud to welcome entrepreneur advocate, analyst, business consultant and columnist Susan Schreter to a new feature for our readers. Each week, Venture...

Meet the Dot Connector of Blue Dot

Meet the Dot Connector of Blue Dot Connecting the dots comes naturally to Kabir Shahani. As one of the inner circle of Blue Dot,...

T-Mobile 3G and A-9 R.I.P.

Bellevue's T-Mobile USA, the fourth largest U.S. carrier, is expected to announce that it will begin to roll out 3G services, which provides high-speed...

Brainy & Literate Seattle

The city of Seattle's Web site was named the best in the nation by The Center for Digital Government. The award will be presented at...

Facing the Future with Facebook

Facing the reality that Google had made a grand-slam advertising deal with MySpace, Microsoft went out and did the next best thing --  landed...

Snakes on a Plane Ground Connexion

The obituary has been written for Internet in the skies, at least so far as Boeing is concerned. The Big B has pulled the...

Master of the Web Domain Name

If domain names are the real estate of the Internet, you could think of Jothan Frakes as one part urban developer, one part architect...

Search Engines Seattle

The annual Search Engine Strategies (SES) conference, San Jose, CA. edition, came off last week in fine fashion with leading Bay area sponsor Google...

Adhost Joins with Seattle24x7

Two of the names that have become synonymous with the Seattle Internet experience are joining efforts. Adhost Internet, a leading provider of colocation and...

Web 2.0 or Dead 2.0?

Yes, he is a confessed contrarian and self-incriminating skeptic. But with those cards face up on the table, the author behind the decidedly anti-Web...

Seattle’s Top Forty and Coming Zune

Microsoft has publicly disclosed plans to release a new music and entertainment player and accompanying software under the "Zune" brand this year, in an...

Rhapsody Gets Jammin’

Microsoft is set to form an assault on video-sharing websites, including the hugely successful YouTube.com by launching a new service that will allow users...

Emerge, Xoom and Zaaz!

“We make games for the rest of us,” proclaimed Rob Glaser, founder/CEO of RealNetworks during his Casuality Seattle keynote June 27 in Seattle, Washington....

Starbucks goes to L.A.

Starbucks will relocate its Entertainment unit to Santa Monica from its current Seattle base and has hired music industry whiz Alan Mintz to head...

Blue Dot Connects at Gnomedex

Gnomedex Gnotes — Presidential hopeful and former North Carolina U.S. senator John Edwards took the stage last week at the sixth annual Gnomedex proceedings...

Pluggd Plugs In

Seattle-based start-up Pluggd.com has opened their podcast directory for public use. The service aims to make podcast listening easier for non-technical users. Pluggd crawls...

Scoble (then Gates) Takes a Bow

Microsoft's leading evangelist in the blogosphere and a founder of the video blogging movement, Robert Sdcoble, aka The Scoblelizer, has decided to leave the...

Washington Poker Hands Fold

As of June 7, it is now a felony in the state of Washington to play poker on the Internet. The bill, S.S.B. No. 6613,...

Socialization of Search

Search marketing's gone social. I'm not just talking about the consumer-driven, new layer of social engineering. Like the you-rate-it brand of Yahoo! Local or...

SIFF, Seats and DaVinci

May 25th marks the opening of the 32nd Annual Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF). Running a full 25 days, with 418 feature length and...

MSN Re-Search Revisited

Two years after conceding his company erred in failing to develop its own search engine, Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer boasted Thursday of...

Camping of Minds, Bubblicious, StockDrop

Attracting a second sold-out crowd of Seattle coders, developers, inventors and innovators, the 2006 edition of Seattle's MindCamp stirred the campfires of entrepreneurial zeal...