Real estate has a weird side, and we at Redfin think it’s about time the public had a glimpse into it. We’re proud to introduce Real Estate Confidential (@REConfidential), a new Twitter feed that lets the public in on the strange and sometimes inexplicable things our agents encounter when they’re giving home tours. Of course,… Read More
Michael Arrington published another hum-dinger of an essay this morning, this one on the future of blogging and journalism in a world of rampant theft: one writer takes another writer’s story, hardly bothering to rewrite it, and posts it somewhere else, with the Internet portal and search engines richly rewarding the copycat rather than the… Read More
It’s not too late to head down to the Naked Truth at Olympic Sculpture Park here in Seattle! With the sun out we tore up the RSVP list and are opening the doors to everyone (bring a blanket!). We’ll be here until they boot us out at 10 but I’m sure there will be more… Read More
The Naked Truth video is up, on Mixpo instead of YouTube, so we could stream the entire 56:53. This is your chance to hear five great journalists and bloggers talking about how entrepreneurs talk to them. Greg Gottesman from Madrona moderated. In case you don’t have an hour to watch the whole thing, we’ve summarized… Read More
The Naked Truth party wasn’t the three-ring circus I had hoped it would be. No one arrived by camel. The police didn’t shut the party down. There were big bouncers working security, but no velvet rope. And yet everybody — hundreds of people — seemed to have a blast. Our goal in hosting the event… Read More
A year ago, the Diddy spirit pervaded Seattle, resulting in a NerdPartySupernova led by an Ephod-clad Michael Arrington as the Grand Poobah. Beer-hauling trucks conked out, young men fell fatally in love, entrepreneurs with Hare-Krishna looks in their eyes rampaged through the ranks of venture capitalists. This year, we’re doing something bigger. First of all,… Read More
TechCrunch Seattle is in the books, and we still haven’t recovered. For a moment there, we thought we were going to screw it up. When we got to ConWorks at five, TripHub and Farecast had their brochures stacked in neat piles and their demo looping on big monitors. It was a tragic reminder of a… Read More
Seattle TechCrunch is turning into a deranged mob scene, with over 250 people signed up after only a day. When was the last time a party like this came together? You’d have to go back to P. Diddy’s 2004 birthday, as covered by no less than three reporters from The Gray Lady, back when Harold… Read More
A few weeks ago, we heard that TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington was coming to town, and decided to throw a party for all the Web 2.0 companies in Seattle to meet one another and talk about what they’re doing. The PI’s John Cook and NPR’s John Moe immediately signed up for the project, a few mystery… Read More