A creative explosion set for Tuesday: Sir Mix-A-Lot meets Giant Thinkwell

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This is going to be fun to watch. The creative forces of Sir Mix-A-Lot and Giant Thinkwell are set to collide next Tuesday as they unveil a new social media game called Mix-N-Match that taps into the star power of the Seattle rapper. Giant Thinkwell, a developer of celebrity-based games and a recent graduate of TechStars,… Read More…

A night at the Seattle 2.0 Awards: Watch the speeches of the 10 winners

Cliff Kushler, left, and Mike McSherry of Swype at last year's Seattle 2.0 Startup Awards

Seattle’s startup community partied Thursday night at the annual Seattle 2.0 Awards, a celebration of the region’s top tinkerers, geeks, designers and investors. Team GeekWire was there in full force, recording a special podcast from the red carpet and shooting some video of geek fashion (Check out Estately CEO Galen Ward’s pink shirt, SEOMoz founder… Read More…

Rewind: Can these 3 funny guys build a viable startup?

The Giant Thinkwell team on the GeekWire podcast earlier this year.

There’s no question that the guys at Seattle startup Giant Thinkwell are funny, as evidenced by their April Fool’s Day stunt outside of the Amazon.com headquarters. But can they build a successful business? That’s one of the questions we tried to pin them down on during the GeekWire Podcast this past weekend. Joining us were… Read More…

GeekWire Podcast: Allen vs. Gates, Amazon Cloud Drive, Giant Thinkwell +1

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This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we recap a strange week in tech news, including our first glimpse of Paul Allen’s autobiography, telling all about Bill Gates; Amazon.com’s effort to push deeper into the music industry, minus the support of the major record labels; and the trouble with Facebook encountered by Seattle startup Zapd. Joining… Read More…