Startup Spotlight: Plumage bridges gap between physical retail stores and social media In a world where an increasing number of people are shopping online, retailers have to work harder than ever to… Read More
VIDEO: John Hodgman shows up in rain parka, hijacks Seattle Interactive panel Without even saying a word, John Hodgman had the crowd laughing at the annual Seattle Interactive Conference this morning. Speaking… Read More
Mitt Romney’s remarks about women spark debate on Amazon.com binder page Amazon.com may be best known as an online retailer. But the company’s product pages also host thousands of opinions of… Read More
Tagboard teams up with GoHuskies.com to help aggregate social media While the Washington Huskies were playing football 2,600 miles away against the Louisiana State Tigers in Baton Rouge, Daniel Hour sat in a… Read More
A police scanner for the Twitter generation: Seattle PD introduces ‘Tweets by Beat’ Whenever there’s a disturbance in my Seattle neighborhood, I fire up the online police scanner or visit the hyperlocal news blog… Read More
Geek on the Street: Can Myspace make a comeback? Myspace is attempting a comeback. Yes, you read that right. The former social media kingpin is looking to dust off… Read More
Social media agency Spring Creek Group cuts staff Nearly a year after it was acquired by Interpublic Group’s Mediabrands unit, Seattle social media agency Spring Creek Group has laid… Read More
Controversial Seahawks ending sets off wildfire on Facebook and Twitter The controversy surrounding the end of Seattle’s 14-12 win over Green Bay at CenturyLink Field Monday night certainly did not stop at… Read More
Simply Measured gets frisky, steals Playboy from Radian6 Seattle startup Simply Measured today announced that it has won a key piece of business from rival Radian6, taking over… Read More
Social media agency Ant’s Eye View purchased by PwC Ant’s Eye View, a three-year-old social media agency with operations in Seattle, Austin and Silicon Valley, has agreed to be… Read More
Banyan Branch expands with take over of Nology Media Banyan Branch is adding a new tree limb, announcing today that it is taking over Seattle social media upstart Nology… Read More
Social media monitoring firm Visible Technologies gets $5M Social media monitoring firm Visible Technologies has raised an additional $5.5 million, bringing total funding in the company to $57.5… Read More
Boss signing in to your Facebook account? There’s a law for that Legislatures, state and federal, are starting to react to the trend of employers — at least the creepy employers —… Read More
How big brands can finally fix their massive social media problems It probably shouldn’t come as a surprise that big brands like The Gap or CSV struggle with social media. They… Read More
Can Facebook become a bigger force for social good? Facebook’s announcement today that it will let users update their status to indicate that they’re organ donors might not have… Read More
The latest influence score to obsess over: Klouchebag If you say nothing else about social media, you can at least say it’s developing a sense of humor. Mean?… Read More
Free Klout trips a success, says Seattle tourism bureau What’s the price of influence? It may just be a free trip to Seattle. While the digerati, including Wired in… Read More
Social media firm ReadyPulse names CEO, scores first financing ReadyPulse — a social media firm founded by former Microsoft and Amazon employees Srinivas Penumaka, T Vinod Gupta and Mihir Vaidya… Read More
Social media vet Shauna Causey leaves Nordstrom for Decide.com Decide.com wants to transform the way people shop for consumer electronics, appliances and other products online by telling people the… Read More
Exclusive: Visible Technologies buys Cymfony to bolster social media offerings Visible Technologies is buying Cymfony in a deal that brings together two long-time players in the social media monitoring and analytics… Read More
Direct Impact buys Crowdverb to bolster ‘grassroots’ campaigns Crowdverb, a Seattle social media monitoring startup led by Todd Herman, Sally Poliak and Cyrus Krohn, has been acquired in… Read More
City of Seattle ties for first in web, social media savvy study A study from the University of Illinois at Chicago is giving top marks to the City of Seattle for its… Read More
Fiddling with user timelines: A wrong turn for Twitter? As social web services proliferate, I’m finding Twitter, my first love, the only one that’s truly become a natural feature… Read More
Tech Moves: Medio taps Microsoft vet as chief architect; Zooppa, PATH, etc. Medio Systems is making a big move into the predictive analytics arena, helping gaming, financial services, entertainment and other companies better… Read More
Startup Spotlight: ReadyPulse turns Twitter, Facebook followers into ‘brand advocates’ There’s no shortage of folks developing tools to help companies make sense out of social networking chatter. Last year, Salesforce.com… Read More
New York social media guru Gary Vaynerchuk invests in Prosodic Best-selling author, angel investor and social media expert Gary Vaynerchuk has a very public desire to own The New York Jets. And… Read More
Social media agency Banyan Branch launches media buying group, hires advertising vets We wondered why the social media agency Banyan Branch raised a $1.7 million round of venture capital financing last fall.… Read More
Austin here we come: ‘Don’t die’ and other SXSW goals I’ve got three simple goals for my trip to Austin’s geektastic South by Southwest Interactive Festival this year: To have a great… Read More
The condom of the future? Planned Parenthood offers high-tech rubber with QR code Here’s a social media experiment that we didn’t see coming. Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest has begun distributing 55,000… Read More
Gates Foundation’s Tweets reveal passive, insular global health community Guest Post: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is hosting a number of events today in anticipation of the opening… Read More
