Startup Spotlight: Gazeable’s iPad apps help travel nuts explore the world in photos Ram Singh loves to travel. And it’s that love that sparked the 42-year-old former Microsoft engineering manager’s latest pursuit: Gazeable.… Read More
Mobile photo sharing service Trover discovers the desktop Most companies start with a Web-based version of their service, transitioning to mobile almost as an after thought. Trover is… Read More
Photos: The Gorge, as viewed from a radio-controlled plane Like many of us, Seattle-area high school student Zach Sweetser took lots of photos over the Labor Day holiday. But… Read More
Cosplay, crafts and more great scenes from GeekGirlCon [Editor’s Note: GeekWire’s Emily Shahan was among thousands of people who attended the first day of GeekGirlCon yesterday at the… Read More
Digital photo organizer ThisLife lands $2.75M from Madrona There’s no shortage of places to store your digital photos, from Facebook to Flickr to Instagram to Google’s Picassa to… Read More
Facebook buys facial recognition startup Face.com In a deal that was widely anticipated, Facebook announced today that it has acquired facial recognition upstart Face.com. TechCrunch reports… Read More
Voicepic: Add 5-second audio captions to your favorite photos A picture may often be worth a thousand words. But for those instances when images alone can’t tell the story,… Read More
The battle to train a market: Instagram is what Facebook has been telling you guys to do for like a year, okay? By now, it’s probably been brought to your attention that Facebook bought Instagram for a billion dollars on Monday, valuing… Read More
Meet the superheroes of Maveron: One hilarious holiday card We get a lot of holiday greetings here at GeekWire. Some are pretty traditional, with snowmen or santas or wreaths.… Read More
iLike vets launch Familiar, turning your computer screen into a digital picture frame Marcus Womack, Josh Hepfer, Mike Bohlander and Ray Fortna were core members of the team at iLike, the Seattle online… Read More
On the scene at GeekGirlCon Editor’s Note: Hundreds of people attended Day 1 of the inaugural GeekGirlCon at Seattle Center yesterday — sitting in on… Read More
Cheezburger opens a new chapter: Beautiful photos Cheezburger, the oddball Seattle based network of humor sites, is best known for its captions on funny cat photos and videos… Read More
UW computer science project automates time-lapse pictures Inspired in part by people who take pictures of themselves every day, showing how they change over a period of… Read More
Photo sharing site PhotoRocket chops staff, names Cockrill CEO PhotoRocket, the photo sharing service that launched to much fanfare at the DEMO conference earlier this year, has cut about… Read More
Inside Seattle’s geek craft fair The Happy Go Techy Expo, held Saturday at the University of Washington, was a little bit geek craft fair, and… Read More
Photo of the Day: Internet Explorer Gets New Windows Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team has been making a point lately of trying to stick to a steady schedule for updates.… Read More
