Comments on: Get all Nostradamus-esque-ish by exercising your powers of Portland prognostication http://siliconflorist.com/2008/12/18/get-all-nostradamus-esque-ish-by-exercising-your-powers-of-portland-prognostication/ Covering the blossoming startup industry in Portland, Oregon, and the Silicon Forest Thu, 24 May 2012 03:16:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Troy H http://siliconflorist.com/2008/12/18/get-all-nostradamus-esque-ish-by-exercising-your-powers-of-portland-prognostication/comment-page-1/#comment-6437 Troy H Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:37:43 +0000 http://siliconflorist.com/2008/12/18/get-all-nostradamus-esque-ish-by-exercising-your-powers-of-portland-prognostication/#comment-6437 My bacon meme prediction is starting to get some traction already. http://is.gd/hPFb My bacon meme prediction is starting to get some traction already. http://is.gd/hPFb

]]> By: Concrete5 pours the foundation for another Portland user group : Oregon Startup Blog http://siliconflorist.com/2008/12/18/get-all-nostradamus-esque-ish-by-exercising-your-powers-of-portland-prognostication/comment-page-1/#comment-6229 Concrete5 pours the foundation for another Portland user group : Oregon Startup Blog Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:17:09 +0000 http://siliconflorist.com/2008/12/18/get-all-nostradamus-esque-ish-by-exercising-your-powers-of-portland-prognostication/#comment-6229 [...] 2009 thus far, I would dub it the “Year of the User Group.” And that would also make Audrey Eschright’s prediction [...] [...] 2009 thus far, I would dub it the “Year of the User Group.” And that would also make Audrey Eschright’s prediction [...]

]]> By: Concrete5 pours the foundation for another Portland user group » Silicon Florist http://siliconflorist.com/2008/12/18/get-all-nostradamus-esque-ish-by-exercising-your-powers-of-portland-prognostication/comment-page-1/#comment-6224 Concrete5 pours the foundation for another Portland user group » Silicon Florist Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:20:16 +0000 http://siliconflorist.com/2008/12/18/get-all-nostradamus-esque-ish-by-exercising-your-powers-of-portland-prognostication/#comment-6224 [...] 2009 thus far, I would dub it the “Year of the User Group.” And that would also make Audrey Eschright’s prediction [...] [...] 2009 thus far, I would dub it the “Year of the User Group.” And that would also make Audrey Eschright’s prediction [...]

]]> By: Strange Love Live recaps 2008 and looks toward 2009 : Oregon Startup Blog http://siliconflorist.com/2008/12/18/get-all-nostradamus-esque-ish-by-exercising-your-powers-of-portland-prognostication/comment-page-1/#comment-6197 Strange Love Live recaps 2008 and looks toward 2009 : Oregon Startup Blog Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:51:24 +0000 http://siliconflorist.com/2008/12/18/get-all-nostradamus-esque-ish-by-exercising-your-powers-of-portland-prognostication/#comment-6197 [...] Cami and Dr. Normal altered the usual format giving us the opportunity to talk for a good 90 minutes—and that led to some pretty interesting discussions including the top events on 2008, Vidoop, Shizzow, Bacon Geek, Beer and Blog, KGW’s The Square with Stephanie Stricklen and Aaron Weiss, Twitter, Rael Dornfest, pdxtst, Our PDX, Neighborhood Notes, OpenID, calling Facebook Connect the Hotmail of this generation… even indulging in some conspiracy theory and what’s to be in 2009. [...] [...] Cami and Dr. Normal altered the usual format giving us the opportunity to talk for a good 90 minutes—and that led to some pretty interesting discussions including the top events on 2008, Vidoop, Shizzow, Bacon Geek, Beer and Blog, KGW’s The Square with Stephanie Stricklen and Aaron Weiss, Twitter, Rael Dornfest, pdxtst, Our PDX, Neighborhood Notes, OpenID, calling Facebook Connect the Hotmail of this generation… even indulging in some conspiracy theory and what’s to be in 2009. [...]

]]> By: Strange Love Live recaps 2008 and looks toward 2009 » Silicon Florist http://siliconflorist.com/2008/12/18/get-all-nostradamus-esque-ish-by-exercising-your-powers-of-portland-prognostication/comment-page-1/#comment-6191 Strange Love Live recaps 2008 and looks toward 2009 » Silicon Florist Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:39:49 +0000 http://siliconflorist.com/2008/12/18/get-all-nostradamus-esque-ish-by-exercising-your-powers-of-portland-prognostication/#comment-6191 [...] Cami and Dr. Normal altered the usual format giving us the opportunity to talk for a good 90 minutes—and that led to some pretty interesting discussions including the top events on 2008, Vidoop, Shizzow, Bacon Geek, KGW’s The Square with Stephanie Stricklen and Aaron Weiss, Twitter, Rael Dornfest, pdxtst, Our PDX, Neighborhood Notes, OpenID, calling Facebook Connect the Hotmail of this generation… even indulging in some conspiracy theory and what’s to be in 2009. [...] [...] Cami and Dr. Normal altered the usual format giving us the opportunity to talk for a good 90 minutes—and that led to some pretty interesting discussions including the top events on 2008, Vidoop, Shizzow, Bacon Geek, KGW’s The Square with Stephanie Stricklen and Aaron Weiss, Twitter, Rael Dornfest, pdxtst, Our PDX, Neighborhood Notes, OpenID, calling Facebook Connect the Hotmail of this generation… even indulging in some conspiracy theory and what’s to be in 2009. [...]

]]> By: Troy H http://siliconflorist.com/2008/12/18/get-all-nostradamus-esque-ish-by-exercising-your-powers-of-portland-prognostication/comment-page-1/#comment-6189 Troy H Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:36:17 +0000 http://siliconflorist.com/2008/12/18/get-all-nostradamus-esque-ish-by-exercising-your-powers-of-portland-prognostication/#comment-6189 * A backlash against the bacon meme will pick up steam in 2009, causing the pro-bacon meme to be deemed to have reached its peak in 2008. * The New York Times will start diverting its attention away from Portland and start focusing more on the Obama strongholds of Chicago and Hawaii. * Trendsetters of the Portland tech community will start to migrate away from Twitter, not because of reliability issues, but because it will have gone too mainstream (relatives, corporate management, etc.) for their liking. It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. -Yogi Berra * A backlash against the bacon meme will pick up steam in 2009, causing the pro-bacon meme to be deemed to have reached its peak in 2008.

* The New York Times will start diverting its attention away from Portland and start focusing more on the Obama strongholds of Chicago and Hawaii.

* Trendsetters of the Portland tech community will start to migrate away from Twitter, not because of reliability issues, but because it will have gone too mainstream (relatives, corporate management, etc.) for their liking.

It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future. -Yogi Berra

]]> By: Matthew http://siliconflorist.com/2008/12/18/get-all-nostradamus-esque-ish-by-exercising-your-powers-of-portland-prognostication/comment-page-1/#comment-6188 Matthew Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:24:45 +0000 http://siliconflorist.com/2008/12/18/get-all-nostradamus-esque-ish-by-exercising-your-powers-of-portland-prognostication/#comment-6188 As a forthcoming transplant from SF, my observation is the following: Consumer internet: * Business models that focus on affiliate and e-commerce revenue will grow substantially (since brand advertising budgets have gone way south) * Flash focused Websites will *not* take off as mobile availabilty of liteweight sites gains and free wifi connections (share bandwidth) gains. This will create further focus on liteweight basic HTML sites that deliver high usability and availability. Business internet and services: * Integration of heavy business software will halt as companies try to make due with fewer tech resources. This will lead to.... * Open source software a wide range of developers are familiar with will make inroads, especially at the 2-100 employee range. This will be be accompanied by advertising supported models as b-to-b enterprise companies strive for more qualified leads for their pay-before-you-play software. Call this the Plenty of Fish effect. Portland Scene: * The Portland scene will need to "advertise" and "fund" itself as is possible to compete with growing tech communities in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles. Boston: access to graduating workforce Chicago: access to graduating workforce LA: access to media Portland: ?? As a forthcoming transplant from SF, my observation is the following:

Consumer internet:
* Business models that focus on affiliate and e-commerce revenue will grow substantially (since brand advertising budgets have gone way south)

* Flash focused Websites will *not* take off as mobile availabilty of liteweight sites gains and free wifi connections (share bandwidth) gains. This will create further focus on liteweight basic HTML sites that deliver high usability and availability.

Business internet and services:
* Integration of heavy business software will halt as companies try to make due with fewer tech resources. This will lead to….

* Open source software a wide range of developers are familiar with will make inroads, especially at the 2-100 employee range. This will be be accompanied by advertising supported models as b-to-b enterprise companies strive for more qualified leads for their pay-before-you-play software. Call this the Plenty of Fish effect.

Portland Scene:
* The Portland scene will need to “advertise” and “fund” itself as is possible to compete with growing tech communities in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles.
Boston: access to graduating workforce
Chicago: access to graduating workforce
LA: access to media
Portland: ??

]]> By: What’s better than Boxing Day? Strange Love Live on Boxing Day, of course! : Oregon Startup Blog http://siliconflorist.com/2008/12/18/get-all-nostradamus-esque-ish-by-exercising-your-powers-of-portland-prognostication/comment-page-1/#comment-6161 What’s better than Boxing Day? Strange Love Live on Boxing Day, of course! : Oregon Startup Blog Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:09:17 +0000 http://siliconflorist.com/2008/12/18/get-all-nostradamus-esque-ish-by-exercising-your-powers-of-portland-prognostication/#comment-6161 [...] forget, if you—yes, YOU!—want to be part of the Strange Love Live show, make sure to proffer your predilection for prognostication by submitting your predictions for the Silicon Forest .... We’ll be discussing the best submissions during the [...] [...] forget, if you—yes, YOU!—want to be part of the Strange Love Live show, make sure to proffer your predilection for prognostication by submitting your predictions for the Silicon Forest …. We’ll be discussing the best submissions during the [...]

]]> By: M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://siliconflorist.com/2008/12/18/get-all-nostradamus-esque-ish-by-exercising-your-powers-of-portland-prognostication/comment-page-1/#comment-6160 M. Edward (Ed) Borasky Thu, 25 Dec 2008 01:50:02 +0000 http://siliconflorist.com/2008/12/18/get-all-nostradamus-esque-ish-by-exercising-your-powers-of-portland-prognostication/#comment-6160 I sorta went wild with this on my blog. :-) But I can tell you who the winners are going to be: * Everyone who's on Twitter from PDX * Everyone who goes to Beer and Blog * Everyone who hangs out at CubeSpace * Everyone who works in open source * Everyone who watches StrangeLoveLive * Everyone who submits a presentation to IgnitePortland * Everyone associated with BackFencePDX I don't know about the bacon thing, though. :) I sorta went wild with this on my blog. :-) But I can tell you who the winners are going to be:

* Everyone who’s on Twitter from PDX
* Everyone who goes to Beer and Blog
* Everyone who hangs out at CubeSpace
* Everyone who works in open source
* Everyone who watches StrangeLoveLive
* Everyone who submits a presentation to IgnitePortland
* Everyone associated with BackFencePDX

I don’t know about the bacon thing, though. :)

]]> By: Amber Case http://siliconflorist.com/2008/12/18/get-all-nostradamus-esque-ish-by-exercising-your-powers-of-portland-prognostication/comment-page-1/#comment-6158 Amber Case Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:12:25 +0000 http://siliconflorist.com/2008/12/18/get-all-nostradamus-esque-ish-by-exercising-your-powers-of-portland-prognostication/#comment-6158 Two words: Mobile Development. We'll also get on the map for the bacon meme, which will be interesting. As separate expert groups grow and mature, the community might not be as cohesive, but the Open Source Bridge will probably bring everyone together. It will be BIG. Two words: Mobile Development.

We’ll also get on the map for the bacon meme, which will be interesting.

As separate expert groups grow and mature, the community might not be as cohesive, but the Open Source Bridge will probably bring everyone together. It will be BIG.

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