Guest Commentary: I have a ton of work to do today. But I’m spending most of my day on the golf course instead. Today is the annual Washington Technology Industry… Read More
Earlier this week, Fusible.com uncovered a Microsoft splash page at Socl.com which appeared to be part of a larger social search strategy at the software giant. Curious, I checked out… Read More
Fresh off its $30 million venture capital round, Seattle-based Lockerz has purchased AddToAny for an undisclosed amount. AddToAny, whose free widget is used by online publishers, describes itself as the… Read More
Guest Post: Today, President Obama participated in the first White House Town Hall on Twitter. The White House asked people to participate by sending their questions via Twitter using the… Read More
One of the more interesting angles on Facebook’s rollout of a new Skype video chat feature today is Microsoft’s role as a big player in the background — as the… Read More
Twitter will be in the spotlight today, along with President Obama, as the company and the White House present a “Twitter Town Hall,” a live webcast in which Obama will… Read More
Zynga, the maker of FarmVille, CityVille and Words With Friends, filed for an initial public offering today that could add $1 billion to its coffers. The fast-growing social gaming powerhouse… Read More
Editor’s note: Peter Boctor was part of a crowd of Seattle software developers who attended Mark Zuckerberg’s talk in Seattle on Wednesday evening. He provides an overview in this guest… Read More
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in Seattle today, visiting the company’s fledgling office across the street the Pike Place Market — its only major engineering center outside of its Palo… Read More
Facebook routinely hosts “tech talks” at its new downtown Seattle office space, a way to engage with the community and recruit smart engineers. But today’s talk will feature a special… Read More
So many people are on Facebook. How are they going to get them to switch? It’s going to have to be pretty great. That was the immediate reaction in my… Read More
Could this signal a deeper alliance between Facebook and Microsoft? That’s how we’re reading the news today that Netflix founder Reed Hastings has joined the board of Facebook. Hastings already… Read More
You may have heard of Yammer, which allows co-workers to share documents, instant message and manage tasks in a protected online environment. Now, Bellevue’s MangoSpring is looking to take a… Read More
The rise of free online alternatives to traditional cable television means the big cable operators will need to roll out user-experience innovations to keep those users in the fold. Cable… Read More
The way people spend their time online is changing with the rise of social networking sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter. That’s the latest from comScore, which just… Read More
Startup Weekend typically draws an interesting cast of characters. After all, you’ve got to be a little nutty (or at least a startup junky) to try to build a new… Read More
Our guests on the latest GeekWire Podcast were the husband-and-wife duo of Monica Guzman Preston of Intersect and Jason Preston of Parnassus Group — two early adopters and power users of social media.… Read More
Microsoft releases a teaser trailer for Halo 4. Master Chief is still a mega hunk, sporting a mega gun. Tetris had a birthday earlier this week (27 years old!).… Read More
Even with the rise of Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, people still like to conduct business in face-to-face meetings at conferences and events. But, these days, attendees also want to incorporate… Read More
A new study out from the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows that 13 percent of online adults are using Twitter, up from eight percent in November of last… Read More
In this era of browser apps and mobile devices, here’s some news that cuts against the grain. A new Facebook development team, based in the company’s fledgling Seattle engineering office,… Read More
Viafo reminds us a bit of the old BASF marketing line about “not making the products you buy, just making the products you buy better.” The Seattle upstart is trying… Read More
Technology was supposed to make people more productive. But a new study out from market research firm uSamp indicates that some of the social networking, mobile and collaboration technologies that… Read More
There have been some shifts in the “geosocial universe” in recent days, with LinkedIn going public and Microsoft gobbling up Skype. (Maybe this apocalypse thing really is gonna happen). The… Read More
LinkedIn’s stock more than doubled in its stock market debut Thursday, rising from the $45 offering price to a high of $122 before closing the day at $94.25. It starts its… Read More
Facebook will be the first company outside of Microsoft to roll out the Redmond company’s PhotoDNA technology — a move that the companies are describing as a big step in… Read More
Netscape’s 1995 IPO was the start of what many considered the beginning of the Internet boom. Did LinkedIn just create the 2011 equivalent? The 8-year-old social networking giant today priced its… Read More
If you’re new to a city or just looking to find some interesting people to chat with, a new service that’s coming to Seattle on June 8th might be worth putting… Read More
Fast-growing, youth-oriented social networking site Lockerz has been undergoing a serious growth spurt since moving its headquarters from Pittsburgh to Seattle. And now the 70-person company — backed with more… Read More
I am really curious to see how this turns out. At 4 p.m. today, the Seattle/Bellingham band Death Cab for Cutie plans to conduct what it is calling the “first… Read More