seattle

BarCamp Seattle is this Weekend! (June 13th & 14th)

leelefever — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:37:00 +0000

If you live in or near Seattle, try to make it BarCamp Seattle this weekend. Common Craft is a sponsor - I'll see you there.

What's BarCamp? I suppose you want an explanation in Plain English? I'll try, but here's the Wikipedia page.

People have gotten tired of the normal conference format. Speakers on a stage, everyone else quiet. Everyone knows the best stuff happens over lunch or in the hallways. BarCamp is an event that happens in cities around the world that offers a different, more open and free flowing take on conferences - known as an unconference. People (often geeks, entrepreneurs, artists, etc.) come together for 2 days. During that time, participants volunteer to contribute in some way. Often these are workshops, talks, demos, discussions, etc. BarCamp is all about having fun and doing what feels right.

Here are the details:

Sat Jun 13, 10am-5pm.
Sun Jun 14 10am-1pm.

Adobe Conference Center
801 North 34th Street
Seattle, WA 98103

Follow @barcampseattle on Twitter and use #bcs09 in your tweets.

BarCamp Seattle is this Weekend! (June 13th & 14th)

leelefever — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:37:00 +0000

If you live in or near Seattle, try to make it BarCamp Seattle this weekend. Common Craft is a sponsor - I'll see you there.

What's BarCamp? I suppose you want an explanation in Plain English? I'll try, but here's the Wikipedia page.

Here are the details:

Sat Jun 13, 10am-5pm.
Sun Jun 14 10am-1pm.

Adobe Conference Center
801 North 34th Street
Seattle, WA 98103

Follow @barcampseattle on Twitter and use #bcs09 in your tweets.

BarCamp Seattle is this Weekend! (June 13th & 14th)

leelefever — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:37:00 +0000

If you live in or near Seattle, try to make it BarCamp Seattle this weekend. Common Craft is a sponsor - I'll see you there.

What's BarCamp? I suppose you want an explanation in Plain English? I'll try, but here's the Wikipedia page.

Here are the details:

Sat Jun 13, 10am-5pm.
Sun Jun 14 10am-1pm.

Adobe Conference Center
801 North 34th Street
Seattle, WA 98103

Follow @barcampseattle on Twitter and use #bcs09 in your tweets.

Editors in Brief: Common Craft Article in Seattle Magazine

leelefever — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:11:00 +0000

A few months ago, we spent an afternoon with Jamie Friddle, a writer for Seattle Magazine, who was putting together a story on Common Craft. We were so excited. A few weeks later a photographer came to take pictures.

As Sachi will tell you, the process added a layer of anxiety to her day over the next few months. What would the article say? What photos would they use? I'm happy to report that the anxiety was all for naught. The 4 page feature appears in the May 2009 issue of Seattle Magazine and we love it. Jamie's writing captured, in a compelling and interesting way, what we're all about.

Read the article.

Going to Seattle Mind Camp 5.0

leelefever — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:07:36 +0000

After having been out of town for four Seattle MindCamps prior to this one, I'm excited to finally get to attend. MindCamp, as it's described on the home page, is:

"The self-organizing, digitally minded, entrepreneur-driven, overnight Seattle confab."

Essentially, geeks and entrepreneurs get together for 24 hours and learn from each other in a free-form format, like Bar Camp or Foo Camp. This year it's hosted at the downtown office of Synapse, starting this Saturday morning, November 22. I'm looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones in my home city. Are you going?

Going to Seattle Mind Camp 5.0

leelefever — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:07:36 +0000

After having been out of town for four Seattle MindCamps prior to this one, I'm excited to finally get to attend. MindCamp, as it's described on the home page, is:

"The self-organizing, digitally minded, entrepreneur-driven, overnight Seattle confab."

Going to Seattle Mind Camp 5.0

leelefever — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:07:36 +0000

After having been out of town for four Seattle MindCamps prior to this one, I'm excited to finally get to attend. MindCamp, as it's described on the home page, is:

"The self-organizing, digitally minded, entrepreneur-driven, overnight Seattle confab."

Amazon Fresh - Now Home Delivering Top Amazon.com Items

leelefever — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:42:49 +0000

Living in Seattle, a test-market for Amazon Fresh, we signed up and never looked back. Ordering groceries online and having them delivered within hours makes going to the grocery store seem like such a pain. With Amazon Fresh, Amazon proved to us they could replace the grocery store experience with home delivered goodness.

Just today, Sachi noticed something new and very interesting on the Amazon Fresh website - a new tab appeared pointing us to "Amazon Now."

On the same page is a small graphic that sums up the idea:

Amazon Now means that you can have the charming Amazon Fresh trucks deliver a Canon HD video camera and a bicycle seat along with your normal milk and eggs. No UPS, no FedEx - just an Amazon supply system that delivers electronics, books, toys, kitchen supplies, etc. along with your groceries.

We thought Amazon Fresh was amazing, but the idea of everything else arriving in those reusable boxes has my mind sufficiently blown. Once you get used to the idea that you don't have to go to the grocery store anymore, making the jump to other shopping experiences is an easy one.

By including non-grocery products of all sorts to Amazon Fresh customers, the company is testing a new system to deliver warehouses of products to the doorsteps of urban dwellers. Amazon Fresh is currently delivering to limited parts of Seattle, but I imagine the service will be expanded soon if it works here. We don't want to see another WebVan or Kozmo.

Read the Amazon Fresh FAQ for more info. I will report back soon on the Amazon Now experience.

The Button Every Keyboard Needs

leelefever — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:25:21 +0000

Found at Garage Billiards and Bowl in Seattle.

The Button Every Keyboard Needs

leelefever — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:25:21 +0000

Found at Garage Billiards and Bowl in Seattle.