Cheezburger Network (formerly Pet Holdings) retained its No. 1 position in Seattle 2.0’s monthly rankings of local startups’ Web traffic. The rest of the top five were Zillow, Picnik, BuddyTV, and Wetpaint. Survey Analytics made a strong jump to No. 6. Other strong gains were made by Smith & Tinker, Gist, GlobalScholar, and Seattle 2.0 itself. Marcelo Calbucci, Seattle 2.0’s creator and publisher, now says he will be spending 90 percent of his time on the site, with the goal of growing it into a bigger media company.
Author: Gregory T. Huang
Greg is a veteran journalist who has covered a wide range of science, technology, and business. As former editor in chief, he overaw daily news, features, and events across Xconomy's national network. Before joining Xconomy, he was a features editor at New Scientist magazine, where he edited and wrote articles on physics, technology, and neuroscience. Previously he was senior writer at Technology Review, where he reported on emerging technologies, R&D, and advances in computing, robotics, and applied physics. His writing has also appeared in Wired, Nature, and The Atlantic Monthly’s website. He was named a New York Times professional fellow in 2003.
Greg is the co-author of Guanxi (Simon & Schuster, 2006), about Microsoft in China and the global competition for talent and technology. Before becoming a journalist, he did research at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. He has published 20 papers in scientific journals and conferences and spoken on innovation at Adobe, Amazon, eBay, Google, HP, Microsoft, Yahoo, and other organizations. He has a Master’s and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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