Archive
June 2013
- 18 What’s better than chatting about crowdfunding? Chatting with Crowd Supply about crowdfunding over beers at ADX
- 18 Looking for work? Treehouse launches a job board to connect talent with gigs
- 17 Taking it up a notch: Works Electric unveils an urban assault vehicle of an electric scooter
- 14 CONFIRMED: Portland’s AppFog acquired by CenturyLink
- 13 Apple of Apple’s eye: Panic wins an Apple Design Award for Coda 2
- 13 Let’s see that again: Vizify makes your Twitter activity into HTML5-a-licious highlight reel with #FollowMe
- 12 Here we go again: Portland Digital eXperience was a great beta test for what has become TechFestNW
- 12 Urban Airship snaps up former Snapfish exec as Chief Product Officer
- 12 Portland Streetcar gets on board with GlobeSherpa mobile ticketing
- 11 Do you take plastic? Chirpify social commerce now takes credit and debit cards in addition to PayPal
- 11 Making it count: Nike+ Accelerator powered by TechStars launches 10 new Nike FuelBand focused startups
- 07 Now it can be told: Why Meridian’s $26 million all cash exit is incredibly important for the Portland startup scene
- 06 Gaza Sky Geeks: Portland’s Rogue Venture Partners and Mercy Corps collaborate to form Gaza Strip startup accelerator
- 06 Get ready to get Cozy
- 05 Lowering the barrier to entry: Founders Fund allows Portland founders to ante up for Portland Seed Fund II
- 04 Meeting of the startup minds: OEN Entrepreneurial Summit and tradeshow weaves together a rich collection of Oregon entrepreneurs
- 04 Meet the Startup: Getting connected with DongleKong
- 03 Tech4Change: Portland Startup Weekend and Mercy Corps host tech competition to save the world
- 03 A whole new crop: Portland Seed Fund unveils their fourth class of startups at Demo Day
May 2013
- 30 Is that an Alaska Airlines boarding pass in your Passbook or is your iPhone just happy to see me?
- 30 Last day of May will be cloudy: Jeff Barr, Amazon Web Services chief evangelist, stops by Portland on Friday
- 29 Portland startup cribs: Tech Town Portland video showcases offices, employees, and culture of 11 tech companies
- 29 Post graduation celebration: Join Portland Seed Fund class 4 to celebrate a successful Demo Day
- 29 Startup PDX: Challenge reveals first crop of startups selected for Produce Row coworking space
- 28 Portland Lunch 2.0 Beaverton edition: A reminder that OTBC hosts on May 29
- 28 Portland’s Adam DuVander joins SendGrid as Developer Communications Director
- 28 Portland startup accelerators go to 11: TiE Pearl joins the growing number of accelerators around the Rose City
- 28 How did you learn to program?
- 27 REMINDER: Since that barbecue isn’t likely to happen, attend the WordPress 10th Anniversary on Memorial Day
- 24 Hang out with Darya and Kevin Rose in Portland, this Saturday
- 24 Party of the decade: WordPress turns 10 and you’re invited to celebrate with them
- 23 Cover by Cover: Auctioning album cover inspired artwork to put tech in a Portland school
- 22 Want to be illustrious with Adobe Illustrator? Treehouse can help with that
- 21 Playing a different tune: Portland’s Orchestrate lands a $3 million seed round
- 17 Finding their way to Aruba: Portland startup Meridian acquired by Aruba Networks
- 17 Betting on Bitcoin: Gliph uses its anonymous transaction technology to tap into the Bitcoin market
- 16 Fly the Google skies: Urban Airship partners with Alaska Air to showcase Google Wallet API
- 15 Hello Again: Beck and Chris Milk project lands two Webbys with the help of a Portland’s 360Heros
- 13 The other side of the Google Glass: Jeff Hardison from Meridian gets interviewed by Robert Scoble
- 13 Ticket to ride: GlobeSherpa unveils TriMet mobile-phone-based ticketing system
- 13 Portland startup Lucky Sort acquired by Twitter
- 13 Fast Company selects Portland’s Michelle Rowley as one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business 2013
- 10 Taking a dive: Instrument builds an awesome immersive skydiving experience for Google I/O using Google Maps API
- 10 Fear of missing your favorite show? Try tvQ for iOS devices
- 10 Even better aggregation: TigerLogic releases new version of Postano incorporating acquired Storycode technology
- 08 Looking for a little rocket fuel for your startup? Starve Ups Launch Pad could be just what you need
- 08 Tech curious? Know Your City wants to satiate that curiosity with Keep Portland Wired
- 08 Support Portland by raising capital outside of Portland
- 08 Testing… testing… 1, 2, 3: AppThwack lands funding, adds iOS and Web app testing to complement Android offering
- 07 Portland just got a little WordPressier: WordPress shop 10up opens Portland office
- 07 Embrace your inner hacklete: Oregon State Startup Weekend focuses on collegiate athletes
- 06 He’s back… Well sort of: Justin Kistner joins ShopIgniter as Senior Director of Strategy
- 06 Where’s that bus or train? See each TriMet vehicle’s location in real-time
- 06 Looking for some open source awesomeness? Open Source Bridge 2013 could be exactly what you need
- 03 Taking off: Glider launches at TechCrunch Disrupt NY and announces $1 million in funding led by True Ventures
- 02 File under “Meta”: Successful Portland Kickstarter project Wide Body an accessory for a successful Kickstarter project
- 02 Oregon Technology Awards names Cloudability “Startup of the Year”
- 02 Who gets free office space as part of the Startup PDX: Challenge? You decide
- 01 Want to pitch Upstart Labs? You’ve got until May 2 to sign up for the OEN PubTalk Pitch
April 2013
- 30 Put a little bit of Portland on stage in Seattle: Chirpify, Elemental, Urban Airship vie for GeekWire Awards
- 30 Puppies, runners, and widgets win big at Portland Startup Weekend
- 26 Portland a potential place for PivotDesk participants
- 26 REMINDER: Tonight’s Happy Hour is brought to you by TechStars Seattle
- 25 Meet the Startup: Getting the blah blah on Blab
- 23 Fo shizzle: Chirpify adds Snoop Dogg… err Lion and $2 million in Series A
- 22 The week has barely started and you’ve already got Friday happy hour plans with TechStars Seattle
- 19 REMINDER: ProductCamp Portland happens Saturday… and there are still a few spots left
- 18 Portland Seed Fund alum Brandlive walks away with the OEN Angel Oregon win
- 18 The Build is teh awesome: Instrument’s immersive and interactive documentary is something to behold
- 16 REMINDER: Signalfy launch party at Holocene, Wednesday evening *cough* open bar *cough*
- 16 REMINDER: Chirpify hosts Portland Lunch 2.0, tomorrow
- 16 Celebrating the life of Igal @igalko Koshevoy, April 21
- 09 In memoriam, Igal @igalko Koshevoy
- 09 Meet the Startup: Illuminating the Pacific Light Technologies story
- 09 You’re going to need a bigger tree: Treehouse secures $7 million in funding, led by Kaplan Ventures
- 06 Apologies and postmortem for Silicon Florist downtime this morning
- 04 Turn around, bright eyes: Businessweek notes Portland tech scene is going gangbusters
- 03 Interested in talking tech? Consider proposing a talk for Ignite TAO. But hurry, procrastinator pants.
- 03 REMINDER: Mission Demolicious is tonight, Portland
- 03 “Gamify Green for Good” with the Act-On Hackathon this weekend
- 02 Come fly with us: Urban Airship snaps up Nike veteran to head up customer success
March 2013
- 29 Portland loves its WordPress. And now, WordPress loves it right back. With a Janrain partnership.
- 29 That’s the ticket: Mobile ticketing startup GlobeSherpa recognized as TiE Oregon’s 2012 success story
- 28 Get your Early Bird Special: Portland Startup Weekend back in April
- 26 Free is a very good price: Startup PDX: Challenge offers free rent and more to selected startups … but you have to hurry
- 26 REMINDER: Thing Tuesday meets this evening. Because it’s Tuesday.
- 26 Meet the Startup: Getting the profile on Janrain
- 26 Being in beta is so 2012: Vizify opens platform to the public and sweetens the deal with Vizcards
- 25 REMINDER: AppThwack presents at Mobile Portland tonight
- 22 Thinking about speaking at Open Source Bridge? Quit thinking and start proposing… err think AND complete your proposal
- 21 Lights! Camera! Data! Ashland Independent Film Festival hosts hack day featuring Immigrant Nation
- 20 What do you want… a medal? Oh. Well then consider submitting your social media company or project for the SoMe Awards
- 19 Demolicious: It’s back and it promises to be better than ever
- 19 Wanting to step up your front-end game? Modern Web Dev Workshop can help
- 18 On your mark… 10 companies approach the starting line of the Nike+ Accelerator powered by TechStars
- 18 Need a cofounder? Try the CoFoundersLab Portland meetup, March 19
- 13 Have your PIE and eat it too. I mean, if we have pie at Portland Lunch 2.0.
- 11 Portland Twofer: Write the Docs and Node PDX
- 11 There’s more than one way to get into TechStars: Nike+ Accelerator seeks Hackstars and Associates
- 07 Robots invade Portland! Frisbee-flinging machines compete this weekend
- 05 Driver’s seat: Mobile ticketing startup GlobeSherpa lands $1.3 million led by Oregon Angel Fund
- 04 No longer under thumb: Selfpubd Thumb Arcade strives to make indie game developers’ products more prominent
- 04 REMINDER: The Lean Entrepreneur book tour stops by Portland, March 5
- 01 Not exactly the Portland hardware renaissance for which we were hoping
February 2013
- 27 Windows seat: Urban Airship works with Microsoft to ease deployment on Windows 8 Phone using Azure
- 26 You got your in-stream purchases in my… Facebook? Chirpify strikes again
- 26 On fire: ShopIgniter has increased revenue 170% year-over-year
- 25 REMINDER: Google wants to help you improve your mobile Web experience at Mobile Portland
- 21 Wisdom isn’t always about winning: You can’t recreate the same success. But you can avoid the same mistakes.
- 20 Less is more: Parent Hacks launches Minimalist Parenting book and camp
- 19 Dialing for dollars: Celly lands $1.4 million
- 15 Have your cake: Portland video game Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake will be funded on Kickstarter
- 13 Fruits of your labor: PDC, Produce Row “Startup PDX: Challenge” will land a few lucky startups with rent free office space in Portland
- 13 Building something B2B? New startup accelerator 9Mile Labs wants to help
- 12 Benefits of loyalty: Portland’s Perka one of Fast Company’s most innovative for 2013
- 12 It’s like being able to walk into a shop in your PJs: Your BrandLive brings brick and mortar retail experiences to the Web
- 12 Picture this: Josh Friedman signs on as CEO of GigaPan Systems
- 08 Handcrafted startups: Upstart Labs captures the Portland ethos with a hands-on approach to building companies
- 07 I am the Architect: Portland World Information Architecture Day 2013, February 9
- 06 Big Urban Airship announcement gets a little love from KGW
- 06 Cozying up: Instrument and Urban Airship alum Matt King joins Cozy as they open a Portland office
- 06 How high is up? Urban Airship lands another $25 million in funding, led by August Capital
- 05 NTEN alum Holly Ross joins Drupal Association as Executive Director
- 05 Heading to SXSW? Don’t miss Urban Airship’s Mobile Saturday
- 05 New look for Portland’s Digital Trends
- 05 Something to celebrate at Portland Lunch 2.0: New Relic lands $80 million in funding
- 04 Portland’s Visere acquired by Jawbone, putting the Rose City at the center of Quantified Self hardware
- 04 Nothing 2-bit about it: Uncorked Studios adds Anne-Marie Harbour to team
- 04 Is that a FlatLight in your pocket or are you just unhappy to see me?
- 01 What makes the Portland startup scene special? Mat Ellis of Cloudability has a few ideas
January 2013
- 31 Even more rock & roll: CASH Music opens hosted platform for public beta
- 31 Rock & Roll: Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards using Chirpify to sell merch
- 31 Finally! Online restaurant menus that are legible and accessible on mobile: Menuish
- 30 The Barack Obama school of interviewing: How startups can nail their next interaction with the press
- 29 Tenfour: Over and out
- 29 Sixteen of the 25 Launch Stage semi-finalists at OEN Angel Oregon are tech startups
- 28 There are no words: Stan Lee, Bruce Campell, Hulk, Fonzie, and the eye maker from Blade Runner at Portland Comic Con
- 28 I’m not dead yet: Cort and Fatboy return to podcasting with That Whole Thing
- 28 Locally sourced: eROI, Urban Airship alum Dylan Boyd named Managing Director for Nike+ Accelerator, powered by TechStars
- 25 TechStars curious? Come pitch your concept to the Nike+ Accelerator and meet the Portland TechStars crew
- 25 Something new in the cards: Portland Startup Poker 2.0
- 24 The startup revolution will be televised: KATU launches Stumptown Startups to cover Portland startup scene
- 24 More Portland resources for learning to code: Portland Code School and Code Scouts
- 24 The sooner, the better: ChickTech aims to get more high school girls involved in tech
- 23 If you’re not with the things, you’re against the things: Join Thing Tuesday and work with the Internet of Things
- 23 Mozlandia: Seattle-based SEOmoz announces plans for a Portland office
- 23 Pulling the right strings: Puppet Labs lands $30 million investment from VMware
- 22 It’s like it was made for Portland: APIs & IPAs happy hour, January 24
- 18 Seattle field trip: Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure powered by TechStars
- 16 Oldie but a goodie: Playfic brings text-based adventure game development and publishing to the Web
- 15 Meetings: How not to suck at them
- 14 Two of the five most well funded social software startups are Portland companies says Jeremiah Owyang
- 14 Bulking up the 800 lbs gorilla: Social login juggernaut Janrain lands $33 million to accelerate growth
- 11 That’s more like it: Portland startup scene well represented in Portland Business Journal’s Forty under 40
- 10 Leaping into 2013: A recruiter’s thoughts on startup hiring for job-seekers and hiring teams
- 10 What we can learn from design: TresPlace & Design
- 09 “Founders have a shelf life”: ShopIgniter founder Alan Wizemann steps back from day-to-day operations
- 08 When big companies come calling, startups should beware
- 08 It’s never too late to buy gifts: InComm acquires Portland startup Giftango
- 07 See how Portland International Airport (PDX) uses Meridian for managing internal mobile maps
- 07 Air Login: Avatron makes your iOS device a portal to your laptop or desktop
- 04 Get an iPhone or iPod Touch for the holidays? Make your gaming experience that much better with WynCASE
- 04 Apply yourself: Pending deadlines for Portland Seed Fund, OEN Angel Oregon, Nike+ Accelerator, Upstart Labs
- 03 Looking back: Visualizing Silicon Florist headlines from 2012
- 03 Fail blogging: 27 Portland startup topics I should have covered in 2012
December 2012
- 24 Tracking that jolly old elf: Use technology to keep an eye on Santa Claus as he makes his rounds
- 19 Slumbering giant: Janrain is quietly becoming the dominant force in registration management
- 19 Enterprise product development is broken. Portland’s Jama Software is working to fix it.
- 19 Brilliant! Urban Airship floats over the pond to open London office
- 18 Visualizing Vizify: “Your Year on Twitter” lands Portland startup on TV with Steph Stricklen and KGW Live at 7
- 18 Making it a happier holiday season for makers: Chirpify powers transaction-fee-free Etsy sales via Instagram and Twitter
- 18 Portland gets even more Drupal-icious: Acquia expands Portland presence
- 18 [Insert overplayed "gift" analogy here]: Upstart Labs opens startup applications via AngelList
- 18 How I became a better entrepreneur by failing my first meeting with a VC
- 17 Making stuff for the makers: Funded Portland startup Tindie aims to be the Etsy for hardware hackers
- 13 Firsthand account: Portland startup TresPlace wants to bring you along on their startup journey
- 12 Webtrends Streams: Old analytics dog comes forth with some interesting new tricks
- 11 You got your Vizify in my Twitter. You got Your Year on Twitter in my Vizify.
- 10 Portland Lunch 2.0: CrowdCompass finds a crowd of Portland startup types
- 10 Just hack it: Nike launches Nike+ Accelerator powered by TechStars in Portland. And 7 reasons that’s awesome.
- 06 Oregon FIRST Robotics: Nurturing the tech workforce by making geeks cool
- 05 Unwrapping the presents early: Portland Seed Fund launches six new startups, Winter 2012
- 05 Video encoding just got a heck of a lot easier thanks to CPUsage and GridVid.Me
- 05 Portland startups at an “Early Stage”: Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, it ain’t (and that’s awesome)
- 04 ‘Tis the season: Celebrate Portland Seed Fund Demo Day whether you attended Demo Day or not
- 04 Portland-based GetListed gets acquired by Seattle-based SEOmoz
- 04 Portland’s Urban Airship picks up another company, Tello, and adds Palo Alto to their list of offices
November 2012
- 30 Starting up another Portland resource for finding startup cofounders: CoFoundersLab
- 29 Portland Lunch 2.0: Let CrowdCompass help you find a free lunch
- 27 What’s NEXT? Portland Startup Weekend adopts NEXT program
- 27 Hacking discoverability: Selfpubd inks deal with Taptica to promote indie mobile apps
- 26 Portland Startup Weekend launches 13 companies and sends one into Global Startup Battle
- 16 Meet the Startup: Getting on board with GlobeSherpa
- 13 I am Oregon: Meyer Memorial Trust encourages you to nominate inspiring Oregonians
- 13 Your vote could help CPUsage win $100,000 worth of agency services
- 13 Better than the back of a napkin: Site 9 lands half-a-million dollars to accelerate ProtoShare
- 13 Thinking about lunch? Don’t forget Jama Software is buying on Wednesday as Portland Lunch 2.0 returns
- 12 REMINDER: Mobile Portland heads to Ziba for a chat with Amazon about the Appstore
- 08 Finding that perfect holiday gift just got easier, thanks to Macy’s and the new Meridian SDKs
- 08 OpenHack: Actually surprised I’m getting to introduce this to Portland hackers
- 07 Carefully courting a startup cofounder? Cofounder curious? CoFoundersLab may be just what you need
- 07 Meet the Startup: Getting the full picture on Favery
- 07 Newly elected Portland mayor Charlie Hales on the Portland startup scene
- 06 Favery makes pinning more productive
- 06 Are you going to go Tiny or go Riot? The future of your Portland startup awaits, this weekend
- 05 Your startup is looking a bit slow there, tiger. Why not try a little SXSW Accelerator?
- 05 Typical hackathons a little too social for your blood? Embrace being an introvert and Hackalone
- 02 10+ Portland startups you should be following on Github [Updated]
- 01 Field trip: Portland’s Glider (formerly Superbly) and the rest of TechStars Seattle Demo Day 2012
- 01 Get your geek on this weekend: CyborgCamp Portland and CodeDay Portland
- 01 Mistakes were made: Tiny Startup Camp now makes a tinier dent in your wallet
October 2012
- 31 It’s Halloween. What better day to bring Portland Lunch 2.0 and Portland on Fire back from the dead?
- 30 Have your cake and eat it too: 20% of Wired’s “San Francisco tech companies you wished you worked for” have Portland offices
- 30 Rabble rousing: Cubox acquired by New Context lean software consultancy
- 30 You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than YouTube comments. But Comment Haiku changes that.
- 30 Take your Halloween costume and iPhone for a spin. And win.
- 30 Meet the Startup: Getting up to speed with PivotPlanet
- 29 How is Portland poised to lead design-driven startups?
- 26 Going out to eat this weekend? Save yourself the runaround with TablesUp
- 24 From “looking good” to “looking even better”: Vizify pretties up your online profile even more
- 24 How to build a startup community: Brad Feld on the “Boulder Thesis”
- 23 Portland’s slice of Global Entrepreneurship Week is stacking up to be amazing
- 23 Meet the Startup: Dialing up Celly
- 23 A picture is worth a thousand words, but an Instagram photo is worth a thousand bucks
- 22 REMINDER: Windows curious? Get the lowdown on Windows 8 at Mobile Portland
- 18 Insightful comments on federal entrepreneurial policy from Jon Stewart on the Daily Show
- 17 What, exactly, is an entrepreneur? Well, it takes one to know one
- 16 Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day with Geoloqi’s views on the Portland startup scene
- 16 Bigger isn’t always better: Tiny Startup Camp, November 10-11
- 16 In Portland? CTO? Meet your peers for beers. Or another beverage of your choice.
- 15 Geoloqi acquired by Esri
- 11 Urban Airship and Cloudability investor Brad Feld talks startups communities, entrepreneurs, and Portland
- 10 Mobile app development in Oregon accounts for half a billion dollars in economic impact
- 10 It’s like an olive branch of awesomeness: Startup Weekend Eugene offers Portlanders a steep discount
- 10 Meet the Startup: Bellying up to Taplister
- 08 So that happened: Six new startups debut at PIE Demo Day Fall 2012
- 04 REMINDER: PIE Demo Day is Friday — and, yes, it will be livestreamed
- 03 If you love Elemental Technologies, lend your vote to the Streaming Media Readers’ Choice awards
- 02 Thinking about grabbing a cold one? New and improved Taplister can help
- 02 That’s the ticket: GlobeSherpa lands TriMet mobile ticketing business
- 02 Where are they now? Urban Airship unveils location aware push notifications
September 2012
- 28 I’d buy that for a dollar: VendScreen launches flagship product, a wireless Android device for vending machines
- 26 Taking Portland pitching to the next level: House of Genius
- 26 Talking Girl Talk: Andy Baio and Gregg Gillis continue their conversation on the future of music (Part 2)
- 25 Startup Weekend trifecta: Portland Startup Weekend expands to host PSU and Eugene events
- 25 PIE Demo Day: Grab a seat and get ready for another slice of PIE, October 5
- 24 REMINDER: Mobile Portland shares lessons learned from a re-startup mobile company, tonight
- 21 One more thing, PDXconf… well two actually: Andy Baio chats with Girl Talk (Part 1)
- 21 Startup Communities makes another Boulder-Portland connection
- 20 Portland tech startups receive recognition at OEN Tom Holce Entrepreneurship Awards
- 19 Everything old is new again: Next generation of Portland coworking spaces begins to take shape
- 19 Another Upstart: Celly expands beyond Occupy Movement to improve student-teacher communication
- 16 There was a lot of love in the room: XOXO embraces maker culture as attendees embrace XOXO
- 16 Sequoia Capital: Apple, Oracle, Cisco… and Jive Software
- 16 It goes to eleven: The eleventeenth Ignite Portland takes place, this week
- 14 Game on! Jane McGonigal swings by Portland to talk about gaming and education
- 11 Portland Seed Fund III: This time, it’s digital
- 08 Portland’s creative communities: Digital, tech, startup, and music in 20 seconds or less
- 05 Get in on the fun of the Portland Digital eXperience… for free
- 05 You down with UDID? Yeah, now you know me… my location and app activities
August 2012
- 31 Just what the doctor ordered: Electronic healthcare startup Kryptiq gets snapped up by Surescripts
- 29 Portland mobile developers: The Square is looking for a few good apps
- 29 Get in on these mix and match magical electronic musical instruments
- 28 Nodester enshrouded in Fog: Portland’s AppFog acquires open source Node.js platform
- 28 It’s called a community for a reason
- 26 Keeping It Realtime Conference is keeping it in Portland, October 23-24
- 25 Put your Portland startup on the map: Sign up to be part of the PDX Startup Crawl, September 6
- 25 Running with responsive Web design: Athletepath at Mobile Portland, this Monday
- 25 Like music and tech? Well for that, you’ll need Bandwidth
- 23 September just got even more awesome: Spotify, MapQuest, and Twilio sponsoring MFNW+PDX Music Hack Day
- 21 Startup Curious? Join our friends at GeekWire for Seattle 2.0 Startup Day, September 22
- 19 REMINDER: Dave McClure says shit… well, every day. But on Monday he’ll be saying it in Portland
- 16 Considering WordCamp Portland? Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress, would love to see you there
- 15 Portland mayoral candidates debate the Portland startup scene. Sort of.
- 14 Meet the Startup: Vizify shares their vision
- 14 REMINDER: Portland Quantified Self show and tell features Vizify and Geoloqi
- 14 Experience Portland: Some of the thinking behind MusicFestNW’s new tech conference, PDX
- 12 Another day, another awesome Portland Kickstarter project funded: GameDock for iOS devices
- 12 Livestream: Potential Portland mayors chat about the technology and startup scene, Monday morning
- 09 Running the Hood to Coast Relay? Athletepath will be running alongside you and your team
- 09 Deperately seeking cofounder or desperately looking for an excuse to move to Portland? FounderDating can help… if you hurry
- 07 Half a decade later: Thank you for putting up with bad grammar, ridiculously long headlines, haphazard posting schedules, and an all too rosey view of the Portland startup scene
- 06 Make cool stuff? Show it off at Portland Mini Maker Faire
- 06 Portland’s inventory: Inventors of digital image processing, the wiki, and Linux all call the Rose City home
- 05 You, only better looking: Vizify and Path.to chat about reinventing your job search
- 02 From the mouths of startup founders: Geoff Lewis of Founders Fund and Scott Kveton of Urban Airship share their knowledge
July 2012
- 31 Up in the air: Clent Richardson named to FlightStats board
- 30 The Portland Sessions: Capturing amazing musicians playing sets in Portland
- 27 Lookin’ good: Vizify reinvents the way you see yourself on the Web
- 24 How do you wow your customers? Learn from some of the best
- 24 Everything old is new again: Shwood shoots latest promo using stereoscopy
- 22 REMINDER: Mobile Portland focuses on building mobile apps for emerging technology regions, Monday night
- 19 What does the Eugene startup scene look like? Silicon Shire shows you
- 17 Our first sequel: Meet the Startup chats with Chirpify
- 17 Up on the roof and up in the Clouds: Cloudability hosts talk on the future of the Cloud
- 16 REMINDER: API Hackday PDX 2, this Tuesday at Urban Airship
- 13 Cloudability’s day in the sun: Portland company lands $8.7 million in funding
- 11 The Force is strong with this one: Portland’s Sprintly lands a who’s who Jedi Council of investors and advisors
- 11 Meta overload: Fred Armisen of Portlandia talks Portland with David Letterman
- 10 Joining Geeks on a Train? Mark Silva explains why you should stay for the GROW Conference
- 10 Mapping a better future: Ecotrust opens Madrona decision tool to the public
- 10 New partnerships have Urban Airship getting even more gamey
- 09 What’s the big idea? IdeaMensch swings by Portland as part of nationwide summer road trip
- 06 What are you doing this weekend? That’s right. Completing your Portland Seed Fund application.
- 05 Some folks set off fireworks on July 4th. Apple releases a bunch of exploding iPhone apps, instead. Including PDX Bus.
- 03 Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors
- 03 Pitching over pitchers: Portland Seed Fund Pitch Happy Hour, July 5
- 03 Meet the Startup: In the hot seat with Kelly’s Jelly
- 02 Find a corsage and a breath mint: Portland FounderDating applications due August 9
June 2012
- 29 Seattle field trip: Microsoft Accelerator for Kinect Demo Day powered by TechStars
- 27 We’ve all heard about Portland’s amazing restaurants, but what’s the best thing on the menu? Menupolitan knows
- 26 Search industry titans converging in Portland for SIGIR Information Retrieval Research Conference
- 25 Tonight: Get up and practice pitching your concept or sit back and learn how to pitch your app
- 25 Open Source Bridge 2012 opens Tuesday
- 21 Geeks on a Train: Join Dave McClure and your peers from Portland and Seattle for a trip to Vancouver (No, the other one)
- 20 Code monkeys rejoice: Geek music icon Jonathan Coulton swings by Portland
- 19 What’s it like to go through a Startup Weekend? Meet the Startup documents Portland Startup Weekend
- 19 Charting a new direction: CrowdCompass acquired for $10 million
- 18 I have no words, but you might. Submit your talk for WordCamp Portland
- 15 Portland’s Armchair Mayor: Scraping the bottom of the barrel at Neighborhood Notes
- 14 What are you doing for lunch tomorrow? Want to hang out with me and Skip Newberry? I’ll buy.
- 13 Time for startups to TiE one on: TiE Oregon PitchFest, this Thursday, June 14
- 12 Meet the Startup: Portland Seed Fund Demo Day, Spring 2012
- 12 Need help filtering Spotify music? Try the Intel Sifter to get a little help from your friends
- 08 Accelerator application trifecta: TechStars Seattle, Portland Seed Fund, and PIE currently accepting submissions
- 07 Tweaking the recipe: Top 3 most exciting changes for the next class of PIE
- 05 Catch the Portland Seed Fund companies before they sprout at the demo day after party
- 05 Feel like investors are speaking a foreign language? Nitin Khanna helps translate it into English, baby!
- 05 What to wear: Three Portland startups that are rethinking which clothes we buy online
- 05 SkateBack: MapleXO + Grove are back … or maybe more appropriately, are backING your iPhone
- 04 Public relations 101 for startups … from the entrepreneur’s perspective
- 01 June 2 is crazy. Crazy awesome that is: Hack for Portland Schools, Portland Code Camp, and VibrantData PDX Hackathon
May 2012
- 31 I like turtles: Portland’s quintessential contribution to the world of memes turns five
- 31 Can you quantify that for me? How about with me? Join the Vibrant Data Hack, this weekend
- 31 Going camping this weekend? Code Camp gathers folks across languages, databases, and frameworks
- 30 Good code can make everything better: Hack for Portland Schools
- 29 Last call: Beer and Blog Portland quaffs its last pint
- 25 Like to code? Like to talk about code? Submit a proposal to speak at Portland Code Camp 2012
- 24 Hugs and kisses and lots of love: XOXO festival sells out pretty much immediately
- 23 Portland’s XOXO festival hopes to feel the Kickstarter love
- 23 Digging into diversity: Willamette Week takes a look at the number of women in the tech startup scene
- 22 Make mine Titanium: Geoloqi powers battery efficient geolocation for Appcelerator Titanium
- 21 REMINDER: Mobile Portland discusses what happens when the robots win
- 17 Bend startup accelerator VentureBox graduates first class
- 17 Send me an Angel: Oregon Angel Fund applications close May 22
- 15 Meet the Startup: Portland’s next mayor
- 15 Marcus Welby & Steve Jobs: Tips for Gov. Kitzhaber to save billions on healthcare
- 14 REMINDER: Join the WebVisions crew for the Hackathon for Social Good, Tuesday
- 11 Portland startups gain international acclaim: Urban Airship wins big at CTIA
- 11 This is not the page you’re looking for: Talking 404 errors at TED
- 11 It ain’t easy being green: Hacking on Nike open data to make sustainability easier for designers
- 09 What if banking were more Simple?
- 08 Broadway bound: Elemental Technologies adds another $13 million in funding
- 07 Portland 100: Nitin Khanna introduces the team taking Portland startups to the next level
- 02 Jive gets Cloudy. Or the Cloud gets Jivey. Either way, Jive is now available as Software as a Service (SaaS)
- 01 VendScreen and Goodie Monster: Could Portland be the epicenter of vending machine innovation?
- 01 A chunk of the BioShock team regroups in Portland as The Fullbright Company
- 01 Meet the Startup: OEN Angel Oregon 2012 recap
- 01 Emoome: Are you trying to get all emotional on me?
April 2012
- 30 Portland to Seattle with wifi, power outlets, and legroom? I’d buy that for a dollar
- 30 Well done: ShopIgniter lands Omaha Steaks
- 29 Portland Startup Weekend: Bigger, better, and more diverse
- 27 Which Oregon colleges are churning out startup founders? AngelList knows
- 27 File under irony: Portland startups Cloudability and AppFog get noticed at Under the Radar
- 26 Beer and tech startups go together like… well beer and tech startups
- 26 What does Puppet Labs do? An explanation from cofounder Teyo Tyree
- 26 Urban Airship Newsstand Publisher: It’s like the publications almost sell themselves
- 26 Puppet Labs promotes Nigel Kersten to CTO
- 25 Starve Ups Launch Pad: Connecting entrepreneurs with the resources they need
- 25 Who has social media chops? Find out at the SoMe Awards
- 25 Pitch Club: I am Jack’s complete lack of practice
- 25 All your Sybase are belong to us: Urban Airship takes on push notifications for Sybase 365
- 25 Finding Portland. And finding it beautiful and awesome.
- 25 Obscene and enthusiastic things people have said about Marshall Kirkpatrick’s startup
- 25 Columbia Sportswear app: It’s like Path for offroad journeys
- 24 This is Oregon. And don’t you forget it.
- 24 With your help, the hottest startup at Under the Radar could be a Portland company
- 24 TechCrunch has a Portland outpost
- 24 Four day work week? Something tells me Treehouse is going to fit right in
- 24 The best gets even better… or Best-er or whatever: MetaFilter launches “Best of MetaFilter”
- 24 Sold: RealLead acquired by IDX
- 24 Cohdoo’s Highlight recognized for best application user interface design by Nielsen Norman Group
- 24 Chirpify lands $1.3 million in funding … and that’s not even the most interesting part of the story
- 24 Learning to Drive: Portland startup Revisu among the first products to incorporate Google Drive features
- 24 Meet the Startup: Getting the story on EarthTechling
- 23 Want to found a company? Time to find your cofounder with FounderDating
- 23 What the heck is going on with wireless? Find out at Mobile Portland, Monday night
- 23 If a Twitter user could tweet a beer, how many beers would a Twitter user tweet?
- 20 Angela Jackson of Portland Seed Fund addresses the US House of Representatives
- 20 TEDxPortland: Discover uncharted territory, all from the comfort of your Web browser
- 20 From Wikipedian to Wiki curious: Attend Portland Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
- 18 Tech takes second at OEN’s Angel Oregon: Tellagence garners $94k
- 18 Like: ShopIgniter, Crowd Factory, Webtrends, and Woobox are now Facebook Preferred Marketing Developers
- 18 Joe Stump and Sprint.ly move to Portland
- 18 Treehouse is moving to Portland with $4.75 million in their pockets… um branches
- 18 100+ Portland startups to follow on Twitter
- 18 One’s a crowd: Portland’s Crowd Factory acquired by Marketo
- 18 When you code, Portland, Code for America and Reboot Democracy
- 17 Waxy.org hasn’t just influenced the Internet, it’s put a dent in it. Thanks, Andy Baio.
- 17 We could use another tech event in Portland, right?
- 17 Meet the Startup: Getting in good with Good Works Now
- 16 I’m always a sucker for a Portland time-lapse
- 12 Interested in Agile? Don’t miss AgilePalooza Portland
- 12 Scoble sits down with Cloudability at TechStars Cloud
- 11 Stuff just started getting real… estate: 1000watt launches Nudge
- 10 Meet the Startup: Talking shop with Return Guru
- 09 Former Huffington Post CTO Paul Berry to keynote Willamette Angel Conference
- 09 Can you quantify that? Then maybe you should attend the Quantified Self Show & Tell
- 06 Catching up with a smattering of awesome Portland startups
- 05 Startup innovation: Get your Saturday Night Fever on… on a Friday
- 04 That’s the ticket: TIXIE closes Series A
- 03 Urban Airship moves closer to the Holy Grail of targeted push messages with Segments, Meridian partnership
- 03 Meet the Startup: Getting started with Portland Startup Weekend
- 02 Oh look! It’s the Easter… Ostrich? Find Zappos eggs filled with happiness in Portland, this week
March 2012
- 29 Boombox + recycled vintage luggage = Case of Bass, pure Portland awesomeness
- 29 Looking for users? How about the City of Portland?
- 29 Bar none: Portland’s original unconference, BarCamp Portland, takes place this weekend
- 28 Girl? Geeky? Have we got an event for you
- 28 Is it getting gamey in here? Jive partners with Bunchball to launch Jive Gamification
- 27 Shut up. Put your head down. Work.
- 27 Meet the Startup: Delivering the story with brandlive
- 26 REMINDER: Mobile Portland Demolicious, tonight
- 23 Why you might want to fly solo: “Lifestyle Business” is not a dirty word (well, two)
- 22 Portland is Virgin America’s next stop
- 22 Lessons from a 40 year old (and the founder of MetaFilter)
- 21 Please enjoy: Spend some time with Facebook Creative Director Ji Lee
- 21 Pitch Club: I want you to pitch me as hard as you can
- 21 When he’s not busy running for mayor, Kveton is among the top names disrupting mobile
- 20 I’m confused, scared, and more than a little ashamed
- 20 Meet the Startup: Keeping up with Fit2B Studio
- 19 Scott Kveton, CEO of Urban Airship, is in the running to be mayor of Portland
- 16 Of course, Bridgetown would attract trolls: Portland TriMet TransitTracker under patent troll attack
- 16 REMINDER: Open Source Bridge accepting talk proposals until midnight, procrastinator pants
- 16 Portland’s Nitin Khanna named TiE Angel of the Year 2011
- 15 Zooka and HuMn Wallet: Already funded Portland Kickstarter projects… but you’re going to want to grab them
- 13 Upcoming and downfalling: Portland’s Andy Baio on the Yahoo! Facebook patent suit
- 13 Look into the “Future of Work” with Philip Rosedale, founder of Second Life and cofounder of Coffee & Power
- 13 On the couch? Couchbase types gather for CouchConf Portland
- 13 Meet the Startup: Serial entrepreneur Pete Grillo discusses the Portland startup scene
- 12 Have you joined Startup America, yet?
- 07 SXSW hack: Be the most popular geek in Austin by using Chirpify to “Tweet a Beer”
- 06 Free Friday: Fostering creativity at Urban Airship
- 06 Meet the Startup: “This is your captain speaking…” about Urban Airship
- 02 Portland Seed Fund continues to grow: Eight startups join PSF second class
- 01 What a difference a year makes: Gramfeed goes from two hour project to 2 million visitors
February 2012
- 29 Soon, they may call Portland “the big Apple”: New Apple store plans make PDX home to the largest retail space
- 29 Coder Society: Getting developers together to build something
- 28 Meet the Startup: Picking one of the brains behind Branium Studios
- 27 Are you going to SXSW, this year?
- 26 Legislating Oregon’s entrepreneurial future: Oregon Investment Act, House Bill 4040
- 24 Cultivating corporate culture: A key ingredient to building a killer startup
- 23 Portland’s SweetSpot Diabetes acquired for $8.5 million [Updated]
- 22 Looking for all of the hot spots? Well, spotsi’s launch party is the spot to be
- 21 “Siri, install Air Dictate 2.” “I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
- 21 Meet the Startup: Getting a grasp on Original Baby
- 20 Paul deGrandis: 5 tips for navigating startup life
- 20 PDX PHP: CASH Music discusses their to-be-funded, open-source Kickstarter project
- 20 Add another successful Reed entrepreneur to the list: Lucky Sort lands $500,000 in funding
- 17 Data, Culture, Networks, People: Learnings from Etsy, Code for America, and Y Combinator
- 15 Entrepreneurs need two things: coffee and power. And now, Portland is getting more of both… with Coffee & Power
- 14 Meet the Startup: Chatting with Portland mayoral candidate Charlie Hales
- 13 Beaverton, Oregon, might be the least romantic city in the United States
- 13 State of Entrepreneurship: States need to help startups succeed
- 11 Aptly named: Elevation iPhone dock takes Kickstarter to $1 million heights
- 10 Catching air: Avatron Air Display jumps to Android tablets
- 09 Someone in Portland finally got their shit together: Sh*t Portlanders Say
- 09 Ignite Portland 10: How to win at Ignite or Tips and tricks for getting the most out of your Ignite experience
- 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 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for April 25
- 24 OpenID: Aaron Hockley takes a stand and you benefit
- 24 FlipFor.Us: Making coin tosses reliable again
- 23 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for April 23
- 23 Our Strands: MyStrands rebrands as Strands
- 22 Portland Octopus launches with new skin
- 22 BarCampPortland: Five reasons to attend
- 22 37signals: Start up your startup somewhere else (like Portland)
- 21 toonlet phones it in
- 21 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for April 21
- 21 WebWare 100 loves Sandy
- 21 ConfIdent people are attractive, especially when it comes to OpenID
- 21 OpenID ID Selector promises to make OpenID less geeky
- 21 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for April 21
- 19 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for April 20
- 18 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for April 18
- 18 Interesting gigs from the Silicon Florist Gig board
- 18 Reminder: Meet OpenID developer David Recordon
- 18 Beer and Blog: Michael Sigler will make you pretty
- 18 Vidoop is ConfIdent, Portland gets two for one
- 18 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for April 18
- 17 Now on tap: Portland Startup Drinks
- 16 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for April 16
- 16 InnoTech Oregon 2008, Day 1
- 16 Portland Start-up Index for April 2008: COLOURlovers debuts at #4
- 16 Thank you
- 15 Scoble is right: Portland deserves more geek cred
- 15 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for April 16, 2008
- 15 Portland Lunch 2.0: Five reasons to host
- 14 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for April 15, 2008
- 14 GoLife Mobile dials up Voskamp
- 14 InnoTech Oregon 2008 is imminent
- 13 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for April 14, 2008
- 13 Portland is Awesome, a new group blog covering the Portland scene
- 11 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for April 12, 2008
- 11 Is Jive CMO Sam Lawrence the next Robert Scoble?
- 11 Zloop: Simple social networking for almost anyone
- 11 Webvisionary Awards to coincide with WebVisions 2008
- 10 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for April 11, 2008
- 10 Free Silicon Florist Gig board postings and other tweaks
- 09 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for April 10, 2008
- 09 Tweet for tweet: Top 30 cities on Twitter
- 09 COLOURlovers chases Webby for the second year in a row
- 08 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for April 9, 2008
- 08 Six map apps that put Portland on the mapping map
- 08 Oregon technology startups and education: Being part of the solution
- 07 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for April 8, 2008
- 07 Will Openfire Enterprise going Open Source be good news for Jive Jabber/XMPP work?
- 07 WebTrends searches for CEO, finds him at Google
- 07 Portland Lunch 2.0: Five reasons to attend
- 06 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for April 7, 2008
- 06 Jive Clearspace 2.0 is named “2.0″ for a reason
- 05 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for April 6, 2008
- 04 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for April 5, 2008
- 04 Silicon Florist gig board pricing reduced
- 03 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for April 4, 2008
- 03 Silicon Florist internship challenge
- 02 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for April 3, 2008
- 02 Sidecar: Ridiculously easy feedback widget for products, blogs
- 01 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for April 2, 2008
- 01 Vidoop secures Michael Richardson
- 01 Grabb.it redesigns, incorporates personal MP3 tumblogs
- 01 Portland Web Innovators: Five reason to attend
- 01 InnoTech Oregon 2008: Too much good stuff
March 2008
- 31 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for April 1, 2008
- 31 GoLife Mobile: Chatting with James Whitley, CEO (Part 2)
- 31 Experiencing technical difficulties
- 31 Interesting Silicon Forest gigs this week
- 30 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for March 31, 2008
- 30 Startupalooza launches 1,000 conversations
- 27 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for March 28, 2008
- 27 Hacking PDX: Compiling a geek’s guide to Portland International Airport
- 27 iovation secures $15 million
- 26 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for March 27, 2008
- 26 Oregon’s K-12 tech education sucks: A geek call to action
- 26 Startupalooza: Join fellow startups to compare notes
- 26 Sweet! UI Candy for your application
- 25 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for March 26, 2008
- 25 Kistner joins Silicon-Valley-based Voce Communications
- 25 Mapdango tops Mashup Camp charts
- 25 Silicon Florist: Job postings
- 25 Understanding the venture capitalist
- 24 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for March 25, 2008
- 24 GoLife Mobile: Chatting with James Whitley, CEO (Part 1)
- 24 Beyond the Forest: OpenID and the bigs, all hat and no cattle
- 23 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for March 24, 2008
- 21 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for March 22, 2008
- 21 Portland widget startups on the cusp of something big
- 21 Smart-ups: OEN Eugene chapter
- 21 New Feature: Silicon Forest Job/Gig board
- 20 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for March 21, 2008
- 20 GoLife Mobile: Chatting with James Whitley CEO (part 1)
- 20 Silicon Forest claims two of the largest Web 2.0 investments in 2007
- 20 SplashCast “social advertising” tees up $4 million
- 19 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for March 20, 2008
- 19 Portland’s top 30 tech Twitter-ers (#1 may surprise you)
- 18 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for March 19, 2008
- 18 Confidence in Web 2.0 isn’t waning, but confidence in the Valley may be
- 18 Platial goes mobile
- 18 Russell Shaw: A tribute to a Portland Blogger
- 17 Twitter: 7 Silicon Forest creations that will improve your experience
- 16 Russell Shaw, RIP
- 15 Portland Start-up Index for March 2008: AboutUs retains top spot
- 14 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for March 15, 2008
- 14 Editorial: I could use your advice
- 14 Calagator code sprint on March 15
- 13 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for March 14, 2008
- 13 SplashCast adds MySpace to its friends list
- 12 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for March 13, 2008
- 12 MyStrands wants to invest $100,000 in your startup
- 12 Geek Lunch with David Recordon, OpenID evangelist
- 11 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for March 12, 2008
- 11 GoLife VADOWERX Framework: Introduced to selected developers
- 11 Tweetpeek: Create your own Twitter-based “Pulse of (whatever)”
- 10 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for March 11, 2008
- 10 Portland Lunch 2.0: The sequel
- 10 SXSW: Josh Bancroft featured by Forrester’s Charlene Li
- 09 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for March 10, 2008
- 08 ExpressionEngine 2.0 sneak peek
- 07 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for March 8, 2008
- 07 Silicon Florist experiencing minor technical difficulties
- 06 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for March 7, 2008
- 06 SXSW 2008: Silicon Forest contingent making the sojourn to Austin
- 06 Showdango: Find and promote Webinars
- 06 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for March 6, 2008
- 05 OEN announces the winner of Angel Oregon (and it’s not a tech company)
- 05 MIXr: First mobile social networking app with Silverlight touchscreen UI
- 05 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for March 5, 2008
- 04 Jive Software selects new digs
- 04 Vocal Nation takes political news in slide
- 04 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for March 4, 2008
- 03 Guest Editorial: Scott Kveton
- 03 Silicon Florist gets some sprucing
- 03 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 01 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
February 2008
- 29 paidContent and mocoNews mobilized by FreeRange
- 29 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 28 Meet: SEMpdx Searchfest 2008 is March 10
- 28 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 27 Portland Lunch 2.0: Filling and good for you, too
- 27 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 26 Jive Software nearly doubles customer base in 2007
- 26 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 25 Monitoring the pulse of Open Source
- 25 GoLife Mobile framework promises true “write once, run anywhere” for mobile, digital-telepathy
- 24 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 23 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 21 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 21 Open Source Software meeting of the minds
- 21 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 20 Angel Oregon: Three diverse Web-tech companies vie for funding
- 20 FreeRange WebReader garners Chicago Tribune ink, affection
- 20 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 19 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 18 Reminder: Marshall Kirkpatrick on RSS, February 19
- 18 Portland on Fire: Slow social networking
- 18 ORBlogs releases iPhone interface
- 17 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 16 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 15 Portland Start-up Index: February 2008
- 15 Startupalooza: Start making your plans to attend
- 15 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 14 Mobile Portland getting mobilized
- 14 Prerequisite Valentine’s Day post
- 14 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 13 TwitterThreads: Portland’s love affair with Twitter continues
- 13 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 12 Guest editorial: Is Portland behind when it comes to mobile?
- 12 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 11 Toonlet releases embed code
- 10 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 09 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 08 Silicon Florist: Share your project so I can share your project
- 08 Waxy.org: It’s back and now it’s part of Portland
- 07 Beyond the Forest: OpenID adds Microsoft, Google, Verisign and IBM
- 07 Silicon Forest and the Identity Management Working Group
- 07 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 06 Ignite Portland 2: Pretend you attended or relive the experience
- 06 Ignite Portland 2: Let the rounding up begin
- 06 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 05 Kveton joins Vidoop, opens Portland office
- 05 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 04 Ignite Portland follows ink with air
- 04 Calagator, the PDX tech calendar, snaps to life
- 04 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 03 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 01 BarCamp Portland 2008 dates announced
- 01 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
January 2008
- 31 Portland Startup Weekend, May 23 – 25, 2008
- 31 Grabb.it releases API, documentation
- 29 SplashCast reports metrics, hits the 200 million views mark
- 29 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 28 Iterasi launches at DEMO 2008
- 26 Silicon Florist field trip: DEMO 2008
- 26 Ignite Portland hits the mainstream press
- 25 BREAKING: Portland Startup Weekend
- 25 Lunch 2.0 comes to Portland
- 25 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 24 Portland Topic o’ the Day: XMPP
- 24 Watching the Watcher watching Portland
- 23 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 23 MyStrands joins Data Portability Working Group
- 23 Meet: Portland Metroblogs monthly get-together
- 22 Sandy has more to want
- 22 Trimet Tracker for your iPhone
- 22 Tastymate adds an extra ingredient to restaurant reviews
- 21 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 21 Calagator gnaws on the Portland tech calendar problem
- 21 Ignite Portland 2 presenters named
- 18 Stripping in Portland
- 18 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 17 AirMail: Portland takes the lead in MacBook Air accessories
- 17 wired.MD gets wired into a new parent company
- 16 Apparently, CLIQ didn’t click with its new owners
- 16 Startupalooza announces date, initial speakers
- 16 Google Android likes Jive Smack
- 16 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 15 Discogs rocks the Portland Start-up Index, now at 40 sites
- 15 Meet: Portland Web Innovators discuss mobile Web, February 13
- 14 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 12 Digital Watermarks: Has Digimarc’s time finally come?
- 11 Pulse of Portland begins beating
- 11 Portland Startup Weekend: Could it be what the Rose City needs?
- 11 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 10 Lighting a fire under your derriere
- 10 Wiki-based AboutUs edits its offerings
- 10 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement
- 09 Jive offers Clearspace X free of charge (to some of you)
- 08 With your help, finding Portland events may soon get a lot easier
- 08 Beyond the Forest: Google and Facebook join DataPortability.org
- 07 Jive Clearspace X snags InfoWorld award
- 07 Meet: Big Idea Bash, January 30
- 05 Portland Start-up Index: Is your site there?
- 04 SXSW field trip for Portland Web Innovators
- 04 Portland a-Twitter, an editorial opinion
- 03 Silicon Florist’s weekly links arrangement
- 02 iStrands brings MyStrands to iPhone, iPod Touch
- 02 Silicon Florist adds ma.gnolia to the arrangement
- 01 A (Portlander’s) profile a day, that’s all we ask
December 2007
- 28 MyStrands hits Times Square for New Year’s Eve
- 26 Meet: PDX Geek Holiday Extravaganza, December 29
- 19 Ignite Portland 2, update 2
- 19 Ignite Portland sets the time and place for Ignite Portland 2
- 18 I Want Sandy on Twitter
- 17 Super Friends launch “Legion of Tech”
- 14 What’s that smell? Oh, Ignite Portland has started to smolder again
- 13 Walker Tracker steps up to Google Chart API
- 12 OEN says every time a bell rings an Angel looks to fund a startup
- 11 Cooking Up A Story goes Dutch with Ecotrust
- 07 Uncloaking: Imindi
- 07 Kryptiq repeats as Oregon’s most admired privately held technology company
- 06 Newsvetter seeks to rescue media from flood of boring press releases
- 05 JanRain heralds the release of OpenID 2.0
- 05 MyStrands lands $24 million in funding
- 05 SplashCast woos former Starbucks and Nike exec to team, board
November 2007
- 29 Cloud Four: Anything but cloudy
- 28 Panic releases tasty new version of Candybar
- 27 19Marketplace releases Workplace2Go
- 21 Have a very happy Thanksgiving
- 20 Walker Tracker puts walkiness next to (Greek) godliness
- 16 Meet: Portland Coders’ Bash 2007
- 15 Meet: BarCamp Portland informal meetup tonight
- 14 Greenlight Greater Portland names additional execs
- 14 People: Techpaulogy Biggs moves from Anvil to Jive
- 13 Stuff I missed: KnitMap
- 12 OTBC looking to refill empty nest
- 09 Pretend you were there: Attensa “RSS and attention” from Portland Web Innovators
- 09 MomHub brings kid-friendly Portland to the forefront
- 08 South of the Forest: Meet Oregon Investment Fund in Medford
- 08 Irony: I want Sandy launches, and I need a reminder to cover it
- 08 iovation lands $10 million from Intel Capital
- 07 Urban Drinks adds happy hours within stumbling distance
- 06 Jive’s new space should include a bigger trophy case
- 05 Meet: Portland Web Innovators discuss RSS and attention
- 01 Picktastic bets on public BETA
October 2007
- 30 Jive outgrows its current digs
- 29 Ignite Portland videos available
- 26 TwitterWhere releases BETA Adobe AIR application
- 26 Queen Bee sitting pretty with UpSale
- 25 Ignite Portland was (insert your favorite fire-related metaphor here)
- 25 Light it up! Ignite Portland is tonight
- 24 ChoiceA takes on MLS
- 23 TwitterWhere: Get tweets by geographic location
- 23 Twitter on Portland, Portland on Twitter
- 23 NetworthIQ sees users surge after Aussie ink
- 19 Culinate launches new blog, bringing guests to the table
- 18 Ignite Portland running into fire code issues or I’ll take “irony” for 500, Alex.
- 18 Platial acquires Frappr (updated)
- 17 Planning to attend the APNBA Portland Business 2.0 event? Keep planning
- 16 pdxMindShare leads me to believe Jive might be hiring, possibly maybe
- 16 CLIQ promises additional reporting features
- 14 Is Sandy wrapping up her on-the-job training?
- 12 Kumquat: Get the feedback you deserve
- 11 Panic starts Google Group for Coda, Web dev
- 10 Ignite Portland preso deadline approaching
- 09 Geek alert: Portland added to Google Maps Street View
- 05 SplashCast signs 3 out of 4 major labels
- 04 In case you missed it: Widgets at Portland Web Innovators
- 03 Planet Argon offers up Boxcar account for October Hackfest
- 03 MyStrands partyStrands: Bringing the backchannel to the forefront
- 03 Reminder: Portland Web Innovators tonight
- 01 Walker Tracker hits one billion steps tracked
- 01 Portland Small Business says, “Tell us where to go”
September 2007
- 28 SplashCast player hits 1 million views in a single day
- 27 Ignite Portland: Let your geek flag fly
- 27 Jive Clearspace X supports Attensa support
- 27 Portland Business 2.0 at APNBA
- 26 CelleCast offers sneak preview
- 25 Attensa Feed Server now free for five
- 25 Portland Small Business wants you
- 24 Baby needs a COO
- 20 Jive Software wins 14th Annual Oregon Entrepreneur Network (OEN) award
- 20 Ignite Portland: October 25, Wieden+Kennedy
- 20 In case you missed it: Speeding up Web performance, DevGroup NW
- 20 Stealth: Imindi thought engine
- 19 Portland tech startup co-op, concept proposed
- 18 Reminder: Portland Open Coffee, September 19
- 18 Platial uses new API for latest build, new look
- 18 Local Signal: Portland-focused start page
- 18 LUNARR landing
- 17 Jive announces Clearspace 1.6, refreshes site
- 17 DevGroup NW: Optimizing Web site performance
- 17 Reminder: LUNARR preview tonight
- 16 Portland at TechCrunch40: Not according to the leaked list
- 16 Oregon Startups sees 37, raises 13
- 15 TechCrunch40: Portland presentations?
- 14 Ignite Portland getting downright toasty
- 14 StepChange announces CLIQ, a dynamic, blogroll widget
- 13 Marshall Kirkpatrick moving back to the other side of the desk
- 13 Tweet! SplashCast announces Twitter integration, Columbia Records deal
- 13 Attensa releases new RSS readers, cleans up blog lint
- 12 JanRain releases Pibb for Facebook
- 12 Meet: BarCamp Portland Meetup, September 27
- 12 AboutUs grows new skin
- 12 Silicon Forest Universe: Get yourself into orbit
- 12 Silicon Florist: One month as the florist
- 10 Ignite Portland has sparks beginning to fly
- 10 Widgets: Portland Web Innovators October 3
- 07 To-do: Name that stealthy Portland startup
- 07 Video: Alpha Geek streaming InVerge 2007
- 07 Meet: Portland Internet Astronauts September 20
- 06 Coda named one of the 35 absolutely essential Mac apps
- 06 Video: OpenID and Digital Identity
- 06 Portland pairing: Using Attensa and Jive Clearspace in tandem
- 06 Goboz launches Digg for Portland
- 05 Breaking News: SplashCast to release fullscreen player
- 05 Uncloaking: LUNARR
- 05 Reminder: Digital Identity and OpenID, tonight
- 05 Portland WikiWednesday, you’re invited (tonight)
- 04 Oregon Startups finds 37, asks for more
August 2007
- 31 Portland Open Coffee Club, September 19
- 31 AboutUs expands into new space
- 30 Version Tracker acquired by CNET
- 30 Roundup: KATU Portland-blogger meetup
- 29 SplashCast launches new player–early
- 29 Reminder: KATU Portland-blogger meetup, tonight
- 29 Tune-in to the Grabb.it stream of consciousness
- 28 OpenID 2.0 spec released
- 28 Making PHP act like Rails
- 27 Sneak peek: Jive Clearspace
- 27 Josh Bancroft: Domain names free to a good home
- 27 Attensa and Kapow co-host Webinar on RSS and Web 2.0 apps
- 27 Northwest Innovation interviews YourList CEO
- 24 WordPress plugin: AJAX Search
- 24 Buy Local: OpenID support
- 24 Gigs: FINE is hiring
- 24 Jive Software releases Clearspace 1.5
- 23 Grabb.it releases microblogging feature
- 23 Vimeo releases Hubnut widget
- 23 Tweet: New SplashCast player in the works
- 23 Reminder: BarCamp Portland meetup tonight at Jive Software
- 22 Jive Talks (finally) talks about $15 million round
- 22 Additional details on Rails Boxcar
- 22 Jive Software ClearspaceX powers new PC World forums
- 22 Reminder: Metroblogging Portland meetup tonight at rontoms
- 22 Portland Grassroots Media Camp begins August 24
- 21 KATU Portland-blogger invites blanket the area
- 20 SXSW 2008: Portland presenters?
- 17 Jive Software secures $15 million… and moves blog to Clearspace
- 17 Pibb-powered backchannel for BarCamp Block
- 16 Grabb.it releases incredibly cool interface for iPhone
- 16 RailsBoxcar open for business
- 16 Ignite Portland begins to smolder
- 16 Metroblogging Portland meetup August 22
- 15 Diggnation broadcasting live from Portland?
- 15 iPhone Whois
- 15 Shopify Marketplace widget released by CouldBe Studios
- 14 Marshall Kirkpatrick offers blog matchmaker service
- 14 Web Worker Daily covers NetworthIQ
- 14 YourList takes on Craigslist
- 13 VC Thunderdome: Seed Oregon
- 13 Gnomedex 2007: Portland Perspective
- 13 JanRain announces DietPibb 0.3
- 13 Portland Internet Astronauts to meet August 16
- 12 Rumor: Goboz looking to take on CitySearch
- 12 UrbanDrinks improves profile pages
- 11 Ignite Portland?
- 10 Viva la Platial
- 10 Jive Software unveils “Adopt a Customer” program
- 10 StepChange hints at new widget under development
- 10 SplashCast adds email notifications
- 10 PDX PHP OSCON 2007 Recap
- 09 Matt Beck named to Shopify Advisory Council
- 09 Portland Web Innovators discuss OpenID, September 5
- 09 Ultimate Blogger 3 from Urban Honking
- 09 BarCamp Portland gathering August 23
- 09 Converge on Inverge 2007
- 09 Grabb.it
