Category Archives: Seattle

SportUltra.com: Great Idea, Missing Key Features

A local Seattle company launched today. I was excited to hear about it. SportsUltra.com promises to deliver sports news to you that you care about. I have been waiting for a site like this for a while now, especially since I moved to the Seattle area. It’s a lot more difficult to follow the Utah [...]

Seattle Flex Users Group

Yesterday evening I went to the Seattle Flex Users Group Meeting. I have been wanting to know and learn more about Flex. The meeting was combined with the Seattle Flash Group. There were a lot of people in attendance.
Greg Rewis, an Adobe evangelist, spoke to us about the new features in CS3. Everybody was oohing [...]

I’m Going to Gnomedex 7.0

I subscribe to a number of blogs and mailing lists of companies/startups/people/reporters that are based in the Seattle area to keep up with things that are happening. The past day or two I have seen a lot of buzz regarding Gnomedex 7.0 which is in Seattle August 9-11. After giving it a little thought, I [...]

Millions of Profiles, Thousands of Resumes

As I go about the Internet looking at company web sites, learning more about them, searching for a job, I have noticed something. It was something that I was aware of before. It has just become way more obvious doing what I have been doing lately. I’m sure many of you have experienced the [...]

My Jobster Profile

During my job search, more than a few people have asked if I have checked out Jobster. Since everybody was mentioning them, I have checked it out in the past.
Today, I finally created my profile on the Jobster web site. There are a few things that set it apart from other job-seeking sites. You can [...]

Lots of Seattle Startups

Looking into the Seattle startup scene, I’m finding there is a lot going on. Drew Meyer from Zillow.com left me a comment to my last post to point me to a recent post of his on the Seattle tech scene. He includes lots of good links that lead me to a lot of blogs. Thanks [...]

Seattle Startups

In my job search, I have found that startups respond a lot quicker to resume submissions than bigger companies. I thought I would start searching the Seattle startup scene to see what companies are out there.
I am a little familiar with a few Seattle startups, such as Redfin and Zillow, but I know there are [...]

Seattle Loves Coffee

Yesterday I was doing a favor for somebody and went to get a Diet Pepsi for her. She had one requirement-it had to be a fountain drink. I thought no problem. I thought wrong.
Usually, this means going to the corner gas station. Real simple. But apparently not here in Seattle. First, I went to a [...]

Facts About Seattle

Although I have been to Seattle lots of times to visit family, and since we are moving there, I thought I would take a few minutes to find out some more about Seattle. For example, every time we are there, I think I ask my wife the population of the area. She has no idea.
I’m [...]