Former Microsoft executive Scott Oki and former AskMe Chief Technology Officer Digvijay Chauhan have created a new non profit called SeeYourImpact, which utilizes camera phones and other technologies to get a glimpse at how their donations are helping people in need. Kristi Heim of The Seattle Times has the story, which also notes a similar effort from Microsoft Research's Adnan Mahmud who has established the Jolkona Foundation with his wife.
VentureBeat has details on the latest offering from AdmitOne -- the keystroke analysis security company formerly known as BioPassword. The Issaquah company is now touting an analytics business called Scout Analytics that indicates how and when people log on to the corporate network.
Bellevue's DreamBox Learning -- a maker of online math games for Kindergartners to second graders-- has named education experts Dr. Francis "Skip" Fennell and Dr. Catherine Fosnot to its advisory board.
Self-described Web geek Keith Vance pulls the plug on the Seattle online news publication, The Seattle, Courant, and explains why it did a "belly flop."
TechCrunch lists the top 100 most "networked" venture capital firms and finds that Draper Fisher Jurvetson -- which has an outpost in Seattle led by Bill Bryant -- is at the top of the list. Others who have strong networks include familiar names such as Sequoia, Accel, Intel Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The first and only true Seattle firm on the list is Bezos Expeditions, the venture arm of Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos. It ranked 73rd. Meanwhile, VentureBeat's Matt Marshall wonders if this is the best way to rank VC firms.
Web hosting provider Rackspace encountered some technical issues today, knocking some Web sites offline.
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