Silicon Florist

February 2012

• 08 Shit that Silicon Forest startups almost said
• 08 Eee-aye, eee-aye, oh, i-o: AppFog adds Blitz.io and Iron.io support
• 07 Meet the Startup: Starting the conversation with Upstart Labs
• 07 Which school has the most Portland startup cred?
• 07 Reed College Start Up Lab launches seven new startups
• 03 Have you seen all the Oscar nominated films? Did you torrent them?
• 01 Staying up working on your side project? Why not apply to PIE so you can… um stay up working on your startup?
• 01 Keiretsu Forum highlights investment in 4-tell and CrowdCompass

January 2012

• 31 Meet the Startup: Piecing together the first PIE Demo Day
• 27 Bend launches VentureBox with a different take on the accelerator model. Startups pay to play.
• 27 Node.js unicorns and battle bots at NodePDX
• 26 Interested in tracking AngelList activity for early stage Portland startups?
• 25 Portland side projects Gramfeed and Vizify Tweetsheet get a little love from CNN
• 24 Startups come into Pitch Club a wad of cookie dough. They leave carved out of wood.
• 24 Meet the Startup: Chatting with Portland mayoral candidate Jefferson Smith
• 23 Talk fast… err think about talking fast: SAO TechIgnite proposals are open
• 23 Open Source Bridge opens call for talk proposals
• 23 Political party: Mayoral candidate Eileen Brady celebrates the Portland startup scene
• 19 Meet the Startup: Sitting down with Stayhound
• 18 VendScreen reinvents the vending machine using Android — and lands $12 million in funding
• 17 PIE Demo Day livestream, Tuesday at 2:30 PM PT: Meet Athletepath, Cloudability, DailyPath, MoPix, Revisu, spotsi, Stayhound, and VendScreen
• 13 When one door closes… Geoloqi offers a new tool to help SimpleGeo customers transition
• 13 Want to see what’s been cooking at PIE? Come to PIE Demo Day, January 17
• 11 Think Senator Ron Wyden is the only one who thinks SOPA sucks? Think again
• 11 Could have foretold this one: Portland Seed Fund alum 4-Tell snags $1 million round
• 11 PDC allocates more funding for the Portland Seed Fund
• 11 GadgetTrak CameraTrace: From side project to new product
• 11 Send me an Angel: Interested in investing? OEN Angel Oregon would love to chat with you
• 10 ClearEdge Power signs $500 million deal
• 10 Robert Wagner: “I was a Silicon Lumberjack.” The WordPress one. Not the Tumblr one.
• 10 America’s Funniest Home videos + LOL cats = BlooperBox
• 10 Mutual admiration society: Portland is the featured city on the Instagram blog
• 10 4 out of 5 dentists agree: Creating new login credentials sucks
• 10 Meet the Startup: Getting the balance on Silicon Valley Bank
• 10 Ignite Portland 10: And the presenters are…
• 10 Forrester pushes push notifications as Urban Airship pushes their 10 billionth notification
• 09 REMINDER: Your Portland Seed Fund application is due. Like right now, procrastinator pants.
• 09 Working to dispel the “You can’t get funded in Portland” myth
• 09 Portland Business Journal “Forty under 40″ recognizes tech types
• 09 Creative Market: Finally, an app store for creative assets beyond stock photography and illustration
• 06 In Portland? Female? Like to hack? Women Who Hack was made for you
• 06 Oregon-Israel Business Alliance and the Software Association of Oregon want you to meet Jonathan Medved
• 06 Urban Airship snags former Skype exec as Chief Revenue Officer
• 05 Instagram filters not cutting it anymore? Maybe it’s time to bring the bling with PhotoBlast
• 05 REMINDER: You have a week to complete your OSCON 2012 proposal
• 04 $500,000+ on Kickstarter and counting: Elevation iPhone dock by Portland’s Casey Hopkins
• 04 REMINDER: Last chance to pitch the Portland Seed Fund tonight
• 04 Quintessential Portland iOS shop Small Society acquired by Walmart Labs
• 04 Get a new iPhone over the holidays? Make sure it’s not toast. Or it is TOAST. Or whatever.
• 03 Portland Seed Fund and TechStars Seattle alum Vizify lands $1.2 million
• 03 Meet the Startup: Finding the story on spotsi
• 02 Dive Head First into Mobile Web with some of Portland’s most respected mobile types
• 02 I’ve been letting you down, Portland

December 2011

• 30 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for 2011
• 29 What does Silicon Florist 2011 look like?
• 21 Avogadro Corp: The 10,000 person Internet behemoth Portland has been waiting for
• 20 Upstart Labs may be just the thing your startup needs
• 20 Meet the Startup: Cloudability makes all of your Cloud spending clear
• 19 Brad Feld wants your take on how to create a great entrepreneurial ecosystem
• 15 Urban Airship snags Second Porch cofounder to captain marketing
• 14 This was three years ago, Portland
• 14 Getting political: Meet the Portland entrepreneurs who endorse Eileen Brady for mayor
• 13 Teacher says every time a company IPOs an angel gets its wings. But sometimes it takes six months.
• 13 TiE Tuesday: Thinking about the Portland Seed Fund? Pitch your idea tonight at the TiE Oregon Incubator
• 13 Meet the Startup: Portland mayoral candidate Eileen Brady
• 12 CONFIRMED: Jive Software IPO at $12 per share, slated for Tuesday, December 13
• 09 What are you doing this weekend? You’re working on your Portland Seed Fund application, right?
• 08 Finding their way to funding: CrowdCompass lands $1.3 million — with Oregon Angel Fund contributing nearly half
• 07 Could QR Codes be the code to crack model and actor head shots?
• 07 Meet the Startup (Lean Edition): Eric Ries talks Lean Startups
• 06 CD Baby and Rumblefish: Two great Portland companies that taste… err sound great together
• 06 Are bloggers members of the media? US District judge in Portland says no… but may have missed something
• 06 Made in Portland: Your one stop resource for PDX built beer, bikes, coffee, and Web startups
• 06 Kansas City is America’s most entrepreneurial city
• 01 MergerTech stands up MergerTech Capital, a $50 million fund for healthcare IT startups
• 01 Finding Oregon … in a time-lapse-y sort of way

November 2011

• 29 FDA approval sweetens the future for SweetSpot Diabetes
• 29 Puppet Labs just landed $8.5 million in funding from Google, Cisco, and VMWare — and a Portland investor
• 29 Meet the Startup: Discussing the Portland startup space with Jones Lang LaSalle
• 23 Turkey Tracker 2011: It will happen… if you just believe
• 22 Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon continues his stand against Internet censorship. And you can join him.
• 22 Meet the Startup: Finding our way with CrowdCompass
• 22 See MyReplayLive live with replays: Beta launch tonight at SoccerPlex
• 21 Get your math on: Inaugural meeting of the Portland Mathematics User Group tonight
• 18 Feel like hacking some Portland municipal data, this weekend? Well boy howdy are you in luck
• 18 Big reveal: See the Alpha release from Startup Weekend Portland alum Tell It In 10 tonight (and grab a free beer or two)
• 18 Procrastinators rejoice! SXSW Accelerator just gave your startup the weekend to finish your application
• 17 How you too can be a media whore: GadgetTrak’s Ken Westin shares his secrets for hacking the press
• 17 Bet they have a sweet CRM for lead management now too: AppFog hires former Salesforce.com exec to head biz dev
• 16 Guess what you haven’t done yet, procrastinator? That’s right. Applied to the SXSW Accelerator for startups
• 16 Portland’s next mayor: A tale of the social network tape
• 16 Oh Portland. You so pretty.
• 16 What startup has 20 people in Portland and $15 million in funding? New Relic. And they’re hiring.
• 16 Mike is your friend: University of Oregon alum and former MySpace CEO starts startup incubator
• 16 Want to move your app to the Cloud? Got five minutes?
• 15 What’s happening at Portland State Business Accelerator? Join them for an open house on Wednesday to find out
• 15 Meet the Startup: Comparing notes with Revisu
• 14 If you’re looking for a new gig, it’s Elemental, dear Watson: 10 open jobs at Portland startup Elemental Technologies
• 14 Build locally, help nationally: SweetSpot helps Veterans Affairs track blood glucose readings remotely
• 14 Oregon Angel Fund invests in local mobile: Meridian lands $1 million in seed funding
• 12 Poo-tee-weet! Portland podcasting purveyor publicizes purchase of prized podcasting platform, Cascadia.fm
• 11 And for our next trick… Urban Airship secures $15.1 million, led by Salesforce and Verizon
• 11 It goes to Eleven: 11/11/11 is Eleven Wireless’ eleventh birthday party—and you’re invited
• 11 Marshall Kirkpatrick isn’t just writing about startups anymore, he’s building one
• 10 Think your YouTube video rivals Mad Men or 30 Rock? Well, your soundtrack can, at least. Thanks to Rumblefish.
• 09 TiE Oregon and Melvin Mark start up a startup incubator in Hillsboro
• 09 Portland startups Urban Airship, ShopIgniter, and AppFog are hiring marketing talent—and that’s a good sign
• 08 Meet the Startup: Meet a whole bunch of Portland Seed Fund startups
• 08 Make your Cloud spending less hazy: Portland’s Cloudability opens public beta
• 08 First, they simplified their office structure. Now, they’ve simplified their name. BankSimple is now Simple.
• 07 Voting by mail? That’s so last century. Oregon upgrades to voting by iPad.
• 02 Portland Seed Fund stages inaugural Demo Day and… [insert horticultural pun here]
• 02 Twitter Stories starts in Portland
• 01 Meet the Startup: Getting the history of Paleo Plan
• 01 REMINDER: Join Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson tonight and you’re guaranteed to be smarter than your lawyer and venture capitalist*

October 2011

• 31 Urban Airship acquires SimpleGeo combining push notifications and geolocation on a nonstop flight
• 31 That’s a complete crock of… well tasty awesomeness: brandlive to power Crock Pot® Live
• 28 Seattle’s Redfin has a growing Portland presence—and $14.8 million in additional funding to help build it
• 26 You use your brain all week. Give a hungry zombie a chance to use it this Saturday at Urban Airship.
• 25 Meet the Startup: Get the behind the scenes on MoPix
• 25 Must see VCs: Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson stop in Portland to talk Venture Deals
• 25 Interested in the real time Web? Don’t miss the Keeping It Realtime Conference, Nov 7 and 8
• 24 Visualize your Twitter stream with Vizify… and then demolish it with an angry bird
• 24 REMINDER: Mobile Portland talks mobile marketing tonight
• 21 REMINDER: Consider the future of healthcare, Saturday at HealthCamp Oregon 2011
• 21 Why Portland is awesome for startups
• 20 Portland’s Perka gets a little Fast Company love
• 19 PDC, SAO, OEN… Yahtzee! Local organizations celebrate Portland startups and entrepreneurs
• 18 Startup Weekend Portland launches 14 companies into the wild
• 18 Meet the Startup: Discovering more details about Geoloqi
• 14 Bend Venture Conference likes the sound of Audioname
• 14 Boot-y call: Oregon Entrepreneurs Network (OEN) lands grant to build startup accelerator “boot camps” statewide
• 13 Playing musical board members: Portland’s Rumblefish taps former Pandora board member
• 12 Your favorite Portland blog is having a meetup. And you’re invited.
• 11 Meet the Startup: Getting acquainted with the Oregon Entrepreneurs Network (OEN)
• 11 NetPayment nets $1.1 million in funding, led by Intuit
• 06 Burning the midnight oil on your startup? Join the club at Startup Weekend Portland
• 04 Meet the Startup: Working out the details on Journey Gym
• 04 Where will you be this weekend? Hopefully at WhereCampPDX
• 03 Starve Ups: Is that a COO in your backpocket or are you just happy to see me?

September 2011

• 29 Bye bye to Beer and Blog founder, Justin Kistner
• 29 PDX Pipeline app: A handful of entertainment… err a pocketful of fun… um well it’s an app packed with tons of local events
• 27 Bambook? More bamboo for you with Grove MacBook backs
• 27 Meet the Startup: Learning a little bit about DailyPath
• 27 Is your customer feedback sweet or stinging? Find out with Hively
• 23 Interested in helping PDX11 build its mentor matching system?
• 21 Sneak peek: BankSimple gives you an inside look at what they’re building
• 20 Keep Portland weird (and smart): Attend the ROFLCon Summit for free
• 20 Like to show up early? LaunchSide will give you early access to all of the betas you can handle
• 20 Meet the Startup: Getting more details from ARM Insight and CardPower
• 15 A crash course in not crashing your startup
• 14 From WordPress curious to WordPress expert, WordCamp Portland has something for every wordsmith
• 13 Legion of Tech got screwed. Let’s help unscrew them.
• 13 Meet the Startup: Connecting with CPUsage
• 13 Rumblefish and Crucial make beautiful music (licensing) together
• 12 OpenSesame unlocks $2 million in funding
• 12 Bizzy tonight? There’s a free beer in it for you
• 07 Skip Newberry, economic advisor to Portland’s Mayor, named new president of the Software Association of Oregon (SAO)
• 06 Meet the Startup: Unwrapping the story behind Wantist
• 05 Clipbook is like Delicious for images

August 2011

• 30 Meet the Startup: Talking about startups and legal services with AterWynne
• 25 AppFog Platform as a Service (PaaS) delivery model now as clear as day
• 24 CPUsage chats with The Next Web
• 24 Looking to share your knowledge about Portland? Look no further than the PortlandWiki
• 24 Banking on Portland: BankSimple consolidates its offices in the Rose City
• 23 Meet the Startup: Galaxy Sailor Productions
• 22 Urban Airship appoints CFO as it crosses the 5 billion push notification mark
• 19 Does your venture need a little more capital? OEN Venture Northwest 2011 may be the answer
• 16 Meet the Startup: Cooking up a different kind of startup with KitchenCru
• 15 PHP Fog gets $8 million and a new name: AppFog
• 12 Bloggers helping bloggers over beers… free beer that is
• 11 BankSimple banks $10 million in additional funding
• 10 Is the search for capital weighing you down? Maybe you need Lighter Capital
• 09 Meet the Startup: Spending some time with Sell Simply
• 08 Four years and seven hours ago… Silicon Florist is four
• 04 Being more critical of the Northwest tech scene: All Things Critical takes off the rose colored glasses
• 03 The dream of OpenID is alive in Portland: Janrain lands $15.5 million in funding
• 02 Meet the Startup: Chatting about startups and accounting with Perkins & Co.
• 01 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for July 2011
• 01 Procrastinators rejoice: Google joins PIE so PIE extends its application deadline and drops the founder math

July 2011

• 31 Let’s take this offline: Anonymous posting bills in southwest Portland
• 29 Rose City ‘Til you Die (RCTID)? Meridian makes sure that death won’t be from the lack of chants, beverages, or facilities
• 29 REMINDER: API Hackday PDX happens Saturday. You should be there.
• 28 Making making mobile apps easier: PhoneGap celebrates PhoneGap Day in Portland
• 28 Filling in some more details on PIE
• 26 Looking for licensed music? Portland’s Rumblefish has an API — and more than 4 million licensed tracks in the wild
• 26 Meet the Startup: Sitting down with RealLead
• 25 Reminder: OpenSesame Lunch 2.0 is Wednesday
• 20 Take a stake in STAKE, a better business magazine for better business
• 20 Who’s snapped Instagram photos of where you’re sitting right now? Get an Instalook
• 19 Want to hack with some of the best API folks in the business? Attend API Hackday PDX
• 19 Portland Seed Fund unveils its inaugural portfolio class
• 19 Meet the Startup: Getting in tight with Hively
• 18 Care to guess who the Portland Seed Fund selected for its first class?
• 18 With Clouds now available on PHP Fog the forecast looks bright
• 18 MeeGo meetup tonight. You should go. Err… I mean Yugo. Or not.
• 13 Mentor? Mentee? Mentor you? Mentor me? Let’s all get mentory, Portland
• 12 Meet the Startup: Spending some time with InvestorInMe
• 06 PIE: From side project to startup
• 05 Meet the Startup: Get ready to meet a whole lot more startups
• 01 Have Lunch with OpenSesame
• 01 Students help local startups ZuluTime and LogicBox through Portland State’s Digital Marketing Strategies Certificate program

June 2011

• 28 Meet the Startup: A conversation with Portland Mayor Sam Adams (Part 2)
• 27 Software Association of Oregon (SAO) seeks new president
• 27 Reminder: Lunch 2.0 with Portland’s Broadband Planners is Wednesday
• 24 Thank you, Portland
• 23 Portland Mayor Sam Adams addresses the beautiful people of Open Source Bridge
• 23 Get two beers for the price of one: Groupon sponsors Beer and Blog Portland
• 23 Pontificating on piracy and protecting intellectual property: If COICA and PROTECT IP are wrong, why not propose what’s right?
• 22 Open Source Bridge happy hour: Mozilla and Emma hosting a get together at the Cleaners
• 21 Meet the Startup: A conversation with Portland Mayor Sam Adams (Part 1)
• 21 Five reasons your startup won’t be getting into that incubator or accelerator
• 20 Wheeling and Dell-ing: Portland startup RNA Networks acquired by Dell
• 17 Things are shaping up around here: ISITE selects location for new Portland headquarters
• 17 Whether you’re interested in Y Combinator or not, startups should watch this Paul Graham interview
• 15 Pitch Club: Skinny guys pitch ’til they’re burger
• 14 Meet the Startup: Hearing from Sheetal Dube of AudioName
• 10 Common sense isn’t common: Ryan Carson of Carsonified shares his startup insights
• 10 Want to be Bolder? There’s free liquid courage at Beer and Blog tonight
• 09 Swinging a big axe: Silicon Lumberjack looks to highlight failures and rot in the Silicon Forest startup scene
• 09 Portland partnering: Webtrends and ShopIgniter team up to offer social analytics for storefronts
• 08 Google smiles on Portland again: Get real-time TriMet data on Google Maps
• 07 Peeking in on a Portland User Group: Portland JavaScript Admirers
• 07 Meet the Startup: Stealing a moment with Ken Westin of GadgetTrak
• 06 Want your startup at lunch with Robert Scoble and Ashton Kutcher?
• 03 Jive talkin’: Tony Zingale, CEO of Jive Software, sits down with CNBC
• 02 Pitch over a (free) pitcher: Portland Seed Fund hosts last minute pitch sessions with TiE Oregon and Beer and Blog Portland
• 02 The Startup Saloon and other stories of PHP Fog from Lucas Carlson
• 01 Turn up the bass: The birth, life, and exit of the BassMasta
• 01 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for May 2011: PDC, tech events, and stock options
• 01 Oh it’s on. Beaverton startup Act-On lands $10 million in funding for cloud-based marketing automation

May 2011

• 31 Portland gets to beta test another Google service first: Google Offers launches in Portland at Floyd’s
• 31 Meet the Startup: Catching up with David Embree of Athletepath
• 26 As hoped, Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon throws another COICA block. This time, it’s a hold on the PROTECT IP bill.
• 25 This whole Facebook thing might just catch on: ShopIgniter secures $8 million in venture funding
• 24 I know what you’ll do this summer: 8 major upcoming tech and geek events in Portland
• 24 Meet the Startup: Chatting with Angela Jackson of the Portland Seed Fund
• 22 Dreading work tomorrow? Maybe it’s time to get a new gig at one of these awesome Portland companies
• 22 Need help understanding stock and options? Here’s a cheat sheet for entrepreneurs and startup employees
• 21 Have Lunch with the City of Portland’s Broadband Planners
• 19 Weather schmeather! Rapture schmapture! BarCamp Portland and CivicApps hacking are this weekend
• 19 Thinking you missed out on the first #140conf in the Pacific Northwest? Think again. We’ve got your #140confNW right here.
• 18 Need a multibeat metronome? There’s an app for that
• 17 Sad irony: Portland Development Commission (PDC) forced to reduce staff including Gerald Baugh, the Software Cluster lead
• 17 Testify! Amazon Web Services evangelist Jeff Barr swings by the Portland AWS users group tonight
• 17 Jive Software is in a (deeper) relationship with Facebook ♥
• 16 TiE Oregon pulls together panel of heavy hitters from Portland mobile scene
• 16 Why a coworking incubator program is good for Portland
• 15 Dear Portland Startups, Would you mind sharing your pretty face (or logo) again?
• 13 Portland Timbers vs Seattle Sounders: Be expecting a guest post on Portland from Geekwire’s John Cook, next week
• 13 FreshBooks visits Portland for Beer and Blog and Books and Bowling
• 11 Keeping it weird: Austin, Texas vs. Portland, Oregon — a startup support beat down
• 11 HomeAway adds a Second Porch … and with it Facebook powered vacation rentals
• 10 You got your journalism in my digital. You got your digital in my journalism. Again. Camp.
• 10 OpenGovWest 2011: Helping our municipalities be more open, transparent, and engaged
• 09 Portland and Social Entrepreneurship: A conversation with Darius Monsef of COLOURlovers and All Hands
• 09 Reminder: Webtrends Lunch 2.0 is Wednesday
• 06 Tablet, tablet, who’ll lead the tablets? Mobspot would like your opinion on the future of tablet computing
• 05 Question-able tactics: Wordspreadz strives to raise the bar for social network conversations
• 04 Get ready to rethink your wallet: db clay wallets are back… and taking inspiration from mobile design
• 03 One million more reasons to love COLOURlovers: $1 million in funding
• 03 Spend a few cycles hacking for good at the PDX Applications for Good Code-a-thon this weekend
• 03 Keep your customer support buzzing with Hively
• 03 Is that Hellboy in your pocket or are you just Buffy to see me? Dark Horse Comics unveils Dark Horse Digital iPhone and iPad apps
• 02 Former DEMOgod, Ontier Pixetell acquired; Brainshark to take over services
• 02 Pete Grillo talks Iterasi, startups, naming, investors, and getting the band back together
• 02 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for April 2011: Badass-ness, Code for a Better World, Portland 100 and more
• 02 You don’t have to go big to succeed: Lifestyle Startups according to Jason Glaspey
• 01 Three techie Portland Kickstarter projects that could use a little love… and one that’s been successfully funded
• 01 Are you a majestic unicorn? 31+ Portland jobs that could be your dream job… even if you’re not a unicorn

April 2011

• 29 Portland startups get a little love: Geoloqi wins at AppNation, PHP Fog wins at Under the Radar
• 29 Should your startup be seeking funding? Is funding an option? Are you even fundable?
• 28 You’d be stupid to ignore this startup and valuation insight from Dave McClure of 500 Startups
• 28 How Portland startups pioneered the Web 2.0 movement… without even knowing it
• 28 Facilitating the Foursquare factor: Janrain partners with Badgeville to offer game mechanics
• 28 Growing like bamboo: Portland’s Grove expands their bamboo case line to iPad 2
• 27 Amazing 3D projection mapping art? Yep, Portland startups do that too
• 27 Find yourself geolocated in Portland for JSConf or NodeConf? Join GeoIQ for some hacking and geogeeking, this Sunday
• 26 Code for a Better World: How Nike went from flirting with the idea of open data to creating a fellowship with Code for America
• 26 Alex Payne discusses BankSimple, Portland, investors, and startup life
• 25 How badass is your Portland neighborhood? Check the Portland Badass-ness Map
• 25 REMINDER: Demolicious + Mobile Portland = Mobile Demolicious, demos of tasty mobile apps, tonight
• 25 Survey says…! SurveyMonkey scoops up Wufoo for $35 million
• 23 Portland blogs BikePortland, Lund Report, and Neighborhood Notes named to Oregonian News Network project
• 23 CIO for the State of Oregon Dugan Petty wins innovation award for Jive Software implementation
• 21 ActiveTrak’s Ken Westin chats with KGW about unencrypted Apple iPhone tracking logs
• 21 New to Portland: Perspective on the Portland Seed Fund launch
• 20 Follow frenzy: 50 interesting Twitter folks (who also happen to be speaking at #140conf NW)
• 20 Want criticism and guidance on your elevator pitch? Pitch Club is Thursday night
• 19 Watch Y Combinator grads CarWoo and Cloudkick and the Portland Seed Fund launch from the comfort of your browser
• 18 Thanks to Innotech and WebVisions for sponsoring Silicon Florist
• 17 How many times can one man save the Internet? Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon is ratcheting up quite a record
• 17 Doing that Sunday job search thing? 25 Portland gigs that could be your next dream job
• 15 Mayor for a day: Join Whiffies and all your mayoral peers Saturday April 16 for Foursquare Day Portland 2011
• 14 Who’s doing the best social media work? SoMe Awards announces finalists
• 14 You’re all Webtastic and visionary, right? Right. So submit your entry for the 2011 Webvisionary Awards
• 14 I want to buy this. At this price. Tell me when that happens. Salemarked does, simply and elegantly
• 13 Oregon Y Combinator companies CarWoo and Cloudkick to help launch Portland Seed Fund
• 11 RDTN.org moves from plotting data to plotting to build devices to measure radiation levels in real time
• 11 Remembering and celebrating Paul @pdxflaneur Bingman, April 17
• 09 Have Lunch with WebTrends, Again
• 07 Miss your chance to wield an axe in a Portland Timbers photo? Play in a Timbers game instead
• 07 Want to see what a startup incubator demo day is like? 500 Startups gives you a seat at the show
• 06 Startup Weekend Portland IV launches 11 new startup ideas
• 05 Portland 100: Taking the next step in solidifying the Portland startup community
• 04 REMINDER: Small Society is buying you lunch on Wednesday. You know, in a Portland Lunch 2.0 kind of way.
• 04 Manic Monday: UX Tweetup, Open Source Bridge volunteer meeting, and Failures, Conjectures & Closure
• 03 In memoriam, Paul @pdxflaneur Bingman
• 01 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for March 2011
• 01 Avoid falling for April Fools’ pranks by… well by falling for Urban Airship’s April Fools’ prank

March 2011

• 31 Portland, the city that hacks: PDX-OSGEO, Japan Crisis Camp, and PDX11 civic hackathons, Friday and Saturday
• 29 Looming deadlines: #140Conf NW speakers and 2011 Social Media “SoMe” Awards
• 28 Hey social media! Turn that frown… err world upside down
• 28 REMINDER: Attend Mobile Portland tonight to discover how mobile serves as a platform for change
• 25 There’s no such thing as bad press: Portland startups featured by Time Magazine, New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Jimmy Fallon
• 24 Simply genius: Portland’s Cohdoo offers erasable, reusable iPhone sketch pads that make wireframing more tactile
• 24 Startup Weekend Portland IV: This time… it’s suburban
• 23 GadgetTrak recognized at International CTIA WIRELESS 2011 Emerging Tech Awards
• 23 Pitch Club: You’re not your khakis… I mean, unless your startup is about khakis
• 22 Android developer? Get ready to be happy. And pushy. Urban Airship streamlines push notifications for Android
• 22 With your iPhone and Meridian, getting lost in Powell’s Books may be a thing of the past
• 22 Picture yourself with funding: GigaPan Systems lands $1 million Angel round
• 21 MetaFilter is awesome and a dozen years old. Find out how that happened.
• 21 Miss out on Darius Monsef’s fireside chat at PIE? Don Park captured it for you
• 20 Turning to the people: RDTN.org provides current radiation readings from people in Japan
• 20 Gary Vaynerchuk returns to Portland to say Thank You
• 17 Help Panic help Japan: 100% of proceeds from today’s Panic sales go to earthquake victims
• 17 Shazam! Voila! and Alakazam! OpenSesame wins OEN Angel Oregon 2011 and 4-Tell walks away with the crowd favorite
• 15 Ripple effect: General Automotive Building headaches for startups cause further effects downstream
• 15 Portland could have the best cloud based startup… if you vote for PHP Fog
• 14 Why I broke up with Portland to build my startup… and why we’re back together
• 11 If Portland is truly going to foster the startup scene, user groups are a critical component
• 10 Finding funding faster: OTBC opens Oregon TechLaunch Boot Camp
• 08 Startup Weekend Portland progeny CPUsage ready to put your machine’s idle time to good use
• 07 Reminder: Emma is Hosting Lunch 2.0 on Wednesday
• 07 Can Portland become the next Yobongo town?
• 04 Still liking Instagram for iPhone photography? Portland’s Gramfeed will make you fall in love all over again
• 04 Small Society Wants to Have You over for Lunch
• 03 Red Hat and Max Ogden team up for Map Hack, an all night geolocation hackathon
• 02 Why is Portland a good town for startups?
• 01 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for February 2011

February 2011

• 28 Come see some Demolicious Portland projects, this Wednesday at Backspace
• 25 Freelance curious? Peat Bakke wants to share his insights on freelancing as a developer
• 24 SnOMG! is only one example of how the public sector can use social media. The first #140conf in the northwest will reveal others.
• 23 Trouble tracking the Thom Yorke meme? No worries. Portland’s Get Down Thom has you covered.
• 23 Is Portland, Oregon, really the de facto hub of open source? Montreal, Quebec, and Raleigh, North Carolina, say no
• 23 Give your mirror and your pets a break. Practice your pitch at Pitch Club instead.
• 21 Reminder: Lunch 2.0 Happy Hour at OTBC is Wednesday
• 21 How do you raise a million dollars in Portland in this economy? These folks will tell you, this Tuesday
• 18 Python and open source advocate Steve Holden wants to help Portland live up to its open source moniker
• 16 Pixelfari: Your Safari Web browser never looked so wonderfully 8-bit chunky
• 16 Searching for a free beer in Portland? Google Hotpot can help you find one at Beer and Blog, this Friday
• 16 Whereas, Portland startups are awesome: Mayor Sam Adams declares Portland Entrepreneurship Week, February 20-27, 2011
• 15 Don’t just demo, Portland. Demolicious. (Your favorite tech demo night is back.)
• 14 Sustainable Valley: Southern Oregon is wired and ready for tech growth
• 11 Urban Airship offers guidance on how to rawk SXSW
• 11 Getting to know the Oregon chapter of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs)
• 10 How important was your K-12 education to your brave new world techie job of today?
• 10 What if you could see through your iPhone like a heads-up display? With MegaReader you can
• 08 Want to sell that CafePress tshirt you just made to your Facebook fans? Talk to ShopIgniter
• 07 From AboutUs to Ziba Design: 18 awesome jobs for the technically inclined
• 06 Rose City ‘Til I Die: Portland Timbers’ Flickr photostream crowdsources PDX’s love of soccer
• 04 Get your Portland startup and tech discussions on: Introducing Silicon Florist forums
• 04 Bending server configuration to your will just got a bunch easier with Puppet Enterprise
• 03 Since there’s no blimp on Sunday, get your fill of dirigibles with Urban Airship on Saturday
• 03 Why an Argentinean serial entrepreneur moved to Portland to run his business
• 02 Portland should be ordering dogfood by the truckload
• 02 Startup America Partnership: Obama administration plans to support entrepreneurs and accelerate startup activity
• 01 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for January 2011: Urban Airship Lunch 2.0, TSAzr, SXSW, and Pitch Club

January 2011

• 31 Emma Hosting Lunch 2.0 March 9
• 28 Without Taplister, your iPhone is only a glorified beer coaster
• 28 Lunch 2.0 Returns to the OTBC for Drinks on February 23
• 27 Craving more Internet connectivity? Don’t miss the Portland Broadband Strategic Plan Kick-Off event, January 28—over broadband even, if you like
• 26 Sprechen Sie open source? Here are two upcoming events where you should be doing that speaking
• 25 Portland Ten thinks bigger, plans expansion to become the United States 100 or Global 1000 or something
• 24 Get a gander at Puppet Labs new space, this Wednesday evening
• 24 Reminder: Lunch 2.0 at Urban Airship is Wednesday
• 21 How cool are you? Nominations for the TechAmerica Oregon TechAwards Cool Product of the Year are now open
• 21 Facebook in Oregon: Sure there’s Prineville, but did you know there’s the OSU Open Source Lab too?
• 20 Haven’t seen any good design lately? Grab your iPad and check DesignScene
• 19 Need a new gig in the new year? AboutUs, Emerge, Emma, EdZapp, Janrain, and OSU OSL are hiring
• 13 Keeping the baggage handlers on the tarmac: TSAzr gives you all the TSA info you need for security checkpoints at every airport
• 13 Pitch Club: People are always asking me if I know venture capitalists
• 13 Got some questions about your pics? Monday might be a good day to Learn Photography Tips
• 12 There’s a whole bunch of Portland magic in that little Amazon Gold Box on your iPhone
• 12 Clicky talks about their business, startups, venture capital, and differences between Portland and the Valley
• 11 Portland funding gets cloudy and foggy: Madrona leads $1.8 million investment in PHP Fog
• 10 Want to stay informed about your flight in midair without wifi? Your iPhone is your WindowSeat
• 07 SXSW curious? Practice your SXSW 2011 Interactive party skills in Portland on January 11
• 05 Small Society, big impact: Portland iPhone agency donates $10,000 to local charities
• 05 Kickstarter loses one Portland connection but gains another. (And it happens to be their most successful project ever.)
• 05 How Dachis Group’s $30 million in funding relates to Portland, Oregon
• 04 Welcome 2011 with Lunch 2.0 at Urban Airship
• 04 Still clinging to 2010: Visualizing Silicon Florist headlines from last year
• 03 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for December 2010

December 2010

• 30 Top 20 Silicon Florist posts for 2010
• 28 Need another addicting game for your iPhone or iPad? Look no further than Portland’s own Ramps
• 15 Urban Airship CEO Scott Kveton sits down with Robert Scoble, chats about push, apps, and future of mobile (Yes, I’m a poet. I know it.)
• 15 eBay hits the “Buy It Now” button on Critical Path, joins Portland mobile development scene
• 15 I want my single sign on. Janrain adds MTV Networks to their customer roster. And money to the coffer.
• 14 Could you use an Angel? Early bird applications for OEN Angel Oregon 2011 close December 15 at 5 PM
• 13 Cyborg anthropology? An interview with Portland’s Amber Case from TEDWomen
• 09 Could your startup use more exposure? Apply for the SXSW Interactive 2011 Accelerator [UPDATED]
• 06 Legion of Tech reaches resolution on embezzlement
• 03 Saving Oregon’s Health System: A prescription for Oregon Governor Elect John Kitzhaber, MD
• 03 Show your appreciation for Beer and Blog Portland’s favorite server, Lexie
• 02 PDC Software Summit: Mayor Sam Adams wants the City of Portland to be known as a “laboratory of innovation”
• 01 In the spirit of the season: 66% of all Silicon Florist revenue in December will go to Oregon Food Bank
• 01 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for November 2010: Why Portland? Kitzhaber, Dudley, Wyden, and Al Gore
• 01 Is that LexisNexis in your Iterasi archives or are you just happy to see me?

November 2010

• 29 How does Portland become more attractive for venture capital investment?
• 24 Turkey Tracker 2010: It’s not a geeky Portland Thanksgiving without streaming video, an Arduino, Twitter, and some geogeeking
• 22 Al Gore may have invented the Information Superhighway, but Oregon Senator Ron Wyden just saved the Internet
• 19 Job? Job? Who’s got the Portland job? Oh. These folks do.
• 18 Calling Oregon entrepreneurs to action: Do-it-yourself healthcare reform
• 18 Fear change? Steer clear of FMYI’s latest project, Change Agents Unite
• 17 Where Portland’s Athletic & Outdoor, Software, and Clean Tech clusters should meet
• 15 Want to report municipal problems in the de facto hub of open source? There’s no better way than the City of Portland Android app
• 12 When one door closes another opens… and here are some of those open doors in Portland
• 11 Sad news: InstantAction now instantly inactive
• 11 Emma? This is the Portland tech community. Portland tech community? Meet Emma… and her free beer
• 11 Experience The Brave New World of Media today… or at least on November 17
• 10 Calling all you digital journalist types! Digital Journalism Social Hour returns November 16
• 10 Want to profit off of streaming media? Attend OEN PubTalk tonight. I mean in person.
• 09 Everything is a product management problem
• 09 Portland’s Grove makes exceptionally awesome iPhone 4 cases out of bamboo—and for a limited time old skateboards
• 08 Like old flicks, cheesy B movies, and classic television? Grab your iPhone or iPad and wander into the Movie Vault
• 08 Bus for the WIN! Head down to Ignite Corvallis and Willamette Innovators Night with wifi and free beer
• 08 Looking for that early stage investment? OTBC offers 11 steps for getting investor ready
• 06 Portland’s Parent Hacks recognized by Babble as Most Useful Mom Blog, #10 of the Top 50 Mom Blogs
• 05 Let’s put Oregon back to work. Or at least Portland. Here are some options.
• 05 Want to have lunch with Imogen Heap today? Elemental Technologies can help. In streaming 1080 HD.
• 04 Love Instagram for iPhone photography? Well, here’s another reason to love it, Portland
• 04 Do you know the importance of a SkyLedger? Awesome Web based bookkeeping and accounting at your fingertips
• 03 Dave Chase: 10 reasons I chose Portland over Seattle and Silicon Valley to locate my startup
• 03 To buckle up, please insert the metal tab… Urban Airship lands $5.4 million and 25,000 square feet of office space
• 02 My Very First App: Night & Day Studios brings the art of Eric Carle to the iPhone
• 02 All fired up to present at Ignite Portland 10? Cool your jets.
• 02 Kitzhaber vs Dudley: The Oregon governor race and the tale of the social media tape
• 01 Max Ogden of CivicApps PDX API fame garners Code for America fellowship
• 01 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for October 2010: Portland Seed Fund, Android, Bacon, and Cheezburger

October 2010

• 29 Portland tech jobs abound. Find yourself a new gig.
• 29 REMINDER: Last chance to respond to last software community survey from the Portland Development Commission
• 28 GovHub: Portland’s open source and open government love child could be destined to help all open government entities
• 28 Crank on Calagator to make sure the Portland tech community stays connected–and other communities stay connected too
• 28 Startup Weekend Portland crams founders, builders, and promoters into a 54-hour entrepreneurial hotbox once again
• 27 Open Affairs TV: It’s like C-SPAN only less boring and more open source-y
• 27 Portland iPhone hacker bat signal: Free pizza, free beer, and a little Janrain iPhone Hackfest tonight
• 27 Need a new gig? Jama Software seems to be jumping
• 26 Portland’s Multnomah County takes a page from the startup playbook, opting for Google Apps over Microsoft Office
• 26 Kryptiq partners with Surescripts to reinvent healthcare and gets some extra cash to boot
• 26 Silicon Florist: Working to make a good thing even better
• 25 WHEREAS Portland loves open source: City of Portland declares Open Source in Government Week
• 25 Real time Web analytics service Clicky updates interface… and gets an earful
• 22 Startup and tech jobs in Portland, Oregon, or it’s Friday and I’m running out of creative headlines
• 22 Wonder Woman Day: Take the day to geek out on comic books instead of tech and support a good cause
• 21 Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. Or Sell Simply where you’re one tweet away from selling. (And buying ain’t that hard either.)
• 21 Portland startups take note: Kleiner Perkins is going after the social Web in a big way
• 21 Building your startup using Amazon Web Services? Would $100,000 in prizes help?
• 20 Annoyed by FarmVille, Mafia Wars, or FrontierVille? Thank Portland’s Puppet Labs for helping configure Zynga’s servers.
• 20 How to build a successful startup in 21 days (Hint: Add bacon)
• 20 Checking in on Portland Ten and its drive to incubate 10 $1 million Portland startups by October 2010
• 19 City of Portland: Calling all Androids! Well, at least these specific models of Android devices.
• 18 Startup School: Zuckerberg on startups, the “Instant startup mix” that is Silicon Valley, and just liking to build things
• 18 Reminder: Lunch 2.0 at City Hall is Wednesday
• 18 Trying to be a great dad? Maybe you’re Father Apprentice material.
• 15 Who’s hiring? ActiveTrak (x3), CardPower, New Relic, Puppet Labs, and Urban Airship
• 15 Mentors, user groups, and seed funding: Portland Development Commission finishes up the startup and tech community conversation
• 14 Portland reddit: Relying on the power of predditors for the latest on all things Portland
• 14 Portland inside: MapBox iPad mapping app has Portland mobile geogeeking under the hood
• 13 BarCamp Portland 4 could use your help
• 13 Care to venture a guess as to who got picked for OEN Venture Northwest 2010? Oh. Fine. Here’s the list then.
• 13 Yes, Portland, you can has Cheezburger… and Teh Itteh Bitteh Book of Kittehs
• 13 Third time’s a charm: Open Source Bridge 3, June 21-24, 2011. This time… it’s personal.
• 12 This is going down on your permanent (federal) record: Iterasi partners with NTIS
• 12 Portland Seed Fund: Talking with fund manager Angela Jackson of Bridge City Ventures
• 11 Doing your civic duty today… or at least your Portland CivicApps duty
• 08 Work it, Portland: ActiveTrak, CardPower, Instrument, Rumblefish, and Urban Airship are all hiring
• 08 Mike Rogoway is kicking my ass… and that’s awesome.
• 07 Spoiler alert: pdx.fm is very likely metamorphosing into cascadia.fm
• 07 Some strings attached: Puppet Labs acquires open source framework Marionette Collective
• 07 Virtual gift cards mean real cash for Portland’s Giftango, in the form of $5 million in funding
• 06 TriMet: Extolling the virtues of open data in the Portland, Oregon, transit system
• 06 Got a burning idea on how to fix government with open source? You’ve got five minutes. Go.
• 05 Interested in presenting at an Ignite? Ignite Corvallis 3 may be your opportunity
• 04 Portland Seed Fund: Y Combinator, it’s not. (Unconstitutional, it may be.)
• 02 Cyborg Sunday: Hacking open government data following CyborgCamp Portland 2010
• 01 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for September 2010: Beers with BankSimple beats OSCON, Urban Airship more popular than free beer

September 2010

• 30 Expose yourself to art: CreativeCares at Beer and Blog and CyborgCamp GPS art show
• 29 Bend Venture Conference: Tech startups ActiveTrak, CPUsage, LogicBox, Manzama, StreamIt, and Web Blox vie for venture funding
• 28 I almost talked to Arrington once and other more valuable tales from the TechCrunch trenches
• 27 Advice on starting a startup: Seattle StartupDay 2010 helps pre-entrepreneurs step up or step out
• 24 Camp camp campity camp: Need to go camping? Well, visit WhereCampPDX or Cre8camp this weekend
• 24 Beer, blogging… what could be more simple? How about BankSimple at Beer and Blog?
• 23 It’s official. OSCON 2011 will be held in Portland, the unofficial hub of open source.
• 23 The City of Portland, CivicApps and Portland Ten to Host Lunch 2.0 October 20
• 23 Ignite Portland 9: How to win at Ignite or Tips and tricks for getting the most out of your Ignite experience
• 22 TextNoMore: It’s like a nicotine patch to help prevent texting while driving
• 22 Digital Trends goes Yahoo!
• 21 Who edits Wikipedia? All kinds of people. Who edits (and produces) videos about who edits Wikipedia? Portland folks
• 21 Can you hear me now? Urban Airship partners with Verizon Wireless to provide push notification services for developers
• 17 Free beer at Beer and Blog courtesy of Deluxe plus some WordCamp Portland folks too
• 16 ActiveTrak GadgetTrak Mobile 3 available off the shelf at more than 2000 independent wireless retailers
• 14 Linus Torvalds—Portland’s adopted open source guru—secures US citizenship
• 14 OurPDX goes on hiatus as management plans for ‘doing it right’
• 12 Reminder: Slate Technologies Lunch 2.0 is Wednesday
• 10 Streaming 3D HD at 1080p? Yeah, Portland’s Elemental Technologies does that
• 08 Want an easy-to-use marketplace for eLearning? It could be as simple as OpenSesame
• 08 WordCamp Portland 2010: Time is running out to see Matt Mullenweg, Mark Jaquith, Jane Wells, and more
• 07 SweetSpot hits the… Oh. Um. Well, it secures seed funding for diabetes data services
• 03 Labor Day weekend means jobs, gigs, and Portland people for hire
• 02 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for August 2010
• 01 First Thursday Portland: Forkfly, Tenfour, and 90210

August 2010

• 31 Portland’s PingGadget purports to take a page from Twitter and a page from Foursquare
• 27 REMINDER: SXSW panel voting ends today; Twitter and Facebook streams return to regularly scheduled programming
• 25 REMINDER: Tonight, free beer, free pizza… Oh and maybe a little something about Intel Atom, your apps, and a little cash
• 25 Not sure where to start? StartupDay 2010 (and this discount) can help you start your startup
• 23 REMINDER: Mobile Portland invites panel of educators to discuss mobile and education tonight
• 19 On open source and government: An accidental manifesto
• 18 Portland Panel Picker: Vote for these SXSW Interactive panel proposals from Portland
• 17 Paperbacking Portland geogeeking: Adam DuVander releases Map Scripting 101
• 16 Reminder: New Relic Lunch 2.0 is Wednesday
• 16 Another Portlander plans to revolutionize banking: Bill DeRouchey joins BankSimple
• 13 Free beer (and job offers) from Wieden + Kennedy at Beer and Blog this week. No word on the Old Spice sample packs.
• 12 Can you find the Portland connection in the Class of Twitter HQ?
• 11 Good [Urban Airship] things come in threes: Push for Android, AirDrop pushes your Android apps, and Glaspey pulls up a chair
• 10 Webtrends Apps: Webtrends picks up WYSIWYG Facebook and iPhone app tool Transpond
• 09 Portland open source, startups, and mobile… oh my! The all time top 30 posts on Silicon Florist (so far)
• 09 Time for big kid pants: Silicon Florist is three years old
• 06 You look like you could use a different job… or maybe a job, period.
• 04 Google Wave may have hit low tide, but Portland’s contribution to the project is still a high watermark
• 03 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for July 2010
• 03 REMINDER: Talk to the Portland Development Commission (PDC) today about the software community and the latest survey results
• 02 If your stuff gets stolen, wouldn’t you rather track all of the culprits from one GadgetTrak dashboard?
• 01 Slate Technologies to Host Lunch 2.0 on September 15

July 2010

• 29 Have you responded to the second PDC software community survey yet? Want to talk about it?
• 28 What’d you get me? Portland-based Giftango signs Amazon, JC Penney, Lowe’s, Nike, and a slew of other big brands for virtual gift cards
• 26 Girl in your shirt, it’s not. But a foosball playing Kentucky boy in front of a bunch of VCs ain’t half bad neither.
• 22 Did you miss Portland Mayor Sam Adams and Tim O’Reilly at the CivicApps awards? Well, here’s what you missed
• 22 Turn any iOS 4 iPhone into a photo booth with Photomaton. Maybe get your Foursquare Photogenic badge, too.
• 21 Jive Software lands an additional $30 million, bringing more Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers money to Portland
• 20 Interested in the latest in video technology? You won’t want to miss Broadercasting tonight
• 20 One of these Portland CivicApps is not like the other. It’s the best of the bunch.
• 19 REMINDER: Like it cloudy? Don’t miss CloudCamp PDX at OSCON tonight
• 19 Puppet Labs proves Portland open source startups can find funding (to the tune of $5 million)
• 16 Bacon at Beer and Blog tonight. Ubuntu and community management flavored Bacon.
• 15 Thanks to Janrain for the Lunch
• 14 Survey, survey, who has the survey? Portland Development Commission (PDC) does. For you. Again.
• 12 Reminder: Lunch 2.0 at Janrain is Wednesday
• 12 WordCamp Portland 2010 announces those folks who are going to be sharing their knowledge on WordPress goodness
• 09 Looking for a few good Portland jobs? Here you go
• 07 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for June 2010
• 06 PhoneGap fills your mobile development knowledge gap with training in Portland (and a discount)
• 03 30 Hour Day: Give and take
• 03 New Relic Will Be Our Lunch 2.0 Host for August
• 01 30 Hour Day: Why it’s been a little quiet around these parts this week

June 2010

• 28 Got iOS 4? Get your virtual guitar on with the Twang iPhone app
• 25 Job searching this weekend? Here are a dozen Portland jobs to add to your list
• 24 Breaking out of your shell: Webtrends 101 offers an incubator space for Portland digital marketing startups
• 24 Kicking ass: Portland’s Small Society and Urban Airship help bring Democratic National Committee iPhone/iPad app to life
• 21 GenJuice: Official Gen Y entrepreneur tour swings by Portland June 23
• 18 Need a job? An intern? A gig? These Portland opportunities might be just the things you’re seeking
• 18 Embracing their inner Portlandness: ReadWriteWeb sponsors Portland Beer and Blog tonight
• 17 Recap of Network Redux, Webtrends Lunch 2.0
• 16 Ideas 4 Oregon: Meyer Memorial Trust thinks you have a million dollar idea for Oregon
• 15 30 Hour Day needs your help
• 15 ThePortlander marks one year of disrupting the Portland news scene
• 14 Reminder: Network Redux, Webtrends Co-Hosting Lunch 2.0 Wednesday
• 11 Second Porch could use a social media marketing person and Elemental has a number of positions open
• 10 memePDX 037: Live from Open Source Bridge
• 09 Want to read this blog post faster? There’s an iPhone/iPad app for that called QuickReader.
• 07 Looking for the largest English-language World Cup soccer blog? Look no further than Portland. Well, and just a bit north.
• 04 Seven potential dream jobs await you on the Silicon Florist job and gig board
• 02 Open Source Bridge Startup Crawl: Meet Facebook, JanRain, Puppet Labs, Urban Airship, Wieden + Kennedy, and Taplister… well and Portland’s beer
• 01 Top ten Silicon Florist posts for May 2010
• 01 Will microfunding work in Portland? It could take The Miracle to find out

May 2010

• 28 Nine opportunities (and then some) to find your Portland dream job
• 27 memePDX 036: Live from WebVisions, Jive moves HQ, Portland software community census, Stumptown Game Machine acquired, Google I/O
• 26 Seesmic CTO Johann Romefort visiting Portland. What should he do while he’s here?
• 24 Need just a bit more room to work? Avatron lets you extend your laptop monitor to your iPad with Air Display
• 24 Town Hall: Discuss the results of the initial Portland Development Commission (PDC) software cluster survey
• 21 REMINDER: Portland Code Camp and SQL Saturday are tomorrow
• 21 Need work? Six Portland jobs and one gig that could put you to work
• 20 And now for something completely different: memePDX Live from WebVisions 2010
• 18 Portland jobs, gigs, and skills for hire: Relaunching the Silicon Florist Job & Gig board
• 18 REMINDER: Take a few seconds to respond to the Portland software community census
• 17 Iron Man? Spider-man? Batman? Most super heroes are side projects. Just like yours.
• 17 OurPDX: Ensemble Portland blog relaunches under new management
• 16 Reminder: Portland Development Commission Lunch 2.0 is Wednesday
• 14 Is your schedule open? Open Source Bridge and OSCON release final schedules for 2010
• 13 memePDX: An old school text edition of the show for your Kindle or something
• 12 WebVisions 2010: All the webby goodness at which you can shake a digital stick… and it could be free for you
• 11 What are the most popular iPhone app icon colors? With Icon Rainbow, now you know
• 10 When I’m writing about Beer and Blog this early in the week, it must be big (Hint: Twice as big)
• 06 memePDX 035: PDC software cluster, Beer and Blog with the Timbers, InnoTech and SoMe, 1 million iPads, TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington moves to Seattle
• 05 JanRain Hosting Lunch 2.0 on July 14
• 05 REMINDER: InnoTech and the SoMe Awards are Thursday. It’s not too late to attend… for free.
• 04 Portland Development Commission (PDC) releases initial results from Software cluster survey
• 04 WordCamp Portland 2010: It’s never to early to secure speakers… or to submit your WordPress talk proposals
• 03 Spring cleaning: Keeping up with all that’s happening around the Silicon Forest startup scene
• 03 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for April 2010

April 2010

• 30 Psst! Hey buddy! Want to hack on a little open municipal data from Portland?
• 29 memePDX 034: WordCamp Portland and Open Source Bridge speakers, MDiTV, Oregon Education gets Googled, and HP acquires Palm
• 28 Healthy content: MDiTV looks to bring video content about your health to the Web
• 28 What did I miss? Recapping Twitter Chirp, Facebook f8, Inside Social Apps, and iPadDevCamp
• 27 Portland Code Camp and SQL Saturday: Two free Portland tech events that taste great together
• 26 Governor of social media: What Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn say about the Oregon 2010 gubernatorial candidates
• 25 Webtrends, Network Redux to Co-Host Lunch 2.0 on June 16
• 23 I know what you did this summer: Filling your calendar with big Portland tech events
• 22 memePDX 033: Portland pitch day, Foursquare Day, CivicApps, Mugasha Halo 3 track, Marshall Kirkpatrick and ReadWriteWeb, iPhone 4, more Foursquare Yahoo! jibber jabber
• 20 Portland, open data, and CivicApps: 101 open datasets for your geeking pleasure
• 20 Master Chief won’t mind: Mugasha scores exclusive on Tritonal bootleg Halo 3 track and you get it for free
• 19 Startup, open source, and/or independent tech folks: Enlighten the City of Portland and Portland Development Commission (PDC) about your world. Please?
• 16 One night only! The fabulous Portland Foursquare Day, Whiffies pies, and Strange Love Live swarm
• 16 Portland blogger extraordinaire Marshall Kirkpatrick promoted to co-editor of leading tech blog ReadWriteWeb
• 15 In Portland, every day is Foursquare day. But April 16? It’s a swarm for the official Portland Foursquare Day.
• 15 memePDX 032: Awards abound, Urban Airship and Interscope, Open Source GIS Unconference, Twitter buys Tweetie and releases ad concept
• 14 Portland pitch day: April 22 pitch True Ventures or Funding Universe CrowdPitch (Better yet, pitch both)
• 14 FAIL tale: Post mortem on the demise of Portland’s SplashCast
• 12 Reward yourself: OEN Tom Holce Entrepreneurship Awards, SoMe Awards, and WebVisions Webvisionary Awards all accepting nominations
• 11 Reminder: WebVisions Lunch 2.0 is Wednesday
• 09 These go to eleven: Urban Airship powers Interscope push notifications, Rock Show brings concert posters to the iPad
• 08 memePDX 031: Jobs in Portland, iPad arrives, Geomena API, Google Buzz, iPhone OS 4.0, and Foursquare
• 08 Geeks aren’t necessarily known for their people skills. Until now. Thanks to Oregon Training Network.
• 06 In Portland, people are primarily positive about the Apple iPad
• 06 Portland Calagator spawns Bend BendCal and Corvallis Corvalligator, asks for your feedback
• 05 What down economy? Five Portland startups looking to hire developers and technical talent
• 02 Barley, hops, and Google Fiber: Beer and Blog Portland offers Google wooing nectar Gigabit IPA tonight
• 02 Blogging, open source, and now mobile: Small Society Apple iPad app furthers Portland’s love affair with WordPress
• 01 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for March 2010
• 01 memePDX 030: #pdxboom, Kickball, TechStars Seattle, Apple iPad, JooJoo, New iPhones, and Android Froyo

March 2010

• 31 Now every Portland block is on EveryBlock
• 30 You can’t play Foursquare without a Kickball (well, you can but it’s not the same)
• 29 Portland Development Commission Hosting Lunch 2.0 May 19
• 25 memePDX 029: Second Porch funding, Urban Airship AirMail, Google Fiber, PRTLND, Google and China, Nexus One, and @ MoMA
• 24 TechStars Seattle: Mentorship could be as close as a train ride for Portland startups
• 23 REMINDER: Open Source Bridge call for proposals closes March 25
• 22 PRTLND: Simply a beautiful way to find Portland Web developers, designers, illustrators, and photographers
• 22 Urban Airship launches AirMail: Your iPhone push notifications just got a lot more interesting
• 20 WebVisions Hosting Lunch 2.0 on April 14
• 18 Second Porch finds a home for a $1 million investment led by Oregon Angel Fund
• 14 From Portland? At SXSW? Head over to the Portland Tech Community Party tonight
• 12 memePDX 028: Special Portland at SXSW episode
• 11 Lots of New Faces at Lunch 2.0
• 10 Creative crossover day: First Portland Lunch 2.0 then dMob dLux tonight at PIE
• 09 ActiveTrak (formerly GadgetTrak) lands first round of funding for thief-nabbing technology
• 08 Reminder: Oregon Film, Beam Development, Hive-FX Lunch 2.0 is Wednesday
• 08 OEN’s Angel Oregon 2010 and the state of startups and capital in Portland from Carolynn Duncan of Portland Ten
• 05 Open Source Bridge opens registration for 2010 event
• 04 memePDX 027: Platial, Portland Lunch 2.0 with Oregon Film, ShopIgniter funding, Webtrends Facebook analytics, and a whole bunch of patents
• 03 Ignite Portland 8: How to win at Ignite or Tips and tricks for getting the most out of your Ignite experience
• 03 We have ignition: Portland’s ShopIgniter secures $3 million in venture capital, snags new CEO from lead investor Madrona
• 02 End of the road: Platial draws its social mapping pursuits to a close
• 02 Here, File File! Here file! Why are you so far away? C’mere file. Such a good file.
• 01 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for February 2010

February 2010

• 25 Going to SXSW? Well then go to Beer and Blog Portland this week to see who else will be down there
• 25 memePDX 026: Jive Software CEO, Dawn Foster joins MeeGo, Open Source Bridge, Yahoo! and Twitter, ngmoco raises $25 million
• 23 That new Tweetmeme follow button everyone is all gaga about? There’s some Portland-based Twitalyzer baked in there
• 23 Dawn Foster chosen to head up community management for MeeGo, the joint Intel and Nokia open source mobile platform
• 22 Oh stewardess! I speak Jive: Tony Zingale replaces Dave Hersh as Jive Software CEO
• 22 Your open source smarts needed in Portland: Open Source Bridge 2010 call for proposals now open
• 18 Another Great Lunch 2.0 at AboutUs
• 18 memePDX 025: 30 hour day 2 in Portland’s living room, ActiveTrak, Google Fiber, Urban Airship, Windows Phone 7 Series, Meego
• 16 Urban Airship rapidly ascends with $1.1 million in funding
• 15 Reminder: Lunch 2.0 Version 3 at AboutUs Wednesday
• 11 memePDX 024: Urban Airship pushes 100 million, [REDACTED], Startup Weekend Portland, City of Portland iPhone app, Google Buzz, Flash and HTML5 debate
• 10 REMINDER: JD Roth of Get Rich Slowly at Portland Pro Bloggers tonight
• 10 A Portland entrepreneur and a Portland startup made Super Bowl ad appearances? Indeed they did.
• 09 City of Portland gets into the iPhone app development game with Citizen Reports
• 09 WordCamp Portland: Aaron Hockley hands off the organizational reins to Morgan Senkal
• 09 Dear Portland startups: You’re a rising star and you’re cool. Why not prove it at the Oregon Technology Awards?
• 08 Startup Weekend Portland: It’s back! (March 5-7, 2010)
• 05 Urban Airship: More than 100 million push notifications served
• 05 Strange Love Live: Watch Christine Kistner now, then watch Nate “@xolotl” Angell tonight
• 05 Want to see your favorite DJs live? Mugasha brings live electronica to you through the magic of livestreaming
• 04 memePDX 023: Open Source Bridge, Portland Mayor Sam Adams on Twitter, Oregon Film Lunch 2.0, Ustream funding, and Facebook
• 03 Shizzow: Side project to startup to side project again
• 03 Black Tonic: The tonic for what ails shared online presentations and Web conferencing
• 02 Open Source Bridge 2010: Dates announced (June 1-4), first volunteer sprint to be held this weekend
• 01 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for January 2010

January 2010

• 31 Oregon Film, Beam Development, Hive-FX to Host Lunch 2.0
• 29 Meet Portland Mayor Sam Adams at Beer and Blog tonight
• 28 REMINDER: Open Source Bridge 2010 town hall meeting tonight at NedSpace Old Town
• 28 memePDX 022: All Apple iPad, all of the time
• 27 Tagalus: 10,000 Twitter hashtags defined and counting
• 26 Earthtechling: All the green gadgety goodness you’ve been seeking—in one place
• 26 Who are you? Google? Facebook? Twitter? JanRain shares industry trends on distributed identities and social media platforms
• 25 REMINDER: Mobile Portland explores augmented reality tonight
• 22 Raise your glass to more acquisitions! Portland’s Unthirsty gets acquired
• 21 Lunch 2.0 at Extensis with Stickers
• 21 memePDX 021: Portland Ten and the PDC, Rogoway on taxes and tech, Open Source Bridge, AboutUs to host Lunch 2.0, Apple tablet, NYT paid content play
• 21 Let’s not make a federal case out of it: Startup Law 101 at Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE) tonight
• 20 Strange Love Live: Gadgets, geegaws, and more stuff from CES with Brian M Westbrook
• 20 Indie Relief: Use your app buying addiction to help Haiti (TODAY ONLY!)
• 19 REMINDER: If you don’t help plan CyborgCamp tonight then the machines win
• 19 Portland Ten off to a running start in 2010 with Portland Development Commission partnership
• 16 AboutUs to Host Another Lunch 2.0 Birthday
• 15 Strange Love Live at 30 hour day: Wherein I do my best Ed McMahon or Andy Richter imitation
• 14 memepdx 020: Jive and Filtrbox, StepChange, AboutUs and Jyte, Beer and Blog, Lunch 2.0, Mercy Corps, and Google
• 13 That’s it. Officially declaring 2010 “The Year of the Acquisition” in Portland. (AboutUs acquires JanRain’s Jyte)
• 13 What entrepreneurs and startups can learn from the whole Conan O’Brien debacle
• 12 Reminder: Lunch 2.0 at Extensis Next Week
• 12 Portland-based StepChange becomes part of a burgeoning social agency
• 11 REMINDER: OEN Angel Oregon 2010 applications are due today
• 08 Portland’s Beer and Blog: Celebrating two years of beer-ing and blogging. But mostly beer-ing.
• 07 Round up: Portland-based Jive Software acquires Boulder-based Filtrbox
• 07 memePDX 019: Cyborg Camp, Nozzl, Bac’n, Seesmic buys Ping.fm, Google Nexus One, 30 hour day again, and begging for reviews
• 06 Joining Strange Love Live Productions and announcing we’ll be doing 30 hour day all over again
• 06 REMINDER: Portland Web Innovators kicks off the year with Demolicious tonight
• 05 Nozzl Media launches a widget that hints at future real-time products
• 05 Bac’n was meant to be consumed
• 04 Twitalyzer 2.0 takes analyzing Twitter—and over analyzing yourself—to a whole new level
• 04 Portland’s rollercoaster year: Recapping the 2009 startup scene and looking forward to 2010
• 04 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for December 2009

December 2009

• 31 memePDX 2009 recap: If you only watch one podcast in 2009, watch this one
• 31 Strange Love Live predictions, prognostications, and postulations: What do you think 2010 holds for the Portland startup scene?
• 30 What does Silicon Florist 2009 look like?
• 24 memePDX 018: Second Porch, Crazy Neighbor, Microsoft, NORAD Santa Tracker, and 30 hour day
• 21 30 hour day: Still can’t quite find the words… but I found some photos
• 18 Watch 30 hour day from here or embed it in your own blog
• 17 memePDX 017: 30 hour day preview show
• 16 Second Porch secures Oregon Angel Fund commitment
• 15 Funding Universe hosts Portland CrowdPitch at NedSpace Old Town, tomorrow
• 14 The Crazy Neighbor: C’mon! You know you’ve got one. Don’t let that craziness go to waste.
• 11 Can’t wait for 30 hour day? Bring a toy to the KGW The Square tweetup tonight or help us pick a tree tomorrow
• 11 Blackbox Republic slides into the online relationship market
• 10 memePDX 016: JanRain, NedSpace, 30 hour day on KGW The Square and TreeUp TweetUp, Lala, Google, and DARPA balloons
• 09 NedSpace partnership with OEN, SAO, and TechAmerica: A glimmer of things to come?
• 08 Need some socializing? Winter Coders’ Social and Portland Silverlight User Group gatherings tonight
• 07 Rounding up the good news: JanRain secures $3.25 million in Series A funding
• 04 Startup Weekend Corvallis will start up tonight. Will you be starting a startup there?
• 03 memePDX 015: Abraham Hyatt joins ReadWriteWeb, e. coli in your Twitter, Crappy Santas, Coders Social, Corvallis Startup Weekend, RIP CrunchPad, Google Phone
• 02 Paleo Plan: Learn how to eat like a caveman… or caveperson and get healthy
• 01 Portland’s Abraham Hyatt joins leading tech blog ReadWriteWeb as production editor
• 01 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for November 2009

November 2009

• 30 Show Santa Claus some respect by highlighting the proliferation of Crappy Santas
• 27 memePDX: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery… or something
• 26 memePDX 014 (Thanksgiving extravaganza): COLOURlovers themeleon, Touch Pets, Google Chromium OS, and talking turkey with Turkey Tracker, Bac’n, and Tofurky
• 25 Wednesday is the new Friday: Special pre-Thanksgiving unofficial Beer and Blog Portland
• 24 Black Friday’s best deals? They’re likely on dealdar
• 23 If Turkey Tracker isn’t the quintessential Portland Thanksgiving activity, I don’t know what is
• 20 This ain’t your father’s Twitter background: COLOURlovers themeleon takes custom theming to a whole new level
• 20 We [Already] Make the Media. Now, we need to organize a nonprofit to help Portland journalism prosper.
• 20 memePDX 013: Ignite Portland 7, Back Fence PDX, Supercomputing 2009, ccSync, Tim O’Reilly, Wikipedia, and Obama has never tweeted
• 19 Stumptown Game Machine releases Touch Pets: Another Portland iPhone app, another runaway hit
• 19 Ignite Portland 7: How to win at Ignite or Tips and tricks for getting the most out of your Ignite experience
• 18 ccSync: Bringing the chatroom and IRC dynamic to SMS with group texting
• 18 Health care geeks flock to Portland for open source CONNECT Code-a-thon
• 17 OPB Think Out Loud: Abraham Hyatt and Michelle Rafter on the rebirth of local journalism
• 16 HulaHub: Social networking gets more cultured and artsy
• 13 JainRain RPX gets more social with Rich Social Publishing
• 12 Matt Haughey, our thoughts are with you [UPDATED]
• 12 memePDX 012: Startup lessons, Microsoft layoffs, New podcasts, Google and more Google, and Bac’n
• 11 Tours: Is that the Portland Art Museum in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
• 10 Instant Action open house at Ground Kontrol tomorrow or Dude. My quarter was up there. I’m next.
• 10 Whiffies and Food Carts Portland featured on MSNBC, Strange Love Live gets a cameo
• 09 MioWorks closes doors but leaves with valuable startup lessons in hand
• 09 In depth discussions about Portland, podcasting, and the death of traditional media? That’s Crazy Talk
• 06 Portland Wiki project: City? Wiki. Wiki? City.
• 05 Navel gazing: Picking apart Greg Huang’s article on Boston, Boulder, and Seattle to find guidance for Portland
• 05 memePDX 011: Venture Mash, Foodgeeks, Ignite Corvallis, Steph is back on The Square, Apple and DROID stuff
• 05 Unfortunately, Microsoft layoffs will affect the Portland startup and open source communities, too
• 04 Denormalize, optimize your datasets, and get relational with OpenSQL Camp
• 04 Nebul.us has a not so nebulous tie to Portland (and I’ve got some invites)
• 03 Can’t wait for Beer and Blog this week? This bus will take you there on Thursday for free. The catch? It’s in Corvallis.
• 03 Get less with Silicon Florist curated content
• 02 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for October 2009
• 02 Foodgeeks gets more social about geeking out over recipes

October 2009

• 30 OEN Venture Northwest 2009: Recapping pitches from Giftango, Elemental, Prolifiq, ShopIgniter, and Second Porch
• 30 Extensis to Host First Lunch 2.0 in the New Year
• 29 It’s a crazy busy Thursday evening in Portland
• 29 memePDX 010: OSCON’s back, Venture Northwest, Cort & Fatboy, Building a better journalist, Blogging is dead, and Whitehouse.gov on Drupal
• 29 Twas the night before Venture Northwest: Giftango finds $1.4 million under the tree
• 28 Socially mobile: Jive releases Social Business Software 4.0, iPhone app, and BlackBerry and smart phone functionality
• 28 Attend Venture Northwest from the comfort of your own desk
• 27 Need a little more detail on that startup? Try VentureMash
• 26 Legion of Tech falls victim to embezzlement
• 26 Finance 101 for Portland startups or would-be startups
• 23 Elemental shows off the goods
• 23 CONFIRMED: OSCON 2010 will definitely be in Portland, Oregon, July 19-23 [UPDATED]
• 22 REMINDER: NedSpace Old Town hosts Oregonians Against Job-Killing Taxes discussion tonight
• 22 memePDX 009: Open Source Bridge, grilling gubernatorial candidates, Willamette Innovators Night, Jive, Windows 7, and Apple magic
• 21 Gary Vaynerchuk chats with Doug Coleman during his Portland stop
• 21 Make PowerPoint even more painful with Portland Presentation Karaoke
• 20 POSSE up! I mean, um, in the Cloud, this Wednesday
• 20 Want to listen to pdx.fm on your iPhone? There isn’t an app for that—by design
• 20 Portland’s Jive Software secures another $12 million in venture capital from Sequoia
• 19 Ignite Portland 7 tosses a couple more logs… err presentations on the fire
• 19 Reminder: Elemental Technologies Lunch 2.0 is Wednesday
• 19 Wouldn’t it be great to see a bunch of startups in the Portland Business Journal 40 under Forty?
• 16 Feeling the urge to gnaw on some unconference sessions? Beaver BarCamp is Saturday
• 15 Open Source Bridge begins planning for 2010 event
• 15 Oregon Startups: What would you ask the next governor of Oregon?
• 15 memePDX 008: Simler, KATU goes hyperlocal, Crush It with @garyvee, Blazers get streamy, BlogWorld, and Food Carts Portland
• 14 Positive changes for Iterasi PositivePress
• 13 Embedding video in WordPress will get easier, thanks to Portland’s Viper007Bond
• 13 Angels in Oregon: The definitive guide to early stage investment opportunities for both startups and potential investors
• 13 When you absolutely, positively need to push millions of iPhone messages in milliseconds: Urban Airship Priority Push
• 12 Taptu times two: Sponsoring Beer and Blog and an iPhone focus group
• 12 For Oregon startups, nothing is certain but death and taxes. Perhaps both in conjunction, given these taxes.
• 09 KATU launches hyperlocal Portland blogs
• 08 memePDX 007: Portland is open, WhereCamp PDX, WordPress.tv, Marshall Kirkpatrick, Google Wave, and boco
• 08 Dig the Drupal? You’ll want to hit DrupalCamp Portland this weekend
• 07 Nothing ventured, nothing gained: 5 Portland tech startups to pitch Venture Northwest crowd
• 07 It’s not project management, it’s FMYI: HBO and other big names laud Portland-based collaboration platform
• 06 From Air Sharing to Zipcar: 40+ iPhone apps developed in the Silicon Forest
• 06 In the strange bedfellows department, Jive hooks up with Microsoft SharePoint
• 05 Portland Web Innovators gets Demolicious again
• 03 boco and a bit of the Boulder, Colorado, startup scene
• 02 End Bloglessness: Help would be Portland bloggers become bloggers
• 01 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for September 2009
• 01 memePDX 006: Igniting Portland and Bend, Portland is open, Small Society’s Starbucks and Zipcar apps, and more

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
• 09 WhereCamp PDX pinpoints a location
• 08 Want to go to LinuxCon for free? Better act fast
• 08 REMINDER: Discuss the PortlandOnline design contest with the City of Portland tonight at City Hall
• 08 One small step forward for buying local, one giant leap backward for hypocrisy
• 06 Oregon’s next governor: Assessing 14 candidates’ online presence and social media savvy
• 05 Weather got you down? Spend some time voting some Portland SXSW panel proposals up (or down)
• 04 John Kitzhaber takes a page from the Obama social media playbook for Oregon gubernatorial bid
• 04 Elemental Technologies to Host Lunch 2.0 in October
• 04 Salem launches a new meetup for the social techie types: SalemTribe
• 04 Geomena: Could this be the Wikipedia of geolocation data?
• 03 memePDX 002: Mobile, Portland on Fire, Apple, and green screen goodness
• 03 Miss the OEN Venture Northwest application deadline? No you didn’t
• 02 REMINDER: Reductive Labs Luke Kanies talks open source and venture capital tonight at Portland Web Innovators
• 02 PortlandOnline design contest redux: City of Portland revises its stance but there’s still more to discuss
• 01 Portland on Fire: Lighting it up again
• 01 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for August 2009
• 01 Dawn Foster joins the Olliance Group to lead new online community practice

August 2009

• 31 Gary Vaynerchuk planning to swing back by Portland on the Crush It! book tour
• 31 WordCamp Portland: WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg to field questions
• 28 Fake Linus Torvalds: It’s like Fake Steve Jobs only open
• 27 memePDX: Portland tech news for those short on time and/or attention
• 27 Portland Ten Lunch 2.0 Features Livepitches and Late Lunch
• 26 OEN Venture Northwest: You’ve got one week left to apply
• 25 Startup curious? Startupday 2009 could help awaken your inner entrepreneur
• 25 Widemile emerges from the cocoon as Webtrends Optimize
• 25 Azplode: Missile Command aficionados rejoice, your iPhone app is here
• 24 Silicon Forest Technology and Financial Forum kicks off tomorrow
• 24 REMINDER: Portland Ten Lunch 2.0 at Nedspace is Wednesday
• 24 Considering creating cross platform mobile apps? Don’t miss PhoneGap at Mobile Portland tonight
• 24 Toshiba gets more connected with Jive Social Business Software
• 22 REMINDER: Like the electronica? Make sure to head to the Mugasha launch party tonight
• 20 Portland Startup Weekend valedictorian Mugasha opens sliced and diced DJ sets to everyone
• 20 Thank you, Aaron Hockley
• 19 Windows users rejoice: Beer and Blog is raffling off a Sprint 4G card… and it’s not compatible with Macs
• 19 PositivePress: Iterasi uses Web archiving technology to track traditional and social media coverage
• 19 Jive flying high: Lufthansa gets on board with social business software
• 18 20 awesome Portland panel proposals in the SXSW Interactive Panel Picker
• 17 Portland Incubator Experiment continues to take form
• 17 SwedeShop: IKEA on the iPhone
• 15 Lunch 2.0, Erm 2.0.1, at eROI
• 14 xkcd on Oregon
• 14 Need a geeky activity this weekend? MacForce Summer Blast could be for you
• 13 SAO survey results: Folks want more small and focused peer events… with beer
• 12 Rails Boxcar hitched to a new company: Tacoma group acquires Planet Argon Ruby on Rails hosting
• 12 WordCamp Portland sells out
• 12 Who’s building BlackBerry apps in the Silicon Forest?
• 10 Waze and means: Helping test drive Waze means a free Whiffies pie for you
• 10 Strange Love Live: Portland, startups, entrepreneurs, venture capital, and the Silicon Florist
• 07 Silicon Florist is two today. What a short strange trip it’s been.
• 06 Lunch 2.0 Ventures East to Slate Technologies
• 06 City of Portland regarding PortlandOnline design contest: Oopie.
• 05 GadgetTrak featured on Portland’s KOIN 6 News
• 05 Webtrends releases Webtrends Analytics 9, initial reviews are ecstatic
• 05 Getting even more creative: Wieden + Kennedy launches Portland Incubator Experiment
• 05 WordCamp Portland: Let the registration begin
• 04 Sad news: SplashCast hits the off button on Social TV
• 04 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for July 2009
• 03 Reminder: Lunch 2.0 at Slate Technologies Wednesday

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
• 09 Oregon Entrepreneur Network Tom Holce Awards finalists feature a couple of Silicon Florist regulars
• 09 Wish more Oregon venture capital firms blogged? OVP grants your wish
• 09 Portland Economic Development Strategy passes, City formally recognizes open source, mobile, coworking, and startup communities
• 08 Looking to implement OpenID? Google recommends JanRain RPX
• 08 If Twitter is just people talking about what they’re eating, then iAte’s real-time local restaurant reviews are sheer genius
• 08 ¿Su CRM habla español? MioWorks does that and more
• 07 Jive announces JiveWorld, its inaugural user group… in San Francisco
• 07 Meeting at City Hall: Open Source, Mobile, Startups and the Portland Economic Development Strategy
• 07 Nedspace II: Former Vidoop space in Old Town keeps its startup flare
• 06 Uniquely Portland Oregon opts for a more businessy kind of PDX tweetup
• 06 Matt Nees named new Software Association of Oregon (SAO) president
• 05 Party on, Wayne… err Cami Kaos! Strange Love Live gets Portland cable access slot
• 03 Looking to beat the heat with your friends this July 4th? Send out a Beer Signal
• 02 Peat Bakke joins OpenID proponent JanRain
• 02 Silicon Florist sucks
• 01 Not using OpenID? Sears and Kmart are more Web 2.0 than you, thanks to JanRain
• 01 Contenture introduces microsubscriptions to help you monetize your blog
• 01 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for June 2009

June 2009

• 30 Strands personal finance paying dividends, ING joins the roster
• 30 They’re in Oregon? 17+ projects that don’t get the Silicon Forest cred they deserve
• 30 eROI expands its offerings with a simple and elegant event registration service
• 29 Open Source Bridge: Looking back, literally
• 29 Elemental Accelerator speeds up video production with NVIDIA, Adobe Creative Suite integration
• 29 Demolicious: Experiencing Portland’s technology of tomorrow, today (or more appropriately, Wednesday)
• 29 Oregon Small Business Boost: July 1 means free business plan software for Oregon startups
• 27 Lunch 2.0 at Slate Technologies
• 26 REMINDER: Find the cofounder of your dreams with OTBC startup speed dating
• 26 iPhone developers rejoice: Urban Airship launches push notification beta
• 25 Care about the Cloud? CloudCamp PDX is for you
• 25 ISITE Design Hosts Lunch 2.0 at McFadden’s
• 25 OurPDX: Celebrating one year of bloggers blogging about Portland at Beer and Blog, Strange Love Live
• 24 Webtrends, Radian6, Salesforce start seeing each other socially
• 24 REMINDER: Have you responded? City of Portland Web audit RFP closes June 25
• 23 Oregon Entrepreneurs Network (OEN) could use your help
• 23 Sad news: OpenSourcery releases some talented employees into the wild
• 23 SAP gets social: Jive to integrate Social Business Software with SAP BI
• 23 Puppet master Reductive Labs garners $2 million Series A—and they’re moving to Portland
• 22 REMINDER: Mobile mapping with Platial at Mobile Portland tonight
• 22 Health Information Technology: Why is it important to Portland?
• 22 Reminder: Lunch 2.0 at ISITE Design Wednesday
• 21 The Oregonian on Apple, iPhone, and the Portland mobile scene
• 19 You’re invited: Open Source Bridge after party, Wil Wheaton, Stephanie Stricklen, and Strange Love Live
• 19 Shopping for an iPhone 3.0 app? See what Small Society has cooked up with Whole Foods Recipes
• 19 Get to geogeeking with OpenStreetMap this weekend
• 19 REMINDER: Identica meetup at Russell Street BBQ today
• 18 Portland Mayor Sam Adams wants Portland to be a “hub for open source”
• 18 Open Source Bridge: A peek at the hacker lounge
• 17 Tap tap: Urban Airship celebrates launch of iPhone OS 3.0 with Tapulous deal
• 16 Still considering Open Source Bridge? Make a day of it for $99
• 16 What if we could get Wil Wheaton to show up for Open Source Bridge?
• 16 Portland CSS guru Chris Coyier launches Digging Into WordPress
• 16 REMINDER: CubeSpace farewell party tonight
• 16 FLIR and GadgetTrak partner to protect spendy infrared cameras
• 15 Ignite Portland 6: Tickets? We don’t need no stinking tickets
• 15 CubeSpace: Resurrection?
• 15 WordCamp Portland 2009 announces initial speakers
• 12 REMINDER (as if you need it): Portland’s Top 100 Twitter types at Beer and Blog today
• 12 Ion Charge: Somewhere between “ridiculously addictive” and “throw your iPhone across the room”
• 11 Iterasi hints at fee-based product
• 11 Love Linux? Linux Plumbers Conference would love to have you speaking
• 10 Greenlight Greater Portland: Sending another Portland startup contingent
• 10 Who killed social media? Ask these folks
• 09 Internet Strategy Forum Summit 2009 announces impressive speakers list
• 09 db clay is looking for an investor
• 09 Social Photo Talk looks to help frame social media for photographers
• 09 Meet the Top 100 Twitter users in Portland at Beer and Blog
• 08 CubeSpace coda
• 08 Portland’s Small Society plays big role in Zipcar iPhone app
• 08 City of Portland wants to hire you to improve PortlandOnline
• 08 Urban Airship: Providing air cover for independent iPhone developers
• 06 Whiffies plays host to gluttony for the good of geeks
• 05 Strange Love Live + Conferences = Tech Love Live
• 04 SplashCast: I’m not dead yet! I’m getting better (focused)!
• 04 Sad news: Oregon Media Insiders blog calling it quits [Updated]
• 04 Ignite Portland and Open Source Bridge lead to impressive OpenConferenceWare
• 03 Open Source Bridge or Marshall Kirkpatrick? Pick one (relax, you can’t go wrong)
• 03 Chris Messina on the history of #hashtags and more with #sll from #wv09
• 02 Startup curious? Pamela Slim coaches your cubicle escape June 26
• 02 Are you listed in the Silicon Florist wiki?
• 02 Toonlet enables creation of Becker Street, the Kindle comic book
• 01 Top 25 Silicon Florist posts for May 2009
• 01 Awesome women in tech: Selena Deckelmann and Audrey Eschright
• 01 Mugasha adds a slew of new sets
• 01 Ignite Portland 6: Who’s got the burning ideas this time?

May 2009

• 31 Reminder: Lunch 2.0 this Thursday at Webtrends
• 30 So it goes: Vidoop is no more
• 29 Strange Love Live: Open Source Bridge’s Selena Deckelmann and Audrey Eschright
• 29 Following the Florist: Consuming content and interacting with Silicon Florist readers
• 28 Grab that coffee! You’re chatting with The Oregonian, DFJ Frontier, Capybara, and Voyager at 9 AM
• 28 Portland Ten II: Your bootstrapping bootcamp awaits
• 28 OSU Open Source Lab gets a big ol’ chunk of bandwidth
• 27 5 best bets for Portland happy hours, cheap cocktails, and discount drafts
• 27 Oregon startups and venture capital: It’s complicated
• 26 Monetize content without ads? Contenture offers easy subscriber micropayments, freemium content
• 26 Save CubeSpace: Rounding up the conversations while we wait for more details [Updated]
• 24 July Lunch 2.0 hosted by Pacific Real Estate Partners
• 24 Lunch 2.0 at Webtrends
• 22 Save CubeSpace
• 21 Portland’s Frenetic Friday: Get your rest because you’re crazy busy tomorrow
• 21 Every tweet counts: Vote for WebVisions Webvisionary People’s Choice Award
• 21 Hey Portland! How’s your whuffie? Don’t know? Tara Hunt may be able to help
• 20 Platial on how social mapping will change the world
• 20 Linus Torvalds slated to speak at inaugural LinuxCon
• 20 REMINDER: Portland Lunch 2.0 hosted by WebVisions today at the Oregon Convention Center
• 19 Portland Mayor Sam Adams talks open source, mobile, coworking, and the startup environment
• 19 Jive executive team solidifies: Ben Kiker steps into Sam Lawrence’s old role
• 18 How would you describe the Portland open source, Web, and mobile startup scene? [Updated]
• 18 REMINDER: Ignite Portland’s burning ideas need your flaming comments
• 17 WSJ: Portland continues to attract talent, despite stumbling economy
• 15 Open Source Bridge announces final schedule
• 14 REMINDER: Your side project or startup effing rocks
• 14 Tell the Software Association of Oregon (SAO) where to go. Please.
• 14 Portland’s JanRain instrumental in latest Google OpenID API rollout
• 14 There’s no such thing as a free… Wait. Shoot. Free WebVisions and a free lunch?
• 13 Procrastination warning: Ignite Portland 6 submission deadline is looming
• 13 Portland’s Sabrix takes on Quicken, E*Trade, and Dow Jones (for the Stevie Awards People’s Choice)
• 12 Unfortunate news: Vidoop reports another layoff [Updated]
• 12 Portland startups: Get a paid intern for free, help some kids at the same time
• 11 WebVisions Lunch 2.0 is Next Week
• 11 Change your workspace to Nedspace by June 1, change someone’s life
• 07 BIG Omaha: The big reason I’m sitting on the Silicon Prairie right now
• 07 Awards night in the Pacific Northwest means nods for GadgetTrak, Jive
• 07 Zapproved vies for Willamette Angel Conference crown as lone Web startup finalist
• 06 BrowserMob’s cloud-based load testing hammers your site without hammering your wallet
• 06 REMINDER: Rumblefish at Portland Web Innovators tonight
• 05 Calling all Silicon Forest startups: Chat with The Oregonian at noon today
• 05 If you want to pay for WebVisions, that’s cool, but you can still get in for free
• 04 LUNARR in retrograde: After several beta products, startup decides to close up shop
• 04 Forecast for Jive Social Business Software? Cloudy (and that’s a good thing)
• 02 The Oregonian features a number of small Portland startups in “Tech Entrepreneurs Defy Recession”
• 01 Movin’ on up: Digital Trends takes up residence in Big Pink
• 01 Silicon Florist Moo cards are here!
• 01 May 1st is the perfect day for a reboot. So welcome to the new Silicon Florist.

April 2009

• 30 I love “Hello. I love you.”
• 30 Tabula Rasa: Slate Technologies opens with a Beer and Blog, followed by BarCamp Portland and Strange Love Live
• 29 Like talking incessantly during your favorite show? SplashCast Social TV is your Holy Grail
• 29 BarCamp Portland: Proposed Adopt a Blogger/Adopt a Journalist session
• 29 REMINDER: Speed pitch VCs and Oregon Treasurer Westlund at Big Idea Bash 2 tonight
• 28 Why I spent $4000 to attend free events last year
• 27 Eat your vegetables—or maybe someone else’s—with Veggie Trader
• 27 Amazon acquires Portland-based Lexcycle makers of iPhone ebook app Stanza
• 27 Windows laptop and netbook owners can rest easier: GadgetTrak launches PC-Trak
• 27 Portland venture capital: Capybara, DFJ Frontier open a Portland office for early stage investments
• 25 Verso-tile: The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) gains a Portland-based Mac fanatic
• 24 Dear Web startups: Buying local isn’t just for food
• 24 Want Twitter search analytics done right? Portland’s Clicky may have nailed it
• 24 SoMe Awards winners: Who walked away with the social media crowns?
• 23 Positive press: The Oregonian points to the potential the startup community holds
• 23 Open source citizens continue to impress with Open Source Bridge conference
• 23 Lunch 2.0 at TechShop Portland, DIY Heaven
• 22 LinuxCon unveils keynote speakers
• 22 To blog or not to blog? Kirkpatrick and Bancroft answer that question (for corporations)
• 21 Survey: OTBC needs your feedback
• 21 Cooking Up A Story partners with SARE
• 20 Open Source Bridge Town Hall this Tuesday: Where we’ve been, where we go from here
• 20 Chatting with InnoTech keynote Rahaf Harfoush about Obama’s use of social media
• 20 SurveyMonkey picks up former Yahoo as new CEO
• 20 COLOURlovers and Webby Awards: Third time’s a charm?
• 20 TechShop Portland Lunch 2.0 is Wednesday
• 18 Portland types journey south for Social Web Foo Camp #swfoo
• 17 SoMe Awards announces social media finalists for its inaugural ceremony
• 16 Toonlet captures your Twitter comedic genius for posterity
• 15 Get your (Twitter) war on* with WebVisions at Beer and Blog Portland
• 15 Intel + Social media types = Interesting tweetup opportunity
• 15 What’s it like to submit an application to the iPhone App Store?
• 14 SoMe Awards slated to recognize social-media-eratti April 23
• 14 Chatting with CreditSuisse about the Oregon Investment Fund, Big Idea Bash
• 14 What are the top 20 Portland blogs?
• 13 Silicon Forest startups: Would you mind sending me your logo?
• 13 Kveton named interim president of the Software Association of Oregon (SAO)
• 13 Open Source Bridge featured on FLOSS Weekly with Leo Laporte
• 12 Our favorite Portland coworking spaces get some love from The Oregonian
• 12 Beyond the Forest: Seattle Lunch 2.0
• 10 Attend WebVisions for free
• 09 Lunch 2.0 with MioWorks, Pronounced Me-Oh
• 09 Burgeoning Bac’n business coerces Kveton into consulting
• 09 Less than 48 hours remain for Open Source Bridge submissions and comments
• 09 Ontier expands executive team with VP of Engineering, donates options to EFNW
• 08 Sequoia RIP Good Times + Jive’s quick response = Belated ink in The New York Times
• 07 Startup stimulus: EasyStreet offers free services for Oregon entrepreneurs
• 07 VidoopCAPTCHA: Avoiding a more craptastic CAPTCHA by changing the game
• 07 Fear of (bookmark) commitment? Try I Need to Read This
• 06 Don’t Forget MioWorks Lunch 2.0 is Wednesday
• 06 Gorge Angel Conference extends deadline for submissions
• 03 What would you ask CreditSuisse about the Oregon Investment Fund?
• 02 Like to use the same username everywhere? FriendsCall.Me can help
• 02 Twitalyzer: Top 100 Twitter types in Portland by influence
• 01 REMINDER: Portland Web Innovators Demolicious is tonight
• 01 So SoMe: Social Media Awards launched to coincide with InnoTech
• 01 Oregon and Portland-area florists, floral arrangements, and flowers

March 2009

• 31 Open Source Bridge gives all of you slackers more time
• 31 Zachary and Keller iPhone agency has a name: Small Society
• 30 Silicon Forest hires: Paydici pockets Stearns, Taptu finds Harris
• 30 Dooce Squared
• 28 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for March 28
• 27 Saludos cerveza… err Greetings Beer and Blog Villamartin
• 26 AboutUs widget: Bringing a little chunk of editable AboutUs goodness to your site
• 26 9 Portland tech events for your spring and summer geeking pleasure
• 26 Startup Now Oregon form is still up? What gives?
• 26 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for March 26
• 25 REMINDER: Oregon startup? Want to be? Interested in $250k funding? Chime in
• 24 Ada Lovelace Day: Celebrating Portland women in technology
• 23 Sweet Sixteen Lunch 2.0 at ISITE Design
• 20 Geek Bat signal: Oregon entrepreneurs need to act now! No, really. I mean right now.
• 19 Thank you
• 19 Shizzow shouts at Twitter
• 19 What I learned at summer camp SXSW, Portland edition
• 18 You may have already won a quarter of a million dollars
• 12 OpenSourcery Lunch 2.0 Recap
• 11 Big day for Open Source Bridge
• 11 #afterhours and #getoffmylawn inspire TweetScope, dynamic pages from Twitter searches
• 11 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for March 11
• 10 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for March 10
• 09 Jive: Goodbye Clearspace, Hello Social Business Software
• 09 SXSW 2009: 60+ Twitter accounts for Portland and Silicon Forest Twitter types
• 09 Opensourcery Lunch 2.0 is Wednesday
• 08 OsoEco shuts down
• 08 Road Trip to Seattle Lunch 2.0
• 07 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for March 7
• 06 Oregon Creative Industries: Your input needed
• 06 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for March 6
• 05 Fly away! Be free! Shizzow launches from Portland nest in preparation for SXSW Interactive
• 05 moneyStrands: Strands gets Mint-y and then some
• 05 Silicon Florist’s link arrangement for March 5
• 04 Diplomatic mission: Portland Lunch 2.0 reps venture north for Seattle Lunch 2.0
• 04 Companies and Communities: Participating without being sleazy
• 04 All hail Ontier, DEMOgod
• 04 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for March 4
• 03 Wayback Machine 2.0: AboutUs and Iterasi partner to give you a view of present and past
• 03 Catching up with Justin Kistner
• 03 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for March 3
• 02 DEMO 09: Ontier Pixetell offers asynchronous online meetings via email
• 01 Bac’n: It’s what’s for lunch, March 2

February 2009

• 28 Y Combinator founder likes Portland’s potential for startups
• 28 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for February 28
• 27 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for February 27
• 26 Open Source Bridge: Calling all open source citizens
• 26 REMINDER: Communit.as launch party, tonight
• 26 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for February 26
• 25 Harvey Mathews leaves Software Association of Oregon (SAO) [UPDATED]
• 25 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for February 25
• 24 GadgetTrak and WeoGeo make OEN Angel Oregon final round
• 24 OTBC: So, you start up here often?
• 24 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for February 24
• 23 Business Leader Northwest: Meet leading Portland blogging types at the blogger pavilion
• 23 REMINDER: Social Media Club PDX gets social again, tonight
• 23 Portland WordPress User Group transitions leadership
• 22 Lunch 2.0 at WebVisions
• 22 What’s MioWorks? Find out at Lunch 2.0
• 21 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for February 21
• 20 Up for some unconferencing this weekend? You’re in luck
• 20 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for February 20
• 19 Aliza Earnshaw: Bye Bye Portland Business Journal, Hello AboutUs
• 19 Ignite Portland 5: Tips and tricks or what to know before you go
• 19 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for February 19
• 18 REMINDER: OSU Open Source Lab and POSSE host Open Source Digital Voting Foundation tonight
• 17 Tagalus: Hashing through Twitter hashtags… and testing OAuth too
• 16 Mugasha selected for SXSW Accelerator
• 16 Portland one of the top 10 places to start a small business. No, the other one. We’re #11.
• 14 Happy 150th Birthday, Oregon! OSU and Flickr got you a gift
• 13 Whatever happened to the daily “Silicon Florist’s links arrangement”?
• 12 Bored? The Portland tech scene might have something for you to do tonight. Maybe.
• 12 AboutUs Lunch 2.0 V2 Recap
• 11 Portland Ten: Incubating 10 $1 million startups by 2010
• 10 Lunch 2.0 at TechShop Portland
• 09 FreeRange acquired by Kansas City’s Handmark
• 09 Celebrate Portland Lunch 2.0′s First Birthday Wednesday at AboutUs
• 05 Twestival: A Portland Tweetup on which lives depend
• 05 No-name iPhone agency starts with two big names: Raven Zachary and James Keller
• 05 Don’t forget your Ig… Nevermind. Ignite Portland 5 sells out in 5 minutes
• 04 REMINDER: All your Ignite Portland 5 tickets are belong to you tomorrow at 10 AM
• 04 iPhorest: New iPhone app launching at TED has Portland connection
• 03 Software Association of Oregon adds familiar faces, Twitter

January 2009

• 30 Ignite Portland 5: And the presenters are…
• 30 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for January 29
• 29 SplashCast pulls plug on free user-generated channels
• 29 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for January 28
• 28 OpenID Foundation: Portland people remain in leadership roles
• 28 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for January 27
• 27 Portland OpenID looking healthy: Vidoop authentication for Microsoft HealthVault
• 27 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for January 26
• 26 Versionista exposes wiki-like views of edits for any site
• 24 Beer and Blog says “Konnichiwa!” to Tokyo and “Hello!” to Houston and Phoenix
• 24 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for January 23
• 23 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for January 22
• 22 Got an open gig? Need a gig? End Joblessness with Beer and Blog and OTBC, this Saturday
• 22 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for January 21
• 21 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for January 20
• 20 WebVisions 2009 gets BoingBoinged! Oh wait, that’s “Boing Boing Ed.” Mark Frauenfelder
• 20 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for January 19
• 19 Somebody get this on the calendar: Calagator’s birthday is today
• 19 OpenID curious? Portland contingent on RWW Live can help
• 19 REMINDER: Portland SXSW Interactive meetup tonight
• 19 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for January 18
• 17 Did someone say bacon? Bacn.com launches as premium bacon shop
• 17 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for January 16
• 16 KGW gets strange: Stephanie Stricklen and Aaron Weiss (@TheSquare) on Strange Love Live, tonight
• 16 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for January 15
• 15 OTBC Lunch 2.0 Recap, Welding for Giggles in the Future?
• 15 REMINDER: Inaugural WordPress Portland User Group tonight at 6 PM
• 15 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for January 14
• 14 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for January 13
• 13 Why just Yay!Monday when you can Yay!Everyday?
• 13 TwitterLocal: It’s back… and now it’s all AIR all the time
• 13 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for January 12
• 12 Venture to the ‘burbs for Lunch 2.0 at OTBC on Wednesday
• 12 Ignite Portland 5: Five minutes of fame or 15 seconds of flame?
• 12 Jive Software hires McCracken as Senior Vice President of Sales, Lanfri joins Board
• 11 Legion of Tech leadership shuffles a bit
• 10 Portland presents at WordCamp Las Vegas
• 10 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for January 09
• 09 Legion of Tech announces Advisory Committee for 2009
• 09 AboutUs secures $5 million in funding—and they could be hiring soon, too
• 09 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for January 08
• 08 Only you can prevent bloglessness
• 08 Portland Web Innovators Demolicious: Everything old is new again (well, okay, two things)
• 08 Well worth the read: The Oregonian’s coverage of the Winter Coders’ Social
• 08 Using your Android phone as a remote for controlling music playback
• 08 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for January 07
• 07 SXSW Interactive 2009: Portland Meetup, January 19
• 07 Masterbacon: More techie bacon love than you can shake a strip of bacon at
• 07 REMINDER: First Portland Web Innovators of 2009 (tonight!) will be Demolicious
• 07 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for January 06
• 06 Concrete5 pours the foundation for another Portland user group
• 06 Angels among us? Only if you apply by January 7
• 06 Portland WordPress User Group: Why save all the love for WordCamp Portland?
• 06 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for January 05
• 05 CitySpeek looks to cram more content into 140 characters
• 05 Get out your RSS wrench: Portland Data Plumbing User Group
• 05 Scoble spends some time with Jive Software CMO Sam Lawrence
• 05 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for January 04

December 2008

• 31 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 30
• 30 Strange Love Live recaps 2008 and looks toward 2009
• 30 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 29
• 24 What’s better than Boxing Day? Strange Love Live on Boxing Day, of course!
• 24 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 23
• 23 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 22
• 19 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 18
• 18 Get all Nostradamus-esque-ish by exercising your powers of Portland prognostication
• 18 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 17
• 17 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 16
• 16 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 15
• 15 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 14
• 13 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 12
• 12 New Legion of Tech board members announced… err tweeted
• 12 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 11
• 11 JanRain RPX: A login buffet of OpenID, Facebook Connect, Google Friend Connect, and MySpaceID
• 11 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 10
• 10 OpenSourcery has open gigs
• 10 SplashCast channels Hulu
• 10 Lunch 2.0 at OpenSourcery
• 10 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 09
• 09 KGW Live @7: Must be a slow news day
• 09 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 08
• 08 iPhone-based Fieldrunners named one of Time’s top 10 video games of 2008
• 08 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 07
• 07 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 06
• 05 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 04
• 04 Beer and Blog & Open Source Bridge: Two great tastes that taste great together
• 04 More sad news: Iterasi layoff
• 04 Portland Web Innovators: Portland Tech 2008 in a word? Community
• 04 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 03
• 03 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 02
• 02 Birds of an OpenID feather: Vidoop, MySpace, and Flock together
• 02 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 01

November 2008

• 29 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for November 28
• 27 Thank you
• 27 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for November 26
• 26 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for November 25
• 25 Another Portland startup closes down
• 25 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for November 24
• 22 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for November 21
• 21 One night only: ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick on Strange Love Live
• 21 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for November 20
• 20 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for November 19
• 19 Iterasi unveils bookmarklet, glimpse into potential for Web archive
• 19 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for November 18
• 18 Shizzow starts shouting in the Bay Area
• 14 Puff! The Geeky Dragon is dead (maybe)
• 13 Ignite Portland 4: Tips and Tricks
• 13 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for November 12
• 12 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for November 11
• 11 How-to Lunch 2.0
• 11 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for November 10
• 10 Thrive PDX: Making the Portland tech scene stronger
• 08 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for November 07
• 07 Lunch 2.0 at AboutUs, Again
• 07 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for November 06
• 06 Lunch 2.0 at Eclipse Foundation: Mission Accomplished
• 06 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for November 05
• 05 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for November 04
• 04 Is that Strands in your pocket or are you…? Oh it’s Strands
• 04 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for November 03
• 03 Lunch 2.0 at the Eclipse Foundation is Wednesday
• 03 Vidoop has to let some folks go

October 2008

• 31 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 31
• 31 Have a Happy Halloween at Beer… err Bat & Blog
• 31 An evening of Color, Final Cut Studio Color, that is
• 30 Open Source Bridge: Get involved in bridging the gap
• 29 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 29
• 28 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 28
• 28 Portland team quintessential to new ReadWriteWeb Jobwire
• 27 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 27
• 24 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 24
• 23 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 23
• 23 Prolifiq gets blue—in a good way—with IBM Bluehouse
• 22 Where I catch up on WhereCamp PDX
• 22 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 22
• 21 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 21
• 20 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 20
• 18 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 18
• 17 Get your text on: Shizzow adds SMS
• 17 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 17
• 16 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 16
• 16 Lunch and Unexpected Careers at the Art Institute
• 15 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 15
• 14 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 14
• 14 Vidoop banks on, well, banks
• 14 [Updated] Sadly Jive Software layoffs confirmed
• 14 GadgetTrak goes mobile
• 13 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 13
• 13 Lunch 2.0 at the Art Institute is Wednesday
• 11 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 11
• 10 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 10
• 09 JanRain helps the other side of the OpenID (and OAuth) equation
• 08 Venture Northwest 2008: AboutUs, Collaborative Software Initiative, Revelation, SplashCast make the cut
• 08 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 08
• 07 GoLife Mobile adapts to changing conditions
• 07 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 07
• 07 More Portland love: Oregon Startup Blog and ReadWriteWeb
• 06 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 06
• 05 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 05
• 03 Six Portland-area mobile app developers and consultants to watch
• 02 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 02
• 02 Obama for iPhone: Portland plays a huge role in mobile app development
• 02 JanRain OpenID could be the key to your health (vault)
• 01 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 01
• 01 Portland Start-up Index for October 2008: Must be autumn because everyone’s falling
• 01 WordCamp Las Vegas recruits WordCamp Portland organizer, Aaron Hockley

September 2008

• 30 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for September 30
• 29 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for September 29
• 29 Time to find that creative spark: Ignite Portland 4 submissions are open
• 29 Like WordPress and OpenID? wp-openid 3.0 to launch at Demolicious
• 29 WordCamp Portland (#wordcampdx) 2008: Ironically, words escape me
• 28 The OTBC Brings Lunch 2.0 to the ‘burbs
• 26 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for September 26
• 25 Changing of the guard: Legion of Tech board elections announced
• 25 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for September 25
• 24 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for September 24
• 23 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for September 23
• 22 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for September 22
• 22 Creating community: Tips from the community master, Dawn Foster
• 21 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for September 21
• 19 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for September 19
• 19 Blog like a pirate: Beer arrrrr Blog in St. Johns
• 19 Calagator documentation sprint this Saturday
• 18 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for September 18
• 18 Cooking up a Story takes us from Farm to School
• 18 Collaborative Software Initiative launches TriSano, an open-source means of tracking disease
• 18 A Cozy Lunch 2.0 at SplashCast
• 17 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for September 17
• 17 80+ WordPress designs from Portland and the Silicon Forest
• 16 Portland startups—and other Silicon Forest startups—defy the Oregon tech slump
• 16 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for September 16
• 16 Strands continues to improve by listening to its users
• 16 Lunch 2.0 at SplashCast in Old Town is Tomorrow
• 16 REMINDER: Sold-out Linux Plumbers Conference on tap
• 16 ProtoShare promises collaborative prototyping for Web designers
• 16 Silicon Florist 04: OEN Pubtalk, Silicon Forest Forum, Air Sharing, Portland Lunch 2.0
• 15 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for September 15
• 15 Air Sharing: Vancouver iPhone app gets more than 700,000 downloads in one week
• 15 Panels: Quintessential Portland entrepreneur Craig Barnes launches another startup
• 14 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for September 14
• 13 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for September 13
• 12 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for September 12
• 12 REMINDER: From Side Project to Startup starts up tonight
• 11 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for September 11
• 11 REMINDER: Silicon Forest Forum tomorrow
• 10 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for September 10
• 10 Experimenting with Silicon Florist reddit: A reddit for the rest of us
• 10 OSCON? Gone
• 10 Silicon Florist Podcast 03: ORBlogs, events, Internet Astronauts, events, Vidoop, events, Iterasi, and more events
• 09 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for September 09
• 08 Got bookmarks on those social bookmarking site thingees? Now, you can import them into Iterasi
• 08 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for September 08
• 08 ORBlogs 2.0: Where we stand
• 07 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for September 07
• 07 Get ready for busy week in the Portland Web and startup scene
• 04 Can ORBlogs be saved? [Update] Yes, it can
• 04 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for September 04
• 04 WebVisions 2009: Pitch your panel, session, or workshop
• 04 Raven Zachary chairs iPhoneLive, a new iPhone conference for O’Reilly
• 04 Digital Trends hires new CFO
• 03 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for September 03
• 03 REMINDER: Portland tech types at Inverge Thursday and Friday
• 03 Vidoop Oregon Trail: You have (not) died of dysentery
• 03 Internet Astronauts launches
• 03 REMINDER: toonlet presents to Portland Web Innovators tonight
• 03 Mapdango mashes Digg, Flickr, FriendFeed, Wikipedia, and more into your maps
• 02 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for September 02
• 02 Portland Start-up Index for September 2008: Did Vidoop get lost on the Oregon Trail?
• 02 Morph Labs transforms into a Portland company
• 02 Galois grabs Martin Wehner, new office
• 01 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for September 01

August 2008

• 31 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 31
• 29 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 29
• 28 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 28
• 27 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 27
• 27 Silicon Forest Forum revs up the geek cred with Tesla founder, social media slot
• 27 How do you get From Side Project to Startup?
• 26 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 26
• 26 Silicon Florist podcast: Gnomedex, Sarah Lacy, and more on Friends of the Florist
• 25 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 25
• 25 Sarah Lacy swings by Portland
• 22 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 22
• 21 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 21
• 21 New Iterasi release (now with Mac support) garners coverage and kudos from TechCrunch
• 20 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 20
• 20 WordCamp Portland: It’s on!
• 19 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 19
• 19 Sunday Sunday Sunday! For one night only! Sarah Lacy swings through Portland
• 19 Waiting for the right gig pays off: Troy Harlan joins Vidoop
• 18 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 18
• 18 Clearspace 2.5: Jive raises the bar
• 18 Portland Start-up Index for August 2008: Metafilter, Digital Trends premiere in top 10
• 18 Former Googler leaves WebTrends searching for a new CEO, finding Alex Yoder
• 18 Raven Zachary’s Apple iPhone obsession now his full-time gig
• 18 Ignite Portland to light up Gnomedex
• 18 Lunch 2.0 at the Eclipse Foundation
• 18 This could be a mistake but… here’s the Silicon Florist podcast (alpha)
• 17 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 17
• 15 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 15
• 14 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 14
• 14 Just a Cozy Lunch with Rick
• 13 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 13
• 13 So, can I buy you lunch today?
• 12 Counting down to Inverge 2008
• 12 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 12
• 11 Fuelly: Saving fuel through social networking
• 11 Shizzow knows Portland, Oregon. Now get to know Shizzow.
• 11 Here’s the Deadliest Catch: Hiring an Agency to Build Your Startup
• 10 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 10
• 08 The Startup’s Journey
• 07 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 07
• 07 Tell OTBC where to go
• 06 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 06
• 05 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 05
• 05 BlogHer ’09 to be held in Portland, Oregon
• 05 Ten things to think about before pursuing funding for your startup
• 04 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 04
• 03 Lunch 2.0 at the Art Institute of Portland
• 03 SplashCast to Host Lunch 2.0, Friendly Ghosts Invited
• 01 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 01
• 01 Vidoop launches Skunk Works 2.0

July 2008

• 31 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for July 31
• 31 Marshall Kirkpatrick promoted to VP at ReadWriteWeb, fiance
• 31 Beyond the Forest: A List Apart Survey for People Who Make Websites 2008
• 30 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for July 30
• 30 Enhance your monitor tan: Summer Coders’ Social
• 30 Jive Software introduces Clearstep, an online community for social and Enterprise 2.0 folks
• 30 Got lunch plans? Why not have “Lunch with a VC” today?
• 29 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for July 29
• 29 No such a thing as free lunch? There will be when Silicon Florist hosts Portland Lunch 2.0
• 28 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for July 28
• 28 Reminder: Mobile Portland on the iPhone App Store
• 28 Versionista: Track changes for any Web page, wiki-highlight style
• 27 A few Portland techie podcasts for your Sunday afternoon or your Monday morning commute
• 26 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for July 26
• 26 Did You Know Seattle Has Lunch 2.0 Too?
• 25 Lunch 2.0 Needs Hosts
• 24 Think Out Loud about open source
• 24 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for July 24
• 24 OSCON 2008: Introducing the Open Web Foundation
• 24 OSCON 2008: Beerforge III
• 23 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for July 23
• 23 Inaugural Cre8camp Portland comes close to cap
• 23 Geek Bat signal: iPhoneDevCamp 2 Portland needs your help
• 23 OSCON: Etelos provides a marketplace for open source apps
• 23 OSCON 2008: Off and running
• 22 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for July 22
• 22 The Beauty of EAUT (Email Address to URL Translation)
• 22 Platial finds Apple iPhone App Store with Nearby
• 21 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for July 21
• 21 Vidoop execs to be profiled in The Oregonian
• 21 OSCON: Concrete5 demo tonight
• 18 OSCON 2008: Sourceforge offers free Open Source tattoos
• 18 WeoGeo outlook cloudy… and that’s a good thing
• 18 OTBC reboots Founders’ Friday
• 18 Psst! Beer and Blog will be about secrets. Past it on.
• 17 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for July 17
• 17 Elemental Technologies sparks $7.1 million investment
• 17 Bot Recap of Lunch 2.0 at souk
• 16 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for July 16
• 16 Portland Start-up Index for July 2008: Clicky and Vidoop debut in top 20
• 16 WordCamp Portland begins drafting plans for September 27
• 15 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for July 15
• 15 Vidoop scoops up Bob Uva
• 15 Charlene Li tweet up Wednesday night at the Governor
• 14 SplashCast lures MySpace exec, goes Hollywood (literally)
• 13 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for July 13
• 11 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for July 11
• 11 Ignite Portland 4: Thanksgiving comes two weeks early
• 11 Lunch 2.0 and OSCON 2008 Like PB and J
• 10 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for July 10
• 10 Mashing Twitter and Identi.ca: Following the conversation
• 10 Vidoop ImageShield + AOL OpenID = 100 million+ potential Vidoop users
• 09 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for July 09
• 09 OSCON 2008: Prepping for Portland, Oregon
• 08 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for July 08
• 08 Gary Vaynerchuk (@garyvee) on making it happen
• 08 Community: The Secret Sauce of a Successful Internet Startup
• 07 Portland Web Innovators’ Demolicious features five new apps
• 03 Slow news week? Not really
• 02 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for July 02
• 02 Acquisition, Lunch 2.0v4 Recap, souk is Next
• 01 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for July 01
• 01 Iterasi gets more social with RSS feeds, widgets, and public pages

June 2008

• 30 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for June 30
• 29 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for June 29
• 28 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for June 28
• 27 Portland Web 2.0 startups get some love from Oregon Business Magazine
• 27 Portland Lunch 2.0 roadmap
• 27 Universal Edit Button: Ward Cunningham, Mark Dilley, and Peter Kaminski
• 27 WordCamp Portland: WordPress geeking slated for Sept 27
• 26 Vidoop Troop #3: Portland by way of Tulsa
• 25 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for June 25
• 25 Internet Strategy Forum Summit: Gaining momentum
• 24 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for June 24
• 24 Fast Wonder Dawn Foster launches consulting practice
• 23 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for June 23
• 23 Our PDX Network: You can’t keep a good team down
• 22 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for June 22
• 21 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for June 21
• 21 ReadWriteWeb, the Adidas of tech blogs, now a Portland blog
• 20 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for June 20
• 20 Email to ID: My OpenID is an email address
• 20 Gary Vaynerchuk named inaugural speaker for Legion of Talk
• 20 Scoble interviews Akshay Dodeja of Portland Startup Weekend’s Mugasha
• 20 Three reasons to attend Beer and Blog: Vidoop, Vidoop, and, well, Vidoop
• 19 Ignite Portland 3: Third time easily as charming as the first two
• 19 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for June 19
• 19 Vidoop troop #2: Portland by way of Tulsa
• 19 Getting wiki with it: Wiki types (AboutUs included) collaborate on universal wiki edit button
• 18 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for June 18
• 18 Ignite Portland 3: Tips and Tricks
• 18 SplashCast makes advertising more immersive, hints of Blade Runner and Minority Report
• 17 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for June 17
• 17 Portland Start-up Index for June 2008: Some movement for the same list
• 16 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for June 16
• 16 COLOURlovers: Portland site could be one of the top 50 on the Web
• 13 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for June 13
• 13 Why Portland? Amy Winkelman says “Hi Vidoop, welcome to Portland!”
• 12 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for June 12
• 12 First Portland Google Friend Connect sighting? Mapdango may be it
• 12 Vidoop Troop #1: Portland by way of Tulsa
• 11 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for June 11
• 10 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for June 10
• 10 Why Portland? After trying LA, a native returns home to the northwest
• 09 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for June 09
• 09 Portland Lunch 2.0 SP4: Code name “Wieden + Kennedy”
• 08 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for June 08
• 06 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for June 06
• 05 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for June 05
• 05 Ignite Portland 3: And the burning ideas are…
• 05 Why Portland? Tim Kadlec provides a view from outside the bubble
• 05 Want some time with Forrester’s Charlene Li? Internet Strategy Forum, Jive give you two opp’s
• 04 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for June 04
• 04 CelleCast dials up Lou Dobbs
• 03 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for June 03
• 03 Greenlight Greater Portland: Startup delegation welcomes your input
• 03 Getting your data in and out of the enterprise: Jive joins Data Portability Project
• 02 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for June 01
• 02 In case you missed it: Portland Twitter types featured in The Oregonian

May 2008

• 31 Why Portland? Intrigo succumbs to serendipity
• 30 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 30
• 30 Portland Lunch 2.0 SP3: Vidoop, hard hats, and bacon-wrapped dates
• 29 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 28
• 29 Strands: Friendlier than FriendFeed (or everyone’s lifestream just got more valuable)
• 28 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 28
• 28 I would love to see you on stage at Ignite Portland 3 and so would everyone else
• 28 Jive Software unveils expansion plans
• 27 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 26
• 27 You’re invited: Strands demoing private beta tomorrow
• 26 Portland Startup Weekend: Five startup projects launched in 54 hours
• 26 WebVisions 2008: Rounding up the posts
• 24 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 24
• 23 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 22
• 23 Portland Startup Weekend now being held at Vidoop offices
• 21 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 21
• 20 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 20
• 20 Portland Startup Weekend: It’s still a “Go!”… are you?
• 19 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 18
• 19 The Portland Internet Effect
• 16 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 16
• 16 Portland Start-up Index for May 2008: Platial debuts at 12, Frappr at 5
• 15 Strands improves its net worth with NetworthIQ acquisition (Now it can be told)
• 14 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 14
• 14 Vidoop secures Messina and Norris
• 13 Apologies
• 13 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 12
• 13 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 12
• 12 CallVerifID: Hi, it’s your OpenID account calling
• 11 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 10
• 09 Platial heightens the experience, unveils new look and new features
• 08 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 08
• 08 TwitterLocal Leader Board adds Top Twitterers by region
• 07 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 07
• 07 Same Portland Lunch 2.0 building, new Portland Lunch 2.0 host, also bacon
• 06 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 07
• 06 Iterasi: Get your own personal Wayback Machine
• 06 OregonLive Reddit now based on latest not greatest
• 05 Interesting gigs on the Silicon Florist Gig board
• 05 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 05
• 05 BarCamp Portland: The Weekend that was
• 03 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 04
• 02 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 02
• 02 BREAKING: Ignite Portland 3 throws out the first spark
• 01 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 02
• 01 What does the Portland tech community look like?

April 2008

• 30 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for April 30
• 30 One OpenID gets you 30+ different Silicon Forest sites
• 30 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for April 30
• 29 Let’s start finding the right VCs for Portland and the Silicon Forest
• 29 YottaByte Group: The future for Oregon tech education
• 29 Strands announces Expensr acquisition, expanded recommending
• 29 GreenRenter: Put your green where your home (or office) is
• 28 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for April 28
• 28 Editorial: Is Oregon Reddit being used to its full potential?
• 28 Use the mobile Web? Cloud Four needs your help
• 26 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for April 27
• 25 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for April 26
• 25 Portland and Boise startups: A lot more in common than I-84
• 24 Interesting gigs on the Silicon Florist Gig board
• 24