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title: 'Fail blogging: 27 Portland startup topics I should have covered in 2012'
date: '2013-01-03T10:11:03-08:00'
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# Fail blogging: 27 Portland startup topics I should have covered in 2012

Honestly, I got into this whole blogging thing with the best intentions. I swear. But sometimes, the little side project that is Silicon Florist takes a back seat to other efforts. And some stories fall by the wayside. But that doesn’t mean that they’re any less important.

So, as chagrin as I am to admit it, a few things either got by me or sat there without getting written in 2012. Mea culpa.

But the very least I can do—and I do mean “the *very* least”—is mention a few of them. So here we go. Here are some of the stories that should have graced the pages of Silicon Florist, last year. But didn’t. Through no one’s fault but my own.

Just imagine the following with really long headlines and poorly written posts:

### Acquisitions

- [Cisco acquires ClearAccess](http://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?articleId=834638&type=webcontent "Cisco Completes Acquisition of ClearAccess")
- [Janrain acquires ClickPass](http://janrain.com/blog/janrain-acquires-clickpass/ "Janrain acquires ClickPass")
- [Perceptive Pixel acquired by Microsoft](http://www.perceptivepixel.com/ "Perceptive Pixel")
- [Second Story acquired by SapientNitro](http://www.sapient.com/en-us/sapientnitro/news/press-releases/a2052.html/ "Second Story acquired by SapientNitro")
- [SEOmoz acquires Followerwonk](http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seomoz-pro-member-you-now-get-followerwonk-free "SEOmoz acquires Followerwonk")

### General coverage

- [Bettery](http://sustainablebusinessoregon.com/articles/2012/09/startup-bettery-sets-out-to-change.html?page=all "Bettery")
- [Cascadia Games](http://cascadiagames.com/ "Cascadia Games")‘s growing game portfolio
- [Cloudability](http://cloudability.com "Cloudability") launches out of private beta, available to all users
- [Concrete5](http://www.concrete5.org/ "Concrete5")
- [Dialsmith](http://www.perceptionanalyzer.com/ "Dialsmith")
- [The Digits](http://watchthedigits.com/ "The Digits")
- [Engine Yard](http://www.engineyard.com/ "Engine Yard")‘s Portland presence
- [Flickfolia](http://www.flickfolia.com/ "Flickfolia")
- [Forage](http://letsforage.com/ "Forage")
- From the makers of TouchPets: [Little Chomp](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/little-chomp/id533209262?mt=8 "Little Chomp")
- [LynkSnap](http://www.lynksnap.com/ "LynkSnap")
- [Night & Day Studios partners with ScrollMotion](http://news.nightanddaystudios.com/announcing-our-new-partnership/ "Announcing our new partnership")
- [OEN Angel Oregon](http://www.oen.org/events/angel-oregon/? "OEN Angel Oregon") applications open for 2013
- INDUSTRY’s [ORA iPad speakers](http://oraaudio.com/ "ORA iPad speakers")
- [PivotPlanet](https://www.pivotplanet.com/ "PivotPlanet")‘s launch
- [Portland Pick](http://www.theportlandpick.com/ "Portland Pick")
- [Ride with GPS](http://ridewithgps.com/ "Ride with GPS")
- [Showbacker working to bring Radiohead to Portland](http://www.showbacker.com/shows/view/radiohead/ "Showbacker")
- [Small World News TV](http://smallworldnews.tv/ "Small World News TV")
- [Sprintly 1.0](http://blog.sprint.ly/post/35553995309/introducing-sprint-ly-1-0 "Sprintly 1.0") released
- [Trapit](http://trap.it/ "Trapit")
- [Volved](http://volved.org/ "Volved")

But wait. There’s more! Or something. I’ve got a few others that are currently half-written. So as the new year gets underway, I’ll work to complete those posts and get them, um, posted.

*([Image courtesy Tony Chang](http://www.flickr.com/photos/ponderer/3559886625/ "Fail"). Used under Creative Commons.)*