Quoted: Adobe is kicking off the Adobe on AIR Bus Tour in Seattle tomorrow. Take the day off, call in sick, do whatever it takes to be there! Its free (as in beer, which will be provided). The event is from 9:15am until 9:30pm at Elysian Brewing Company. Bring your laptop with code to find out how easy it is to put one of your web apps on AIR. (Registration

Quoted: MobIncentive, a site that allows "people to set up an incentive for getting something done and let everyone else in the world 'pile on' to the idea", went live yesterday. How does it work? People submit things they'd like to see happen. Take, for example, a party for Seattle tech startups later this summer. If enough people agree to contribute, it will

Quoted: Still working out your lunch plans for the week? Take a look at Noonhat. The new Seattle-based site is for "everyone who wants to have interesting lunchtime conversations with new people". The idea is simple. Select a day you're available for lunch and how far you're willing to travel. Noonhat will send you an email on the morning you selected matching

Quoted: Several events coming up... nPost's Seattle Entrepreneur Networking Event this Tuesday has an impressive list of startups registered to attend. Looking forward to catching up with several folks there, and meeting several others. Then there's Seattle Mind Camp 4.0 on July 1st. The Adobe on AIR bus tour kicks off in Seattle on July 10th. Learn all about

Quoted: Whew, it's been a few months since I last posted. And I have a lot of catching up to do... both on the blog and several other projects. My wife and I recently returned from a rather unexpected and extended trip, and I'm two months behind on just about everything. That said, I'm back at it again and-among several other things-have some exciting changes

Quoted: Amazon Web Services and Madrona Venture Group are hosting The Startup Project at PravdaStudios Loft in Seattle on Thursday, April 26th. This should be an interesting look at how startups are leveraging Amazon's infrastructure. Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3) are a powerful combination, especially with the ability

Quoted: The next Seattle Tech Startups meeting is scheduled for next Wednesday, March 28th at 6pm. The meetings are held at the Seattle Public Library Capital Hill Branch. Rather than the usual presentation format, 4 or 5 people will talk about their company or idea and get feedback from the group. Don't miss it!

Quoted: Tony said it right... It's been awful quiet here lately. I've been heads down on a couple projects for the past several weeks, including some pretty exciting (and hopefully useful) changes ahead for Entering Startup. More on that in the next few weeks.

Quoted: Bre Pettis and Brady Forrest put on another great show at Ignite Seattle Tuesday night. Yet again, Brady lined up an impressive list of presenters for the Ask Later talks. Great to see Ryan Stewart on stage covering the rich internet application space. He's an incredible blogger and great guy to hang out with. My bet is on the RIA space being big this