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title: 'Portland Octopus launches with new skin'
date: '2008-04-22T14:49:27-07:00'
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# Portland Octopus launches with new skin

[![Portland Octopus](https://i0.wp.com/siliconflorist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/portlandoctopus.jpg?w=925)](http://portlandoctopus.com "Portland Octopus")Looking for more news on what’s happening on the Portland scene? Who isn’t?

Luckily [Portland Octopus](http://portlandoctopus.com "Portland Octopus")—now with a [brand new look and feel](http://www.portlandoctopus.com/portland-octopus-comes-alive/ "Portland Octopus comes alive")—is hoping to help.

No, not [that Portland Octopus](http://flickr.com/photos/cecily/151672114/ "Purple Portland octopus at Greek Cusina").

Unlike the more well-known octopus that tends to hang atop Greek restaurants, this Portland Octopus serves as a group blog focused on Portland cultural happenings:

> We absolutely love Portland but have never quite been satisfied with the community networking websites available. We thought we could do a better job of providing this service ourselves. And so, Portland Octopus was born. Music, food, art, architecture, hiking, biking, sports, festivals, local beer, wine and spirits—we are here to celebrate all that Portland has to offer!

Originally launched in [December 2007](http://www.portlandoctopus.com/alberta-arts-district/ "First post on Portland Octopus"), Portland Octopus is a side project of Selliken Systems, LLC. (Yet another [Portland-based mapping application](http://www.homequestdemo.com/ "HomeQuest demo") I need to add to my next [Portland map app round up](http://siliconflorist.com/2008/04/08/six-map-apps-that-put-portland-on-the-mapping-map/ "Portland map apps").)

*(Hat tip [Nino Marchetti](http://www.ninomarchetti.com/ "Nino Marchetti"))*