Vloggers’ time to shine? Chris Pirillo’s new event will bring YouTube stars together

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One morning last weekend, Judy Travis got out of bed, scooped up her five-month-old daughter and reflected on why she was upset with her husband, Benji, for leaving the room overnight to sleep downstairs while the baby was crying. I watched every second. Judy and Benji are among Seattle’s most popular vloggers. While I get… Read More…

Carly Foulkes vs. Chris Pirillo: T-Mobile tries a new type of advertising campaign

Is this the face of the coolest wireless company?

Carly Foulkes has been the public face of T-Mobile for a few years now, but the motorcycle-riding Carly is now getting a little competition in the form of Seattle uber geek and video blogger Chris Pirillo. Pirillo, who has run the site LockerGnome since 1996, is the star of a 3-minute ad  for the Bellevue-based carrier…. Read More…

‘Real user’ tries Windows 8: ‘They trying to drive me to Mac?’

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Chris Pirillo, of LockerGnome fame, was trying to make a point when he sat his dad down in front of a Windows 8 machine for the first time, and had him try to navigate back to the new Start screen from the traditional Windows desktop. After four minutes, his dad gives up, and Chris makes… Read More…

Event highlights iPad stands, robots and other gadgets

The TouchFire keyboard for iPad

Despite the release of Amazon’s new Kindle Fire and the success of Microsoft’s Kinect, Seattle at it’s core is very much a software town. That’s kind of why we were interested in a new event Wednesday night in Seattle’s Sodo district. The free event, hosted by Seattle tech guru Chris Pirillo, will feature four gadgets… Read More…

Gnomedex back from another near-death experience

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Fans of Chris Pirillo’s Gnomedex conference will be happy to hear that it’s coming back for at least one more year, as a companion event to the new Seattle Interactive Conference in early November in downtown Seattle. Pirillo shared the news with us on this past weekend’s GeekWire podcast and radio show, and his longtime… Read More…

GeekWire Radio: Apple, Facebook and more, with Frank Catalano, Chris Pirillo

Chris Pirillo and Frank Catalano point fingers after the show in the KIRO studios (Erynn Rose photo)

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we put Steve Jobs’ resignation as Apple CEO into perspective and listen back to a classic moment from a classic product introduction by the Apple co-founder. We also talk about the latest Facebook privacy change and get some very interesting news about the future of the… Read More…