Milestone: Geocaching.com approaches 2M geocaches

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Wow — this is a lot of canisters, log sheets and trackables. Geocaching.com, the database of record for the worldwide geocaching community, is poised to reach a major milestone in a matter of days: 2 million active geocaches. The online service, maintained by Seattle-based Groundspeak, expects to cross the 2 million mark sometime this Saturday,… Read More…

Launch Pads: Groundspeak, center of the geocache universe

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It’s a big month for Groundspeak, the Seattle company in the middle of the geocaching boom. On Saturday Aug. 18, a little more than a week from now, geocachers from around the world will descend on Groundspeak’s home in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood for the 2012 Geocaching Block Party, on International Geocaching Day. Geocaching is a… Read More…

GeekWire Radio: High-tech football, T-Mobile’s future, inside the world of geocaching

Jeremy Irish, co-founder and CEO of Groundspeak.

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we talk about the UW football team’s use of high-tech cameras to gain a competitive edge; the Justice Department’s move to block the AT&T/T-Mobile merger; Amazon.com’s new Kindle feature for asking authors questions from inside books; and the second life for the HP TouchPad. Our guest… Read More…

Release your inner geek: Weekend events offer something for the dork in all of us

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Geek levels will be absolutely off the charts on Saturday in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood as a series of events promise everything from interactive bingo to geocaching to an outdoor version of the popular Ignite talks. Things will get rolling at 11 a.m. with the Geocaching Block Party, with more than 1,400 location-hunting geeks from around… Read More…