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Seattle

Ignite Seattle 6 Speakers

April 22, 2009

We’ve got a bunch of great speakers this time! Check ‘em out below. Ignite Seattle 6 will take place on 4/29 at the King Cat Theatre. Doors will open at 7PM and talk will start at 8:30PM. We are very grateful to be getting sponsorship from Google, Biznik, and Phinney Bischoff Design House. Roy Leban [...]

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Ignite Seattle Returns!

April 2, 2009

After over a year on hiatus, Ignite Seattle is back, at a new venue (thanks to the King Cat Theater) on April 29th. Same as before, we’ll have 16 speakers – talks will be limited to 5 minutes a piece each 20 slides, so that’s 15 seconds a slide. It always goes faster than you [...]

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Thingamajiggr II: Friday Night in Seattle

June 12, 2008

Just a reminder that we are throwing another Thingamajiggr party to celebrate the innovative tech community in the Pacific Northwest. It will combine great speakers, innovative technology, geek inspired art, VJs, DJs, bar, and creative technologists. The second Thingamajiggr is happening in Seattle the evening of June 13th, 7:30pm – 1am. It will be held [...]

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Ignite Seattle 5: The Schedule

February 17, 2008

We have 16 great talks for Ignite this Tuesday. They range from how to do better at your job to the game of Go to the elections. It’s going to be a great night. The talks start at 8, but doors open at 7. So come to the CHAC and have a beer with us [...]

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Ignite Seattle Talks

February 11, 2008

Next Tuesday night at the CHAC we are going to have the next Ignite! Starting at 8PM we are going to hear from 16 speakers. There is one more day to submit talks. Here are the talks so far: Noah Iliinsky – Generation of Complex Diagrams: How to Make Lasagna Instead of SpaghettiA system for [...]

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Ignite Seattle on 2/19! Submit your talk!

January 28, 2008

It’s been a really long time coming and I am thrilled to be able to announce the next Ignite Seattle is February 19th at the CHAC. W00t, it’s great to be back! At the last one we had over 350 people watch 15 great talks (all of which can be found online). Watch the videos [...]

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Come to Thingamajiggr!

October 10, 2007

You are cordially invited to Thingamajiggr, a unique event co-hosted by O’Reilly Radar and Waggle Labs celebrating Seattle’s tech scene with great people, innovative technology, and grooving DJs. More info below: Evening schedule: · 7:30, doors open · 8:00-9:30ish, Opening presentations John Kao, renown author and innovation expert, will kick off the evening with a [...]

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Ignite 4 Videos Posted

September 20, 2007

You can see all 15 of the Ignite 4 videos on YouTube. One of them, Rob Gruhl’s How To Buy a Car video, was recently featured on Lifehacker. (Thanks, Gina)

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Jordan’s Bees Get Harvested

September 20, 2007

Jordan, who gave the excellent talk on bees at the third Ignite has documented the honey harvesting process (I & II). It’s a fascinating read.

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Free 360 Flex Pass from Picnik

August 11, 2007

360 Flex is a Seattle developer conference. As they describe themselves: 360|Flex was the first all Flex/Apollo themed conference. Our inaugural conference in San Jose was a sell-out success. No doubt due to Adobe’s Flex Evangelist, Ted Patrick, helping to rally the community. This conference takes you into the nitty-gritty of Flex development. If you’re [...]

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Watch Ignite at Gnomedex

August 11, 2007

We selected some talks to be done again at Gnomedex this morning. The video is streaming at http://chris.pirillo.com/live/ We go on at 11:30. We’ll see the following speakers again: Make Art Not Content Scotto Moore Startup Metrics for Pirates: AARRR! Dave McClure Stop Yelling, Start Weaving Deborah Schultz Is 2008 the year the “Third Screen” [...]

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Thanks and Some Links

August 9, 2007

I’d like to thank all the attendees, volunteers, the CHAC, the people who promoted the event, and the speakers. It was an amazing event and it couldn’t have happened without you all. As promised here are some of the links mentioned in presentations last night: Noonhat – Changing the world through lunch VC Term Sheets [...]

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Follow Ignite

August 9, 2007

If you want to be alerted about Ignite there are a couple of different ways. 1) Join the announcement list. Bre and I are the only people who post to it. It’s generally just alerts about upcoming events. 2) Follow us on Twitter. We are ignitesea. You can text “follow ignitesea” to 40404. Alternately, just [...]

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Schedule For Ignite Tonight

August 8, 2007

We had some last minute changes to our schedule. Here is the final line-up! Starting at 8:30: Make Art Not Content Scotto Moore Small medicine: Nanotechnology and biology Deepak Singh building real community scott kennedy No, not skin: Epidemiology for the layman Maegan Ashworth How to buy a new car Rob Gruhl Werewolf Strategy HB [...]

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There Has Never Been Stranger Love Than This Before

August 8, 2007

Igntie got noticed by the Stranger. Woot! Maybe Dan Savage will give an Ignite talk next time. Their sight unseen description of the event is one of the best yet… And while geeks also tend to be socially awkward, we still want them to kick some ass designing our software and answering difficult questions—but stop [...]

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Help McLeods!

August 8, 2007

Buster McLeod just sent out this email to all members of McLeods. To sum: The awesome tech art gallery needs help. Details below: This is a difficult email to write, but we owe it to our members to be transparent about our situation. Simply put, McLeod Residence is in big trouble, as in financial trouble. [...]

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