Beer & Roll-Up-Your-Sleeves: Help out Legion of Tech set up for BarCamp
Justin Kistner writes “This Friday will be the awesomely fun Portland BarCamp. Most of the Beer and Bloggers will be attending this event, which starts at 6pm. So, rather than try to sprint to BarCamp from the Green Dragon, we’re going to roll up […]
Last week, after reading Aaron Hockley’s call to implement OpenID, it got me to thinking: How many sites in Portland—arguably the de facto leader in OpenID development—and the Silicon Forest have actually implemented OpenID?
Well, thanks to Kevin Fox at Vidoop/ConfIdent and a number of other folks chiming in, we were able to gather the following […]
Raw Mobile Browser Data Released
Via the Cloud Four blog “We’ve been asked by a few people if we can release the preliminary data that we’re gathering in our Mobile Browser Concurrency Test. So here you go: raw data from the mobile concurrency test.”
mr. diggles - commuter feed + you
Portland mutual admiration society. Mr. Diggles writes […]
Talk to enough startups and the conversation eventually turns to that of funding. And the search for that seemingly elusive operating capital.
Ultimately, this discussion devolves into a lament about the frustrations of the VC dance, the cross-purposes, the potential loss of control of which entrepreneurs live in fear, and, ultimately, some inherent evil in the […]
When I first sat down with Derek Brandow and Jason Gallic of Eugene-based (but hopefully making the move to Portland) YottaByte Group, I didn’t know quite what to expect. And by the time we said our good-byes, I was shaking my head in disbelief.
And since that time I’ve been struggling to get this post written. […]
Corvallis-based Strands, the service that recommends things you might like based on your behavior, has announced the acquisition of Expensr, a move that takes its recommendation services beyond the realm of entertainment to personal finance.
Expensr will be brought into the Strands fold as moneyStrands, a personal money management solution based on Strands recommendation technology.
moneyStrands is […]
If there are two things that have a firm foothold in Portland, they’re technology and sustainability. Well, and a crazy housing market.
Okay, so that’s three things.
So what happens when you combine tech, green living, and housing? You get GreenRenter, a new resource that helps you search for your own green living (or office) space in […]
Interop Founder Dan Lynch Invests in Hot Security Startups
Via Darkreading. “He has also invested in a [Vancouver, WA] startup called Iterasi, which is beta-testing its product that ‘notarizes’ live Web pages to preserve and save them as-is and securely stores them. ‘It’s for compliance stuff… and for proving you read and saw something,’ Lynch says. […]
As is probably exceedingly obvious, there’s one thing I try to do everyday: Get Oregon’s Web-startup scene the recognition it deserves.
Granted, mine is a small voice, but I do what I can.
One of the ways I’ve found to help get some of this cool stuff out in front of a wider audience has been working […]
Portland-based Cloud Four, a burgeoning startup that has found more and more of its time dedicated to mobile development, could use some of your help.
We need your help for a research project. If you have a phone that have web access, please go to http://cloudfour.com/mobile/ to test the number of concurrent connections your phone makes. […]
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