Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 05

Dawn Foster writes “The first ever WhereCampPDX event is coming up in just 2 weeks on October 17th-19th where local geo-geeks of all stripes will be gathering for a weekend of location based fun.”

Via the JanRain blog “The number of unique relying parties continues to grow at a very good pace. We ended September just shy of 25k.”

Mike Rogoway writes “MetroFi’s 600 abandoned Wi-Fi antennas will stay up at least through April 2009, as the city waits for the gear to be legally forfeit.”

Will Norris writes “I’m happy to announce that version 3.0 of the WordPress OpenID plugin is now available. As previously mentioned, there are a lot of new features in this release.”

Via Upcoming “Bring friends and join us to celebrate the launch of the official Obama ’08 iPhone application. We’ll screen the presidential debate and then show highlights of the Obama ’08 app and meet the Portland members of the development team.”