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Comment on Coffee, pictures and gadgets: Inside Coinstar’s bid to build a kiosk empire by Guest

Guest — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:28:00 +0000

Congratulations to Coinstar on this expansion! I’m glad to see that the humble vending machine is getting disrupted by new technology and outside-the-candy-bar-box thinking.

Comment on Too controversial: Why TED won’t post Nick Hanauer’s talk about taxing the rich by Guest

Guest — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:26:00 +0000

I understand and respect both men’s decisions. What confuses me is why, if Nick’s talk is indeed as profound as he thinks it is, he hasn’t performed it to any other audience and videotaped it.

Come on, Nick. You’re in Seattle. Find yourself an audience, get someone to videotape you doing your thing, and pop it on YouTube. Put “THE VIDEO TED DOESN’T WANT YOU TO SEE!” in the title. You’d be an instant celebrity!

Comment on Hey, NYC: There’s a tech hub out here called Seattle by DS Benbow

DS Benbow — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:54:00 +0000

If you’re looking Sea-Tac, I would include internetidentity also…

Comment on ‘The Bachelorette’: KOMO says tweetup boosts ratings by Craig L.

Craig L. — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:46:00 +0000

So wait–social networking can drive more traffic?!? Someone alert the intarpipes!!!

Comment on Microsoft stuck behind Samsung Bada in smartphone sales by Guest

Guest — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:28:00 +0000

Unable to refute the point so trying to redirect to Forbes? Sad.

Comment on Microsoft stuck behind Samsung Bada in smartphone sales by Jon Nehring

Jon Nehring — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:19:00 +0000

Anecdotally speaking, I’ve seen downloads and conversion rate increase on my WP7 apps quite remarkably in the last 6 weeks. That’s despite having no time to update or promote them. (They are also only available in US, UK, CAN, AUS, NZ).

Comment on Coffee, pictures and gadgets: Inside Coinstar’s bid to build a kiosk empire by Christopher Budd

Christopher Budd — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:06:00 +0000

With Gizmo I balk just because I have a natural wariness of refurbished. My mother used to always say when you buy used things you’re buying someone else’s problems.

Granted that was before “factory certified” refurbishment programs, but I still am wary about quality. To their credit on their site, they do offer 14 days to return if you’re not satisfied.
I bet these would do well at airports. People buying something for the flight for entertainment.

Comment on For sale: Lendle e-book lending service for Amazon Kindle by Todd Bishop

Todd Bishop — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:18:00 +0000

Thanks for the link. It hadn’t been widely reported, and they just posted it on the official Lendle blog today.

In the future, feel free to drop us a note whenever you see anything like that — we’re always looking for tips, we love it when readers let us know when they see newsworthy stuff.

Comment on For sale: Lendle e-book lending service for Amazon Kindle by C267079

C267079 — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:12:00 +0000

Old news .. it’s been sitting on the market for two weeks already:

http://brianericford.tumblr.com/post/22195394832/lendle-for-sale

Comment on Hey, NYC: There’s a tech hub out here called Seattle by Vonetc

Vonetc — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:51:00 +0000

If you think of Seattle as a “start-up ecosystem,” then I think it has a ways to go. I like what the folks at Founder’s Co-op are doing; but having been a part of and worked with many tech start-ups in the Boston tech community, what Seattle lacks is a constantly replenishing talent pool that puts talent and ideas above money and connections.

Comment on Hey, NYC: There’s a tech hub out here called Seattle by Victoria

Victoria — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:43:00 +0000

Seattle seems to have a lot of tech/startup enthusiasm but is still in the infant stages of building more of its own organic infrastructure to support them.

Comment on Microsoft CEO Summit: Immelt, Huffington, Buffett and other titans in town by JH

JH — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:40:00 +0000

Yes, all she did was build a media brand from nothing to $315m in 6 years ….what’s noteworthy about that?

Comment on Hey, NYC: There’s a tech hub out here called Seattle by daryn

daryn — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:22:00 +0000

Well, I spent 18 years in Baltimore, so yes, I’m familar with the East Coast :) That said, NYC is the only east coast city I’d really want to live in. I suppose maybe Boston or DC too, but much less so.

As far as “tech” versus “startup”, what do you consider tech? Just software? True, NYC doesn’t have an Amazon or a Microsoft, though both have offices there, but there are massive amounts of technology behind some of the large media and finance companies based there, and they’ve got a lot more later-stage “startups” (say, > 10M active users or > 10M revenue).

Comment on Microsoft stuck behind Samsung Bada in smartphone sales by Mark Gibbs

Mark Gibbs — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:14:00 +0000

for some reason I just don’t beleave these numbers, I don’t think WP is going up fast but its not loosing ground right now with Nokia pushing across the globe..
I think this is mor acruate
http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/15/kaiser-worldpanel-android-dominates-smartphone-sales-overall-in-u-s-ios-closing-in/

Comment on It’s getting even better to be a geek, new survey finds by Mark McLaren

Mark McLaren — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:06:00 +0000

“People who identified themselves as geeks listed pen and paper as the items that would be most difficult for them to live without.” What? Combined with the response suggesting that TV is a technological device comparable to a computer or smartphone (which it is not – mainly because you do not interact with data or humans in the same way via TV as you do via computers and smartphones), this calls the whole survey into question. Exactly what is a geek?

Comment on Hey, NYC: There’s a tech hub out here called Seattle by johnhcook

johnhcook — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:04:00 +0000

I think you have to think of Seattle broader than just startups, and think of the entire ecosystem. I’d love to see this, and I can get you started. I

So, in one camp, you’d have big public companies like: F5, Expedia, Amazon, Microsoft, Concur, Zillow, etc.

Then, in another camp, you’d have all the big Valley companies that are here: Google, Splunk, Hulu, Facebook, eBay, Zynga, EA, EMC, Jawbone, RichRelevance, etc.

Then, you’d have the up-and-comers, many of whom we featured at the Seattle 2.0 Awards. Companies like: Zulily, Z2Live, Tableau Software, Redfin, Decide.com, Apptio, Opscode, Cheezburger, SEOMoz, INRIX, Valve, Gylmpse, Has Offers, Symform, Big Door, Datasphere, etc.

I’d love to see this graphic, and we’d give you a shout out on GW if you created. What other companies should be on here?

Comment on Hey, NYC: There’s a tech hub out here called Seattle by Mikey Tom

Mikey Tom — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:03:00 +0000

This just in, Daryn moving to the Big Apple after hearing about Tony Wright’s move to the Valley ; )

Comment on Hey, NYC: There’s a tech hub out here called Seattle by johnhcook

johnhcook — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:53:00 +0000

If you think of Seattle simply as a “startup ecosystem,” then you may have a point. But in my view NYC doesn’t hold a candle to the entire “tech ecosystem” of Seattle. I can’t think of one major tech titan that’s based there. They may be grooming them, but they aren’t there yet.

The East Coast, really? Have you spent time there? I don’t think so.

Comment on Windows Phone U.S. market share slipped prior to Lumia 900 release by santosh

santosh — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:41:00 +0000

Since these are single core phones wiht better OS they are cheaper which is a plus and they can give away any no of phones for free as long as people ready to take them.
They are looking for a point to introduce win 8 phones which will be multicore and head to head for android and all cell phone companies will make win 8 phones making its market bigger.

Comment on Hey, NYC: There’s a tech hub out here called Seattle by ash bhoopathy

ash bhoopathy — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:32:00 +0000

If someone has a list of those companies, I’d volunteer some time to create the iconic Seattle image.

However, like Daryn i really lament the list will be very long. We’ll have a few companies that are covering the space needle, is about all…. :-)

Comment on ‘The Bachelorette’: KOMO says tweetup boosts ratings by preferred user

preferred user — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:28:00 +0000

DId she They mean Tweets up or tits up ? . same thing.

Comment on Is Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer really America’s worst CEO? by preferred user

preferred user — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:22:00 +0000

What about JP Morgan, AIG,Goldman Satan and the others? remember the meltdown it was/is a lot worse than the Micro$oft thing ……… oh they can’t fire Jamie Over at JP he is Obama’s buddy they need him to run interference between the banksters (themselves ) and regulators oh… sH%$# what was I thinking what regulators where were they before and during the meltdown JP and Goldman Satan own the FED and the SEC SH&^T they ARE the FED and the SEC by proxy if you think about it.

Comment on Is Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer really America’s worst CEO? by preferred user

preferred user — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:18:00 +0000

What about JP Morgan, AIG,Goldman Satan and the others remember the meltdown it was/is a lot worse than the Micro$oft thing ……… oh they can’t fire Jamie Over at JP he is Obama’s buddy they need him to run interference between the banksters (themselves ) and regulators oh… sH%$# what was I thinking what regulators where were they before and during the meltdown JP and Goldman Satan own the FED and the SEC SH&^T they ARE the FED and the SEC by proxy if you think about it.

Comment on Microsoft stuck behind Samsung Bada in smartphone sales by john

john — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:03:00 +0000

Your moving to a platform with an even worse reputation of updates?

Comment on Microsoft stuck behind Samsung Bada in smartphone sales by Guest

Guest — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:01:00 +0000

and boy doesn’t it look good! :)