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World Wide Wade

What Web Journalists Can Learn from Comics

Wade Roush 9/5/08

While the tech-blog world is exhausting itself testing and writing about Google Chrome, the new open-source Web browser released by the search giant on Tuesday, I’m still just having fun paging back and forth through the 38-page Scott McCloud Web comic that Google commissioned to explain the whole project. A lot of Silicon Valley companies, when they’re launching big new products, will rent a hotel ballroom, erect a glitzy set,... Read more »

Mobile Technology, wireless, Venture Capital

SeaPoint Ventures

The Wild World of Wireless According to Tom Huseby, a Well-Connected Seattle VC

Gregory T. Huang 9/5/08

Tom Huseby has a fairly normal-looking BlackBerry phone. No fancy software on it, he says—not even from Ontela, SnapIn, or Zumobi, local mobile-tech companies for which he serves as chairman of the board.... Read more »

Software, deals, acquisitions

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Captaris Acquired by Open Text for $131M—but How Good a Deal Is It?

Gregory T. Huang 9/4/08

Another big acquisition has come to town. Bellevue, WA-based software firm Captaris said today it is being acquired by Open Text, a business-software company based in Waterloo, Ontario. The deal is worth about $131 million, and... Read more »

Venture Capital, deals, innovation

Golden Gate Bridge

Calling Bay Area Investors: Seattle Entrepreneurs Want To See More of You, and Help Build Your Brand

Gregory T. Huang 9/4/08

Lately I’ve been hearing from the tech-startup community about the need to get venture capitalists from the San Francisco Bay Area to spend more time in Seattle—and with the companies they invest in here. The topic... Read more »

Biotech, Macular Degeneration, Acucela

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Acucela Strikes Deal With Otsuka Pharmaceutical to Develop Drug for Eye Disease

Luke Timmerman 9/4/08

Acucela has struck another big deal with its Japanese connections. The Bothell, WA-based biotech company said today it has agreed to form a partnership with Tokyo-based Otsuka Pharmaceutical to develop its lead drug candidate for the... Read more »

Invention, people, Science Fiction

A Who’s Who of Geeking Out at Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures

Gregory T. Huang 9/3/08

Biotech, Autoimmune, ZymoGenetics

ZymoGenetics Hands Over Atacicept Rights to Partner, Merck KGaA

Luke Timmerman 9/3/08

Analysis, social networks, books

In Amazon’s Purchase of Shelfari, a Possible Front in the Battle with Borders—and a Triumph for Social Book Sites

Gregory T. Huang 9/3/08
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Xconomist Forum - Insight & Opinion ABOUT »

energy, investing, cleantech

The Answer, My Friend, Is Certainly Not Blowing in the Wind—or the Corn

Mark Modzelewski 9/4/08

This is the last of my articles taking cleantech investing to task sector by sector (keep the hate mail coming, hippies!). The next few will focus on some areas I really... Read more »

video, Web, Media

The 2008 Olympics: The Defining Moment for Video 2.0, or Opportunity Lost?

Matt Kaplan 8/26/08

[Editor's note: This Xconomist Forum post is a revised, updated version of an essay contributor Matt Kaplan wrote for the PermissionTV blog on August 9, 2008.]

Every four years... Read more »

cloud computing, Web Services, amazon

Amazon’s Elastic Block Store—A Glimpse of Cloud Computing’s Future

Philip Jacob 8/22/08

Earlier this week, Amazon announced an important new feature in its cloud computing Web service offerings that should further cause those of us who work in technology to consider the way... Read more »

Biomaterials, medical devices, Partnerships

University of Washington Engineered Biomaterials (UWEB) Transitions Into the 21st Century

Buddy Ratner 8/21/08

VC, investing, Entrepreneurship

Three Ways (Times Three) for Entrepreneurs to Blow It

James Geshwiler 8/11/08
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seattle-Area Local Events

September 09

WTIA’s State-of-the-State on Venture Capital in Washington

World Trade Center, 4th floor, Suite 410. 2200 Alaskan Way, Seattle - 7:30 am-9 am
September 10—September 12

BIO’s Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology

Vancouver, BC
September 10

WTIA’s Sunset Over Summer Networking Event

Terrace Garden, Red Lion Hotel. 1415 Fifth Avenue, Seattle - 5 pm-8 pm
September 12

Science & Technology Discovery Series, Hosted by the Technology Alliance

Rainier Club, Seattle - 7:30 am-9 am
September 15—September 19

Association of Space Explorers Congress

Museum of Flight, 9404 E. Marginal Way S., Seattle, Exit 158 off Interstate 5
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