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Some people come away from technology conferences with ideas for businesses. Scotto Moore came away from one with an idea for a book, which evolved into a play -- which opens in Seattle next week.
And it's a pretty fascinating concept, exploring what happens when an inventor develops a cult following for her digital emotions, or "emoticlips," as she calls them. Moore, a software program manager and playwright -- whom many people in the Seattle tech community know as the artist-in-residence Ignite Seattle -- spoke with us this week about the play, "When I Come To My Senses, I'm Alive!" which runs April 23-May 22 at the Annex Theatre.
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A couple weeks ago we told you about the hit country song "Love Like Crazy," which features a great reference to Microsoft: They called him crazy when he quit his job / Said them home computers, boy, they'll never take off / Well, he sold his one-man shop to Microsoft / And they paid like crazy.
As it turns out, there's more to the story. We spoke via phone this week with country star Lee Brice, who confirmed that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was in the crowd when he sang "Love Like Crazy" at an event in Nashville earlier this year. So how did Ballmer react?
Continue reading for the answer and other highlights from our interview with Brice. Although Brice is a songwriter, this one was written by his producer, Doug Johnson. We started by asking Brice how Microsoft came to be referenced in the lyrics of a heartfelt country love song.
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Sure, this is Microsoft country, but given the deep passion for all sorts of technology in the Seattle area -- not to mention the number of Microsoft employees who were waiting in line for an original iPhone in Redmond a few years ago -- I'm a little surprised that our region didn't rank a little higher on this newly released "Apple Market Ranker."
Coming in at No. 14, we're ranked behind the likes of Las Vegas, Nev., and Hartford, Conn. Really? That's slightly embarrassing, if accurate.
The Seattle area is starting to lay the groundwork for a new crop of electric and plug-in hybrid cars expected to hit the market later this year.
The King County Council this week approved a measure to build a network of up to 200 public charging stations at county park-and-ride, vanpool and van-share sites. At the same time, an electric vehicle program called the EV Project, supported by a $100 million Department of Energy stimulus grant, is moving ahead with plans to install 2,000 charging outlets in homes, parking lots and public libraries in the Puget Sound region starting this fall.
The surge of planning reflects the growing excitement over electric vehicles, which produce few or no emissions linked to global warming. Most of the major automakers plan to roll out new mass-market electric or plug-in hybrid cars over the next several years.
The University of Washington's Master of Communications in Digital Media program, organizing TEDx Seattle today, is taking the opportunity to share its vision for the region's potential to shape technology, communications and socially aware business models. As part of that, the UW program this morning debuted its inaugural "Digital Disrupter" award, an annual honor that will recognize those principles.
And the winner is ... Seattle-based Tableau Software, in recognition of its free Tableau Public data visualization technology.
Editor's Note: We regularly look across the industry for experts to offer viewpoints and tips in our popular "From the Trenches" series of guest posts. For this one, we looked across the office. We asked Angelynn Talcott, director of marketing for the PSBJ and TechFlash, to share her biggest takeaways from the Social Media 201 conference Thursday in Redmond.
Who knew Benjamin Franklin was the first social media guru? Why? He used all the technology available at the time to express, publish and distribute his ideas and thoughts. He became a brand of his own.
That was one of the insights offered up at Social Media 201 Conference, held at Microsoft on Thursday. Hopefully we've all followed Ben's lead and embraced the idea that there's value in social media. It's another way to engage and communicate. But how can we use it to build our businesses? The event featured some insightful speakers who focused on that important question.
At a concert last summer in New York City, Marcus Wandell had an entrepreneurial epiphany. The University of Washington grad -- who was working in Microsoft's New York office at the time -- wondered why he couldn't track the beer vendors from his mobile phone in order to find the best prices and selection.
"I thought to myself: Why don't I have an app on my iPhone that shows me all of the beer vendor offerings around me, so I could find the best price?" said Wandell, who started building out the concept shortly thereafter.
He quit his digital advertising gig at Microsoft a few weeks later, moved back to the Seattle area and formed Anttenna. Now, the 26-year-old entrepreneur is hoping to transform the way people buy, sell and trade items from their mobile phones at sporting events, concerts, neighborhood gatherings or other location specific events.
The Anttenna service -- available now as a free iPhone app in Seattle, San Diego, Las Vegas and Austin -- is kind of like Twitter, Foursquare and Craigslist all rolled into one. The end goal is to create a new form of classified advertising, something that Wandell calls "mobile microlistings" that are targeted to a user's location.
Venture capitalists invested $168 million in 22 deals in Washington state during the first quarter, a slight increase in dollars invested but a decline by one deal when compared to the same period last year. And while the $168 million figure was off substantially from first quarter investing levels in 2005, 2006 and 2007, it was still enough to rank Washington fifth in terms of dollars invested.
MOD Systems co-founder and former CEO Mark Phillips, in federal detention since his March 30 arrest on allegations of wire fraud, was granted pretrial release on Thursday with a number of conditions -- including GPS monitoring, oversight by a custodian, and orders not to contact others embroiled in a series of disputes with him.
In a filing in advance of the Thursday hearing in U.S. District Court in Seattle (PDF, 12 pages), lawyers for Phillips contended that he wasn't a flight risk, saying the release would let him focus on addressing the related civil litigation between himself and others with connections to the Seattle-based digital-media kiosk developer.
Redmond-based location-sharing startup Glympse has updated its apps for iPhone and Android to give users the option of automatically showing a dynamic, live map of their location to their Facebook friends. The new feature expands the service beyond its existing distribution channels of email, Twitter and text messages.
It also puts Glympse out in front of Facebook's own plans. The popular social networking service has signaled its intent to integrate location-sharing as a native feature of the site, but it hasn't been rolled out yet.
CNet News.com has an interesting interview with Marc Maiffret, the former teenage hacker who went on to become the co-founder eEye Digital Security, making him one of foremost authorities in finding holes in Microsoft's programs. Among other things, Maiffret has some surprising comments about present-day Microsoft, describing the Redmond company as now ahead of Apple in its approach to computer security.
Of course, that would represent a huge turnaround over the past decade. Microsoft has historically been held up as a model for security holes. Maiffret says the company clearly isn't perfect, but it's doing far better than it did, and he traces the change to the release of Bill Gates' landmark Trustworthy Computing memo in 2002.
Amazon.com has been battling publishers who want to set higher prices on electronic books. Now the online retailer says there are sales tax implications for publishers that go this route. In a message quietly posted to the Kindle Community page last week, Amazon said that Kindle books where the publisher sets the price "are subject to sales tax based on the publisher's state tax reporting obligations and the taxability of digital books in those states."
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