What did you do this past weekend?
Yeah, really? Oh? You don’t say. Oh, that sounds nice. Me? Oh, you know. The usual.
Say, you’ll never guess what a bunch of our peers did over the weekend, though.
Oh, not much. Just started five separate startup projects.
That’s right. The group that gathered for Portland Startup Weekend managed to […]
Well, another WebVisions is in the books. And given that I wasn’t able to attend, I’ve been really happy to see a ton of write-ups on the event.
I can’t keep all this goodness to myself, so I thought I’d provide a round-up on all the comments and posts I’ve found.
Slides from WebVisions 2008 (Thanks to […]
It’s not about awards, but they are nice
Via the Substance blog “Substance picked up three awards at the first annual Webvisionary Awards event on Thursday, May 23, 2008. We were recognized for Oden or Durant (Advertising category), bambu (Business category) and Logobama (Viral category).”
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My Dotcom Journey
Tom Turnbull writes “It kinda/sorta started back in 1989 when I was attending law school at the University of Washington. One of the students decided to go work at an outfit called Microsoft. My little 512K Mac and I smugly thought that was a silly idea. Of course this was way before the […]
Heads up! There has been a last second location change for Portland Startup Weekend. The event will now be held at the Vidoop offices in Old Town. The event begins tonight, May 23, at 6:00 PM.
On a side note, I’m not sure if a Twitter hashtag has been proposed (or if Twitter will even be […]
WebVisions 2008: Schedule
WebVisions will be held at the Oregon Convention Center’s E Series Meeting Rooms. Speakers and schedules for workshops and sessions are subject to change and seating is provided on first come, first served basis.
Twitter has had a rough week
Jack writes “I have this graph up on my screen all the time. It should […]
IBM Lotus Connections Evangelist now works at Jive
Gia Lyons shares “My passion is to help people figure out how to work better with each other, to do better things together. And it’s not just about giving them the right tools. It’s about showing them how to change their culture so that they can become the […]
Roughly six months ago, the Portland startup community put its collective effort into casting votes for “Portland Startup Weekend,” a local version of the successful Startup Weekend events designed to test our collective entrepreneurial mettle by challenging participants to form a company in a 54-hour period.
Thanks to that collective voting effort, Portland was among the […]
WhereCamp 2008
Audrey Eschright writes “I think we really, absolutely have a WhereCamp Portland. Let’s say in October. There’s just too much interesting mapping and location-geekery happening here to not do it. Who wants to help make this happen?”
Submit an Ignite Proposal & Complete the LoT Survey Now!
Dawn Foster writes “Ignite proposals are due on May […]
[Editor: Nino Marchetti, a local freelance technology writer, recently put together an article about the local Web community. And while it’s a little strange to see myself quoted in an article on my own blog, I was happy to oblige. Thanks to Nino for offering up this story.]
The Portland Internet Effect
By Nino Marchetti
What makes Portland […]
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