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title: 'Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 20'
date: '2008-08-20T22:57:47-07:00'
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# Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 20

#### [Mobile Portland: Mobile Insecurity](http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1025755/)

Data and identity theft due to mobile phone theft and vulnerabilities are rising concerns. However, with both businesses and developers mobile security usually takes a back seat to features, convenience and time-to-market. Ken Westin, the Founder and CTO of GadgetTrak, will lead a spirited discussion touching on mobile security and privacy. 

#### [A Fundraising Survival Guide](http://paulgraham.com/fundraising.html)

Paul Graham writes “Raising money is the second hardest part of starting a startup. The hardest part is making something people want: most startups that die, die because they didn’t do that. But the second biggest cause of death is probably the difficulty of raising money. Fundraising is brutal.”

#### [Hopping On the Bus to Gnomedex! « Techcraver.com | Craving tech, craving life!](http://www.techcraver.com/2008/08/19/hopping-on-the-bus-to-gnomedex/)

Jason Harris writes “This weekend, the best social media/web culture conference of the year, Gnomedex gets underway in Seattle. For those of you unaware, Gnomedex is a 2-day social media conference hosted by Chris and Ponzi Pirillo. This conference is not driven by a corporate message, rather it’s just a bunch of geeks getting together to talk about our craft(s) and geek out.”

#### [Free MusicFest NW Wristbands From Strands.com | “Portland Centric” « Portland Music, Art, Events, Entertainment, Sustainability | PDX PIPELINE](http://pdxpipeline.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/free-musicfest-nw-wristbands-from-strandscom-portland-centric/)

Julian Chadwick writes “Luckily, I was able to meet up with Heather of Strands.com this week. Lucky for you that is because Strands is giving away MusicFest NW wristbands–those are like $50…all because we/they love you.”

#### [“We’ve” been listening to you! | Oregon Media Insiders](http://www.oregonmediainsiders.com/node/1669)

Oregon Media Insiders elicits a string of comments after mentioning oregonlive.com’s pending redesign “So, the Big O has been listening to us – and are preparing a re-launch of the website. Of course, they’re getting the re-launch after several other newspapers in the chain get the makeover. The good news: it looks different. The bad news: it looks the same.”

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