TechWag

Louis Gray over on Friend feed points folks to a new article that talks about the top 50 movers and shakers, the most important folks in Silicon Valley. The counterpart to that is that we should probably sit down and develop a list for the Seattle area. As I get involved with the MIT Venture Lab (who really does a great job of setting up public pitches, and helping folks get VC funding in the area), I’ll be able to help out and do more in this regards later on. (I am still a noob when it comes to this kind of interaction with the Seattle VC and Startup Group).

NowPublic examined statistics in each of these categories from Alexa, Compete, Facebook, Flickr, Google, Quantcast, Technorati, YouTube, and various other blogs and sites, to create a list of Silicon Valley’s leading influencers. It then narrowed the list to 50 by analyzing and documenting individuals’ presence and popularity in each of these channels, applying a weighted scoring system, determined by the strength of specific traits held in each online community. Source: Now Public

Oh wait, umm, we have something just like that for business, and that is Marcelo’s list of Seattle Startups that he publishes monthly, and people follow almost religiously. Oh wait, he uses dang near the same metrics, but he tracks companies, not individuals.

That is one thing that Seattle does not have to the same extreme that Silicon Valley has, and that is the robust blogging network with all access to startups and other companies. While I have tried to do some of this, it is not easy, nor do I have the time to truly track the ups and downs of the Seattle startup community the way that I want to. But honestly, we just do not have the bloggers out there to really make a robust blogging community.

Moreover, the Seattle startup scene is still dominated by Silicon Valley and new technical bloggers, it is not a blurb on Techwag that is going to drive traffic, no it is going to be a blurb on TechCrunch that is going to drive a phenomenal amount of traffic to the new Seattle startup.

While it would be fun to do an “all call” and start up our own blogging group, if anyone is interested in taking on the Silicon Valley group, and come up with an indigenous group of Seattle bloggers who want to develop and take on and own the Seattle start up scene from the blogging viewpoint, that would be something I would be a member of in a heartbeat. And it might not be all that bad an idea, maybe we need our own version of “Seattle TechCrunch”, one that looks deeply at what we have going on here.

But we would need a lot of support from the some 200+ startups in Seattle to help make that happen. Could happen, might not be a bad idea.

See you at Gnomedex, talk to me about it, I’ll offer time, money, set up, and slave labor at cheap discount rates.

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