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September 2009

• 30 Portland, Oregon, joins the ranks of the open cities, officially embracing open data and open source
• 29 WhereCamp PDX 2009: Where the where things are
• 29 Zipcar iPhone app shifts into gear
• 28 Ignite Portland 7: It’s a slow burn
• 28 Mayor Sam Adams and the City of Portland to open source, open data, and transparency communities: Let’s make this official
• 28 REMINDER: Mobile Portland talks SMS, MMS, and short codes tonight
• 25 Juice Pitcher: Help GadgetTrak join TheFunded and maybe even the funded
• 24 OEN Tom Holce Entrepreneurship Awards get downright webby for 2009
• 24 Portland’s Small Society builds an iPhone app for a little coffee shop called Starbucks
• 24 memePDX 005: WordCamp Portland, Second Porch, LinuxCon, Linux Plumbers, Google reCAPTCHA, and I made $384 on Twitter
• 23 Mike Berkley on ‘Preparing for the Next Web Boom’
• 23 Gluten make you gag? Have I got the social network for you
• 22 Matt Asay better than Fake Steve Jobs at faking Linus Torvalds
• 21 Second Porch: Thanks to Facebook ‘It’s complicated’ no longer applies to vacation rentals
• 21 Matt Mullenweg on martinis, jazz, and a little open source project called WordPress
• 21 OregonLive: Allowing OpenID logins, tweaking the blogs, and moving Oregon Reddit
• 18 Watching the Emmys? Portland Drupal developers will be
• 18 As the Portland Venture Capital turns: Former Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen joins Voyager
• 17 Rumor: WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg will be at Beer and Blog
• 17 memePDX 004: pdx.fm, Microsoft sponsors WordCamp, Kanye, One Web Day, Simler, Events, and Facebook, Facebook, Facebook
• 17 If you’re talking about similar things, you’re probably Simler
• 16 Is that a startup idea or are you just happy to see me?
• 15 pdx.fm: You got your podcasting in my radio schedule, you got your radio schedule in my podcasting
• 15 Portland One Web Day: Making the Web more accessible to more people
• 14 Jive Market Engagement promises to help companies monitor—and effectively participate in—social media
• 14 Reminder: eROI Lunch 2.0 is Wednesday
• 14 Oregon Angel Fund closes $3 million fund—and dishes out portions to three startups
• 11 Entrepreneurs’ Organization launches Portland Accelerator
• 10 Portland Sucks shows glimmers of pdx.fm
• 10 Keeping Portland weird: Microsoft signs on as premier sponsor of WordCamp Portland
• 10 memePDX 003: Geomena, WhereCamp PDX, Oregon gubernatorial candidates, DjangoCon, AT&T, Foursquare, RSS Cloud
• 9 WhereCamp PDX pinpoints a location
• 8 Want to go to LinuxCon for free? Better act fast
• 8 REMINDER: Discuss the PortlandOnline design contest with the City of Portland tonight at City Hall
• 8 One small step forward for buying local, one giant leap backward for hypocrisy
• 6 Oregon’s next governor: Assessing 14 candidates’ online presence and social media savvy
• 5 Weather got you down? Spend some time voting some Portland SXSW panel proposals up (or down)
• 4 John Kitzhaber takes a page from the Obama social media playbook for Oregon gubernatorial bid
• 4 Elemental Technologies to Host Lunch 2.0 in October
• 4 Salem launches a new meetup for the social techie types: SalemTribe
• 4 Geomena: Could this be the Wikipedia of geolocation data?
• 3 memePDX 002: Mobile, Portland on Fire, Apple, and green screen goodness
• 3 Miss the OEN Venture Northwest application deadline? No you didn’t
• 2 REMINDER: Reductive Labs Luke Kanies talks open source and venture capital tonight at Portland Web Innovators
• 2 PortlandOnline design contest redux: City of Portland revises its stance but there’s still more to discuss
• 1 Portland on Fire: Lighting it up again
• 1 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for August 2009
• 1 Dawn Foster joins the Olliance Group to lead new online community practice

 

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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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