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

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

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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

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

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...

Bill Gates introduced Chinese president Hu Jintao to Seattle industry and hospitality during remarks in Everett last week. After describing a bit of Hu's...

The world's brightest domain name owners will gain valuable insight at the second annual Domain Roundtable Conference powering up April 19th at the new...

WashTech President Marcus Courtney arrived in Washington D.C. in March, just as details about Rep. Arlen Specter’s (R-Penn.) plan to expand the H1-B...

IIn a move certainly unprecedented in the local marketing communications industry, global giant WPP has consolidated its five Seattle subsidiaries — and a staff...

Having survived the dot.com boilover by switching to a healthy diet of popular cooking recipes, Seattle's Allrecipes.com was founed to be good for the...

As reported in the P-I, Seattle-area ravers flocked to the Internet Saturday to learn whether people they knew had been killed in Saturday's Capitol...

On Friday, the P-I's John Cook wrote about Hyperboy, a Seattle-based start-up that is trying to do everything MySpace does and adding a liberal...

Andru Edwards lives and works at the intersection of today's chip-smart consumer electronics and network-savvy digital lifestyle. At GearLive.com, the popular blog he founded for...

  Seeking out the finer things in life in the Emerald City of Seattle, not to mention Portland, Whistler, Vancouver, Hawaii or Las Vegas? Seattle impresario...

The brainstorm Bram Cohen had about sharing large files over the Internet makes even the usual February cloudbursts and tempests outside his Bellevue,...

Patricia Belyea is wired for the Web. The ebullient Seattle personality has been a fixture on the Northwest design circuit for more than two...

The spawning of a new era in search engine technology can be found far upstream of the teeming reservoirs of Google, Yahoo!, Inktomi or...

Donna Shirley knows the path to Mars. As program manager for the Mars Exploration Program for NASA, Donna was the original leader of the team...

As the thirty-something president of The Hacker Group, Spyro Kourtis works hard to differentiate the firm, which under his tenure has grown to be...

"Open Sesame," the orthodontist beckons, angling for a better look at the inner workings of your teeth and jaw so that he can go...

As author of The Content Management Bible, a gospel on how to organize and publish information in the Internet age, Bob Boiko is something...

As one for whom the term netrepreneur or infopreneuer could have been created, John Jerome has seen the white light of business innovation converge...

"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...

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...

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)...

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...

The Web has spawned a plethora of new ideas in publishing information, only one of which is the garden variety Website. Web "blogs," which...

When the focus is on Web usability, marketing and commerce for Getty Images, Kasz Maciag, Vice President Marketing Website Development, is the one behind...

As the Senior Product Manager at Loudeye who is responsible for the launch of the Loudeye Express Web conferencing solution, Colin Garvey is helping...

"Your message, any screen." That's the tagline underscoring the impressive work of Melinda Partin and Seattle's Worktank -- a rich-media strategy and production agency...

For Celeste Combs, founder of The Experience Group, helping clients succeed in e-commerce means not only helping them understand usability, for which she is a...

Like Lewis or Clark (and their significant other Sacagawea), the Northwest explorers whose search skills brought them to settle in the Pacific Northwest, Internet...

There are those on the Puget Sound Internet scene for whom first name recognition will suffice: Bill, Paul, Rob, Jeff, Dakotta. Dakotta? Dakotta Alex is...

his hand. Jon Lisbin gets to knows downtown Tokyo like the back of his hand For Jon Lisbin, the key to success...

From the slopes of Mount Kiliminjaro in Kenya to the land of the snow leopard in Mongolia and Central Asia, Rob Holmes has travelled...

In the current edition of Communication Arts, Karl Bischoff takes up the question of economic recovery, analyzing the key economic indicators ("the ones that...