Seattle Technology News

Chevrolet at #SXSW to unveil industry leading technologies

Posted by Karim Kanji on Fri, March 12, 2010 2:40 PM · Filed under Denver-Boulder, Portland, Seattle, Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, South-Florida, Atlantic-Canada , Events, Social Media · 1 Comment
What is Chevrolet doing at South by Southwest (#sxsw)?  They're not showing off their new 2020 concept cars.  The music, film and interactive conference in Austin, Texas will be introduced to three emerging technologies that Chevrolet is looking to promote and test:  location-based social networking, quick response codes, and augmented... [more]

Travel Bursaries available for the Northern Voice Blogging Conference

Posted by Rob Lewis on Fri, March 12, 2010 12:16 PM · Filed under Seattle, Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, Atlantic-Canada , Events, Social Media · No Comments
Northern Voice Blogging Conference in Vancouver on May 7th and 8th is offering six travel bursaries of $500 each and the organizing committee will be awarding these bursaries based on a number of criteria, including: The contributions you can make to the conference Your level of need The quality of... [more]

TechFlash hosts How to Make Money Online in 2010 and Beyond

Posted by Rob Lewis on Wed, March 10, 2010 9:32 PM · Filed under Seattle , Events · No Comments
On March 23rd, TechFlash is hosting a special TechFlash Live quarterly event titled How to Make Money Online in 2010 and Beyond. As the economy recovers, companies are searching harder than ever for new ways to create viable business models in the Internet economy. Many technology startups are faced with a... [more]

High speed Internet expansion hampered by old industrial models

Posted by Robert Janelle on Fri, March 5, 2010 10:01 AM · Filed under Denver-Boulder, Portland, Seattle, Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, South-Florida, Atlantic-Canada , Wireless, Events, Telecom, Research, Government, Mobile · No Comments
Old 20th century industrial models are holding back the expansion of high speed Internet access across North America, according to a Harvard law professor. Delivering the keynote address at the University of Ottawa launch conference for Centre for Law, Technology and Society, Yochai Benkler detailed the challenges related to expanding next... [more]

140 - The Twitter Conference one week away

Posted by Rob Lewis on Sat, February 27, 2010 9:57 AM · Filed under Seattle, Vancouver , Events, Twitter · No Comments
140 | The Twitter Conference is coming to Seattle on March 8th at the Bell Harbour Conference Center and Techvibes is proud to be a media sponsor. The schedule for the one-track conference is finalized and includes the following sessions and speakers. Business Twitter Basics: Growing Your Followers and Beyond with... [more]

Y Combinator Meetup in Seattle tonight

Posted by Rob Lewis on Thu, February 25, 2010 8:31 AM · Filed under Seattle , Events, Start-up · No Comments
Co-working space StartPad is hosting a Y Combinator Meetup this evening, Thursday February 25th, in Seattle at 6:30pm. Come by the RescueTime offices at StartPad.org from 6.30pm to talk with Harj Taggar from Y Combinator and several Seattle based YC alumni. Harj was a founder of Auctomatic, acquired by Live Current... [more]

Mitch Joel - branding and podcasts

Posted by Karim Kanji on Thu, February 25, 2010 7:18 AM · Filed under Denver-Boulder, Portland, Seattle, Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, South-Florida, Atlantic-Canada , Events, Social Media · 2 Comments
Mitch Joel, best-selling authour of the book Six Pixels of Separation, and digital branding and marketing expert, recently spoke at a Third Tuesday Toronto event.  During the Q&A Mitch answered a question about his popular Media Hacks podcast and it's effect on his business and personal brand. What are your thoughts... [more]

TEDxYYC livestreaming through Bnettv.com on Friday, Feb 26th

Posted by Sarah Blue on Wed, February 24, 2010 8:27 AM · Filed under Denver-Boulder, Portland, Seattle, Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, South-Florida, Atlantic-Canada , Events · No Comments
As the list of TEDx events grows, TEDxYYC will be live streaming theirs this Friday, from the Karo Design building in Calgary. The list of speakers include the 18-year-old Eden Full, a social entrepreneur and environmentalist; Ben Cameron, the program director of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation for the Arts; Jennifer... [more]

Tomorrow brings a new type of Awards Show

Posted by Eric Floresca on Tue, February 23, 2010 7:36 PM · Filed under Denver-Boulder, Portland, Seattle, Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, South-Florida, Atlantic-Canada , Awards, Events, Social Media, Digital Media · No Comments
What does tomorrow bring? The Tomorrow Awards is a new initiative for the international advertising community looking to discover what the future holds as technology and society races ahead. Most award shows have defined categories that separate entries, this award show will take a shot at the bow and remove categories... [more]

140 The Twitter Conference in Seattle fast approaching

Posted by Rob Lewis on Mon, February 15, 2010 11:10 AM · Filed under Seattle, Vancouver , Events, Twitter · No Comments
140 | The Twitter Conference is coming to Seattle on March 8th at the Bell Harbour Conference Center and Techvibes is proud to be a media sponsor. The schedule for the one-track conference is pretty much finalized and includes sessions on Mining Twitter, Scaling and Securing Your Brand on Twitter, and... [more]