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Blog Archives

July 2009

• 31 Trending up: Portland-based Webtrends acquires Seattle-based Widemile
• 30 Portland Ten Lunch 2.0 at NedSpace
• 30 Portland, Oregon, is the most entrepreneurial town in the world
• 29 Need a zillion dollars for your startup? ZINO Zillionaire Investment Forum might be a good place to start
• 29 REMINDER: Demo night at Nedspace Old Town grand opening tonight
• 28 Obama Twitter faux pas: Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley causing Threadless’ Jeffrey Kalmikoff fits
• 28 Entrepreneur: Portland is one of the best entrepreneurial cities
• 28 Digital Journalism Camp: Reporters, bloggers, podcasters gather to explore the evolution of journalism
• 28 Google and JanRain make every Google Apps for Domains an OpenID
• 27 NedSpace Hellzapoppin’: Celebrate a new Portland coworking space in Old Town, demo your startup project
• 27 Open source and mobile: Learn more about the Moblin Linux platform at Mobile Portland tonight
• 26 Video: Portland creative community gathers for round table on PortlandOnline design contest
• 26 Portland: Soaring unemployment and soaring numbers of young creatives continue to confound media
• 24 12+ Oregon beer blogs to help you through the Oregon Brewers Festival
• 24 Dear Portland Twitter fanatics: Twitter API guy Alex “@al3x” Payne will be in town this weekend
• 24 Social Media Club PDX: Video of Jeremiah Owyang
• 23 Looking for music recommendations? Strands recommends you look somewhere else
• 23 Wifi, caffeine, and coworking: 10+ Portland coffee shops for meeting up with Portland’s tech types
• 23 Internet Garage Sale: The trust of Twitter, the auctions of eBay, the design of Craigslist
• 22 Open Source for America: OSU Open Source Lab’s Deb Bryant named to steering committee
• 22 If you can’t bring BlogHer to Portland, bring Portland to BlogHer
• 22 Jive Software: Down economy? Could have fooled us
• 22 Oregon Media Central: Give us your blogs, your bloggers, your reporters yearning to blog free
• 21 Pukka is pure awesome whether you manage multiple Delicious accounts or not
• 21 Round table: Discussing the PortlandOnline contest, the Portland design community, and spec work
• 21 Ontier Pixetell now available: Web conference attendees everywhere breathe a sigh of relief
• 20 Clicky releases new look for Spy real-time Web-traffic analytics
• 20 Andy Baio joins crowdfunding startup Kickstarter as CTO
• 20 Internet Strategy Forum: Jeremiah Owyang in Portland for Summit, Steve Gehlen hands over the ISF reins
• 20 REMINDER: HTML5-PDX meets for the first time tonight at Nedspace Old Town
• 17 Beer and Blog Portland shall be referred to as Free Beer and Blog this week thanks to AboutUs
• 16 Shredded Money and Freebies at Lunch 2.0
• 16 Ignite Portland 6: Tips and tricks or How to get the most out of your Ignite night
• 15 Every Silicon Forest vote counts: Fieldrunners, Air Sharing, Stanza nominated for iPhone App Awards
• 15 End Bloglessness 2: This time… it’s hosted
• 15 Decloaking: Portland’s Blackbox Republic wants to foster the Burning Man vibe 52 weeks a year
• 15 As the Twitter turns: Chappelle’s (no) Show Portland or Dave’s not here… wait hold the phone, yes he is
• 14 Happy 10th Birthday, MetaFilter!
• 14 WordCamp Portland 2009 continues to add awesome speakers
• 14 Portwiture: What does your Twitter stream look like?*
• 13 Talking rocket surgery: Kryptiq lands secure communications for NASA flight surgeons
• 13 Portland Web and graphic design community to the City: Spec work? Ur doin it wrong
• 13 Survey: Which Silicon Forest startup organizations do you find most helpful?
• 12 Reminder: Pacific Real Estate Partners Lunch 2.0 at Jive
• 10 Love Twitter, your iPhone, and hide-and-seek? There’s an app for that: hideNtweet
• 10 Oregon Small Business Boost results: Eugene’s Palo Alto Software gives away more than $3 million of software
• 9 Oregon Entrepreneur Network Tom Holce Awards finalists feature a couple of Silicon Florist regulars
• 9 Wish more Oregon venture capital firms blogged? OVP grants your wish
• 9 Portland Economic Development Strategy passes, City formally recognizes open source, mobile, coworking, and startup communities
• 8 Looking to implement OpenID? Google recommends JanRain RPX
• 8 If Twitter is just people talking about what they’re eating, then iAte’s real-time local restaurant reviews are sheer genius
• 8 ¿Su CRM habla español? MioWorks does that and more
• 7 Jive announces JiveWorld, its inaugural user group… in San Francisco
• 7 Meeting at City Hall: Open Source, Mobile, Startups and the Portland Economic Development Strategy
• 7 Nedspace II: Former Vidoop space in Old Town keeps its startup flare
• 6 Uniquely Portland Oregon opts for a more businessy kind of PDX tweetup
• 6 Matt Nees named new Software Association of Oregon (SAO) president
• 5 Party on, Wayne… err Cami Kaos! Strange Love Live gets Portland cable access slot
• 3 Looking to beat the heat with your friends this July 4th? Send out a Beer Signal
• 2 Peat Bakke joins OpenID proponent JanRain
• 2 Silicon Florist sucks
• 1 Not using OpenID? Sears and Kmart are more Web 2.0 than you, thanks to JanRain
• 1 Contenture introduces microsubscriptions to help you monetize your blog
• 1 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for June 2009

 

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Silicon Florist is blog about the Silicon Forest (a tech corridor comprised of Portland, Oregon, and the surrounding areas) startups, blogs, and events that fly below the RADAR. Silicon Florist is written by Rick Turoczy. You can connect with me on: Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn. Rest assured, tips, news submissions, and press releases are welcome and encouraged. Please feel free to submit them to siliconflorist@gmail.com or feel free to share your Silicon Forest based project with me.

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