Within a few days of Facebook announcing plans to build a residential housing community that is walking distance to a sprawling Menlo Park, Calif. campus described by the Wall Street Journal as already, “so… Read More
Microsoft. Amazon. Expedia. These are among the tech giants that are household names and have grown and flourished in the Pacific Northwest. Another generation—companies like Mobisante, Inrix and BYNDL—are raising… Read More
In his new book Knowledge and Power, futurist George Gilder challenges existing economic theories of both Keynesians and libertarians by placing creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship at the center of economic development. In… Read More
[Editor’s Note: This guest post by tech writer and editor Matt Rosoff originally appeared on his personal blog.] So you’re moving from San Francisco to Seattle? Or from Seattle to… Read More
George RR Martin’s world of Game of Thrones is full of dragons, zombies, and magic. These are fun, but not the point. The reason the show speaks to us so… Read More
Back in 2011, The Name Inspector wrote a post about the proliferation of startup names that make creative use of the suffix -ify, such as Spotify. At the time, he deemed the trend… Read More
When we release software to customers, we immediately begin to consider how to monitor it. The goal is to find problems as early as possible, and always before our customers.… Read More
Editor’s note: This post is part of a series by Tren Griffin, a senior director at Microsoft who previously worked at Craig McCaw’s Eagle River. Other posts include “A dozen… Read More
In 2009, we tried to raise money. We talked to people at 40 different firms. We had second meetings with 16 of the partners we spoke to. And at the… Read More
Now the story of a Microsoft family who lost their wife and mother, and the daughter who had no choice but to find her. It’s Where’d You Go Bernadette. With… Read More
We come across a cornucopia of articles, white papers and blog posts on workplace culture, with inspiring examples from companies like Zappos, Facebook and Google as well as innovative ideas… Read More
After months of research, a lean development cycle, and a beta program, TINYpulse launched publicly last November. In April, I was recapping for my advisors what I learned in the… Read More
We hoped it was an April Fool’s joke. Seattle production company One Reel announced today that the city’s 2013 annual Family 4th fireworks show is off, done, over, because it… Read More
Three years ago I was at a dinner and an entrepreneur was telling me and the VP of Marketing of a successful startup how there weren’t enough marketing folks in… Read More
Happy Data Privacy Day. Or maybe another way to think of it is Happy Halloween in January. After attending this week’s Data Privacy Day Town Hall meeting at the Seattle… Read More
Commentary: I spent much of Saturday trying to reconcile two very different approaches to justice meted out by the Obama Administration. The first is old (mid-December) news: British bank HSBC… Read More
In the winter of 2009, Seattle was the center of a global maelstrom that has yet to bottom out: the collapse of the advertiser-supported business model that funded mainstream journalism.… Read More
Jenni Hogan wants to change the way you interact with news — and the way it interacts with you. With a vision for connectivity, communication, and entrepreneurship — not to… Read More
So driverless cars are to be street legal in California! I thought it would be fun to look “under the hood,” so to speak, at the text of the legislation… Read More
Last year I wrote an article titled, “Why I own an Android Phone.” To summarize, the article described people’s fascination when they discovered that I (an iOS app developer and… Read More
No matter which side of the aisle you sit on*, today’s ruling by the Supreme Court to uphold the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, is a big deal for the… Read More
It’s hard enough to stay productive in the office or at your desk – with your full array of resources, hardware and professional creature comforts surrounding you. But when you’re… Read More
The victim of a shooting in Seattle’s Central District Thursday has been identified as Justin Ferrari, a father of two who worked for the past three months as a software… Read More
You’ve heard it (or probably said it) many times before: “I can’t wait to get out of all these meetings so I can actually get some work done!” Meetings are… Read More
Changing jobs can be scary and confusing. Everybody has things that are important to them at a particular point in their career. Thinking clearly about what is important to you… Read More
Whether you perpetually have hundreds if not thousands of emails in your inbox, or you’re coming back from a long weekend or true, “unplugged” extended vacation, you have a problem.… Read More
On Twitter’s corporate blog yesterday, the company’s engineering infrastructure VP Adam Messinger wrote that Twitter intends to implement an “Innovator’s Patent Agreement,” or “IPA,” which he characterizes as “a new way to… Read More
Chief Technology Officer Bill Schrier announced his retirement today after more than 30 years of service to the city. “Bill Schrier has been an effective and innovative leader in helping… Read More
I love paper. I hate paper. Independent of format, print or digital, what I want is information at my fingertips when I need it, wherever I am. I want instant… Read More
Emerald City Comicon is coming up this weekend, March 30-April 1. This year the event is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and this looks to be the best one yet. To… Read More