Quoted: Hoping to blend education and technology, DreamBox Learning has released its first product: a math game for kindergartners through second graders. The Bellevue, Wash.-based company is entering a tough market at a time when most families have cut spending. But chief executive Lou Gray says that parents are still willing to make sacrifices for the sake ...

Quoted: Radar is a small but rapidly growing photo sharing site with a strong focus on mobile sharing. Radar has already developed applications for the Blackberry and T-Mobile Sidekick, as well as numerous other phones. Today, Radar also released its iPhone application (iTunes link), which is one of the better photo sharing and social networking apps we have ...

Quoted: Cozi, the family calendar and scheduling service, is the latest Seattle area startup to cut staff amid the deepening economic recession. On Monday, the company laid off five of its 41 employees. Co-founder Robbie Cape said the company has been rapidly adding new registrations (125,000 family members alone this month).

Kristen's old VP at MS, Juha Christensen, has a startup - CloudMade.

Quoted: CloudMade help you make the most of map data. We source our maps from OpenStreetMap, the community mapping project which is making a free map of the world. Our aims are to continue the democratization of geo data and to expand access to open geo data through a range of simple yet powerful tools and APIs.

Quoted: Losing your job at Microsoft? An entrepreneurial group in downtown Seattle wants to help out. In response to the layoff announcement today, high-tech incubator StartPad.org said it would offer 30 free days of office space, free Internet access and other perks to any former Microsoft employee who is interested in dipping his or her toes in the startup ...

Quoted: The MySpace Developer Platform team would like to invite you to the Offerpal Media MySpace DevJam event on February 5, 2009 at our offices in San Francisco. Feb 5th also happens to be the one year anniversary of the MySpace Developer Platform!! This DevJam will focus on monetizing MySpace applications through the use of virtual currency.

Quoted: Two year old life-story repository Dandelife seemed to have everything going for it. It launched to praise from some of the biggest tech blogs on the web, it built a wildly loyal user base and its company advisory board was stocked with some of the biggest names in social media. Apparently that hasn't been enough, though. Last night Dandelife founder

Quoted: We at blist are really excited that the Barack Obama transition team is using blist to help power the Change.gov site. They are using blist in a simple but useful way. The Obama-Biden team has decided each month to voluntarily publish the names of all donors to their transition project.

Quoted: Feed Chronicle is a new site that lets you transform those RSS feeds into your very own online newspaper. It’s simple to use and setup. Just create an account, select the feeds (from drop-down menus) you want for each newspaper-like section, and the final result is your very own online newspaper.