List of Riskiest Cities: Seattle #1, Portland #10

The 50 riskiest cities, according to a Norton from Symantec survey:

1. Seattle	18. Oakland, Calif.	35. Chicago
2. Boston	19. Nashville-Davidson, Tenn.	36. Baltimore
3. Washington, D.C.	20. San Jose, Calif.	37. Oklahoma City
4. San Francisco	21. Columbus, Ohio	38. Philadelphia
5. Raleigh, N.C.	22. Dallas	39. Jacksonville, FL\la.
6. Atlanta	23. Kansas City, Mo.	40. Tulsa, Okla.
7. Minneapolis	24. New York	41. San Antonio
8. Denver	25. Indianapolis	42. Milwaukee
9. Austin, Texas	26. Albuquerque, N.M.	43. Cleveland
10. Portland, Ore.	27. Miami	44. Tucson, Ariz.
11. Honolulu	28. Omaha, Neb.	45. Long Beach, Calif.
12. Charlotte, N.C.	29. Virginia Beach, Va.	46. Fort Worth, Texas
13. Las Vegas	30. Los Angeles	47. Fresno, Calif.
14. San Diego	31. Cincinnati, Ohio	48. Memphis, Tenn.
15. Colorado Springs, Colo.	32. Houston	49. El Paso, Texas
16. Sacramento, Calif.	33. St. Louis, Mo.	50. Detroit
17. Pittsburgh	34. Phoenix

Google to buy Seattle's own Picnik

Word today is that Google is buying up Seattle-based Picnik.com.

More on the Picnik blog and the Official Google Blog

You may recall we've talked about Picnik on this blog before, first in Fall 2007 when they had announced Premium features. Since then, I've enjoyed meeting CEO Jonathan Sposato at various events around town and have enjoyed watching Picnik grow.

The team has been nominated for a 2010 WTIA Industry Achievement Award-- the awards are this Thursday. Will Picnik win one last award for their online photo editing software as Bitnik, Inc? Certainly the acquisition will be the talk of the town for a few days.

Congratulations to the entire Picnik gang!

Updated 1:00PM: to include additional information, link to Google blog, and a look back at previous posts.

Disclosure: I have a personal relationship with a Google employee. This person didn't contribute to this -or any- report, nor would this employee probably even read this blog. *sigh*