When writing, it’s sometimes easy to be wordy and use unnecessary phrases. A Seattle startup is out to fix that problem with a click of a button. WordRake is a software that scans documents and suggests edits for more clear and concise statements. The City of Seattle announced today that it has implemented WordRake to help several departments… Read More…
Here’s your chance to help guide the City of Seattle’s strategies and investments in technology and telecommunications. The City is looking for volunteers to join the Citizens’ Telecommunications and Technology Advisory Board (CTTAB). The ten-member board and its committees discuss and advise the Mayor and City Council on a multitude of issues, including broadband deployment and adoption, mobile… Read More…
When the National Weather Service issued a blizzard warning for the Cascades on Sunday afternoon, a lot of Seattle-area smartphone owners received an alert that was long on drama and short on details. The alerts came in various shapes and forms but were confusing to people who looked out the window and saw rain and… Read More…
It was the mobile-app version of the Oscars last night at City Hall, as the awards for the first-ever Evergreen Apps Challenge were handed out to local developers. With Mayor Mike McGinn, King County Executive Dow Constantine and Governor Chris Gregoire (via video) all on hand, more than $75,000 in prize money was split between… Read More…
Well, here’s a very peculiar story with an odd twist. Two months ago we reported that the U.S. Department of State had planned to award a 5-year, $16.5 million contract to Amazon.com to put tens of thousands of Kindle electronic readers into educational centers around the world. The goal was to use the e-readers to help… Read More…
In theory, it sounded like a great idea. Get a bunch of geeks on one of the state’s iconic white and green ferries for a summer crossing where developers could work on new government-related apps along the way. But today’s Geeks on a Ferry event, initially scheduled to kick off from Seattle’s Colman Dock today… Read More…
Ready, set, develop. The City of Seattle, King County and Washington State officially kicked off the first-ever Evergreen Apps Challenge today, a competition in which geeks from around Washington state are encouraged to build new travel, transportation, recycling or other apps that could benefit those living here. We first wrote about the competition back in May when… Read More…
Requests for H1-B visas, the controversial 22-year-old program that allows skilled workers into the U.S. to complete temporary jobs, are increasingly being made by large corporations in the fields of science, engineering and technology. In fact, a new report out from the Brookings Institution finds that a whopping 47 percent of requests were in computer-related… Read More…
Facebook just isn’t about browsing photos of friends. A new initiative in Washington state actually might have a higher purpose: Allowing citizens to register to vote. The Associated Press reports that the Secretary of State’s Office next week plans to launch a new effort whereby individuals can register to vote. “In this age of social… Read More…
Anyone who has stepped foot near Amazon.com’s new headquarters in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood can feel the change happening around them. Perhaps no neighborhood in the city is undergoing such a radical overhaul. And now Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn is touting that growth, saying that the redevelopment of the once gritty neighborhood is adding… Read More…
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