   This week, the Seattle area has lived up to its reputation as
home to the future of technology, with three local (or formerly
local) innovators making the national media rounds in Technology
Review, the New York Times, and Time Magazine. And not in just
one field or sector either—the three span academia (smart
sensors), a major online video company, and a pervasive viral
humor blog startup.  —Jason Kilar, CEO of online video website
Hulu and a former Amazon executive, wrote a personal essay for
the New York Times about his journey into the world of Internet
startups, including his first meeting with Amazon CEO Jeff
Bezos, back when Bezos could be much more casual in presentation
than he could probably get away with now. Kilar left Amazon in
2006 after becoming senior vice president of worldwide
application software, to work for Hulu.  —Ben Huh, the Seattle-
based owner of wildly successful humor websites like Lolcats (I
Can Has Cheezburger) and FAIL Blog, was profiled in a Time
Magazine story about his comp