October 17th, 2008
Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 17
Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy
Paul Graham writes “The economic situation is apparently so grim that some experts fear we may be in for a stretch as bad as the mid seventies. When Microsoft and Apple were founded.”
Downtown Portland Restaurant, West Cafe, Offers Dinner Twitter Promotion
West Cafe offers “Portland Twitterati are invited to spend some quality time at the West Cafe, a fine downtown Portland dining and drinking establishment. Because we’ve begun to experience such a positive response to our involvement with the Twitter community, we wanted to ‘Thank You’ by offering Twitters a special dinner deal.”
Apply to the Knight News Challenge
Andrew Hyde writes “$5,000,000 is being given away to fund innovative ideas that address the following points: Use or create digital, open-source technology as the code base, use news and information to serve the public interest, benefit one or more specific geographic communities, and be innovative.” Um, hello? I can’t swing a piece of bacon without hitting 20 Portland startups that qualify for this.
(The hardest of the 4. A map mashup
(The hardest of the 4. A map mashup
Would You Like a Job as an Online Community Manager?
Marshall Kirkpatrick writes “One of the services that I provide for consulting clients is assistance in recruiting bloggers and social media experts for hire. In the past 2 months I’ve helped 3 companies find company bloggers or community managers. Right now I’m working on a list of 3 to 5 high-quality candidates for a community management position for a very innovative and cool startup.”
This is an interesting lineup. Paul Graham has a point! Thanks for continually connecting the Portland community to great Tech news.
Make sure to push those startups to apply!
It can just be an idea as well!