Posted by Matt Bell at 11/1/07 11:26 a.m.

Hi John,

Thank you for the mention. Your link points to our SourceLabs' company website and not www.swik.net which is our wiki for open source developers.

Regards,

Matt Bell
VP of Sales and Business Development
SourceLabs, Inc.
www.sourcelabs.com

Posted by John Cook at 11/1/07 11:43 a.m.

I did that because SWiK was not working when I tried to access it this morning and I didn't want to place a broken link on the page. I will make the change, now that it appears as if the site is responding.

Thanks Matt.

John Cook

Posted by unregistered user at 11/1/07 12:38 p.m.

It strikes me that while there are a lot of web startups in Seattle, there are very few "big names" here (e.g. Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Wikipedia, Hi5, Flickr, Digg, etc.).

Why is that?

Posted by unregistered user at 11/1/07 1:14 p.m.

Not entirely sure actually how Others Online climbed 31 positions. We haven't done any advertising, no press releases, no attempt to make any noise, and we haven't turned on any of our distribution deals yet either -- still "pre-launch".

But user registrations, toolbar downloads and especially widget usage is way up this month over last. It must be that TiE panel I sat on, next to you John! ;-)

Posted by unregistered user at 11/1/07 7:37 p.m.

Mpire has a new spinoff business called WidgetBucks (just launched this month). It has an Alexa ranking of 11,775.

Posted by unregistered user at 11/2/07 9:27 a.m.

Interesting question - what are the qualifications to be listed as a start-up?

I know of a couple other companies around 5 years some that have received VC funding and others who have not accepted VC funding yet have upwards of 50-100 employees - what about these disqualifies them from such a list?

What is the info/criteria that figures into this index and others that sort companies into such a classification?

Thank you!

Posted by unregistered user at 11/3/07 9:33 a.m.

Interesting comments. No big hits in Seattle? One reason might be the content: 11 more online picture editing sites and a half dozen "secret stalker" sites makes one think that the demographic in Seattle is made up of 2,000,000 cat-enthusiasts. Since this isn't true, these startups offer no new value and will evaporate, like fog in the spring.