Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 30

Gia Lyons writes “I’ll be onsite in Portland next week, and will finally get to meet my new boss, Sam Lawrence, in person. I already have secrets about him, so I think trust has been established already.”

StageDive, Inc. is seeking a talented and experienced web developer to implement creative technologies and create a special interest social network community based around high quality user generated audio and video.

Josh Pyles writes “Today at Beer and Blog we discussed the possibilities of distributed ‘micro-blogging’ services using an open standard, and blogging platforms. It’s certainly an interesting idea, and I would love to see it come to fruition, but I still have several doubts about it. There are several key components that may seem small overall, but they are the little nuances that make Twitter our favorite online service.”