Topic: Seattle

The Only Thing That Matters

At night in a Seattle bar, the world is alive with possibilities.READ»

Encouraging Readers to Generate Content

For about six months, I've been happily participating in the Beauty Cred blog on Seattle-based RealSelf.com, a site on which readers and professionals talk about beauty treatments and cosmetics. While we have great traffic to ...READ»

Still in the Fast Lane

The AAA estimates that almost 37 million people will travel this Memorial Day weekend in the U.S. Because almost 31 million people will travel by car, roads and highways across the country are sure to be crowded. For special occasions such as this holiday, it's relatively easy to plan how long it might take to get where you're going by car. But when traveling on business, it's not always as clear.READ»

Work/Life: Are Private Terminals and Small Planes the Future of Air Travel?

With the network air carriers pulling service to mid-tier-city airports around the U.S., air service from private terminals is filling the vacuum in places like Seattle and Portland, Oregon. USA Today reports that SeaPort ...READ»

Infectious Disease Cruise Conference

One tip to avoid the spread of infectious diseases: Don't gather in confined spaces. Like, you know, a ship at sea. (We haven't forgotten all those news stories about the stomach-churning, disinfectant-resisting norovirus.) This ...READ»

The Silent, Fan-Free Future of Laptop Cooling?

As laptops get smaller and faster, the problem of keeping them cool grows more difficult. But researchers are racing to the next generation in cooling technology, called electro-hydrodynamic cooling. The idea is to first use an ...READ»

Working Virtually

When I moved back to my hometown, my company decided to start a branch office to help serve our West Coast clients. Now I'm just about at the end of my first year working remotely in Seattle for Learning Worlds in New York. Many ...READ»

My Favorite Bookmarks - Kathleen Flinn

Picks from a Seattle Sidewalk producer.READ»

What Should Replace Your Defunct Local Paper?

Tuscon, Denver and Seattle have all recently lost their printed newspapers. One, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, has moved to an all-online model, cutting its staff of 136 to down to just 20. It joins growing Web-papers like The ...READ»

Would You Make Your Backyard an Office?

As aversion to driving grows, home office sheds come into fashion.READ»

Fast Cities 2009: Seattle Is the City of the Year

Seattle, the city that sprawls across seven hills, is Fast Company's city of the year for 2009. A visit to the city last month reminded me of all the reasons it was chosen. The car rental agency at the airport handed me the smart ...READ»

Seattle: City of the Year

The capital of the Pacific Northwest is blessed with divine geography, frontier spirit, and an abundance of both artists and geeks. Plus, it's not even that rainy.READ»

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Hustle & Flow

Alaska Airlines' Airport of the Future makes quick work of getting passengers through check-in.READ»

Putting a Price on Customer Opinions

Good morning everyone. And David, thanks for the introduction. It's 6:45 am here in Seattle - and even though it's early and the sun is not yet up - I have to say I feel a warm glow all over having read the following article from ...READ»

Face Time With Jeff Bezos

The gregarious founder of the pathbreaking e-commerce company holds forth on cracking eggs, Mike Meyers, and other nonvirtual wonders of the world.READ»

Seattle Reboots Its Future

The leaders of the city that Bill Boeing and Bill Gates built are asking what it will take to thrive in the 21st century.READ»

Fast Future

A letter from the founding editors.READ»

Dot Community

Communicopia Internet Inc. helps non-profits make the Web work for social change.READ»

Seattle's Real Aftershocks

Boeing's departure is forcing Seattle to step back and examine its long-term strategies for urban planning and development. Now political tremors are beginning to rock the already shaken-up Emerald City.READ»

Venture Philanthropy Resources

Courtesy of Social Venture PartnersREAD»

Change Management: Globalization is Good

The debate on globalization has been raging since the turn of the century. Economists, politicians, businessmen and social commentators from across the world have judged the merits and demerits of this inevitable 21st century ...READ»

Congestion Defection

Working with the Washington State Department of Transportation, a Seattle company called TrafficGauge has developed an innovative device to help commuters work their way around traffic in the Seattle-Bellevue area. The ...READ»

FC Book Club - Creating Community

It looks like we have our first "hit" with the Fast Company Book Club. A major online bookseller based in Seattle (named after a river in South America -- you do the math) sent out an e-mail inviting employees to participate in a ...READ»

Seattle Walks the Talk

So what is XBS-Seattle doing to turn learning talk into profitable walk?READ»

Neighbour Power

The anarchist bookshop next to the pier in Seattle never fails to yield gem-like titles - although nowadays, even the most grassrootsy titles are often to be found on Amazon, too. I'm enjoying a book by Jim Diers called Neighbor ...READ»