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Category: Links

Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 12

Let’s Hear It for CubeSpace! | Our PDX Network

Betsy Richter writes “CubeSpace is one of those businesses that’s also successfully transitioned itself into an essential hub as well. Sure, you can rent office space or meeting space by the hour from CubeSpace, and it’s been the place where plenty of technology events happen (WordCamp, BarCamp, Start Up to Side Project, CyborgCamp, etc. etc. etc.)”

Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 11

Looking forward: Free Geek, Personal Telco, Intel, more – Silicon Forest

Mike Rogoway of The Oregonian shares this week’s installment of the positive things happening in the Silicon Forest.

Kudos to Joe Smith and KGW | Our PDX Network

Geoff K writes “I wanted to give some major props to KGW, Stephanie Stricklen and her producer Aaron. In over 15 years of living in Portland I’ve never seen a program so devoted to connecting and covering the community. Also, given the fact that many local magazine shows are ‘Pay for Play’ now you are an extremely welcome breath of fresh air in an otherwise stuffy market space. I look forward to watching 7 @ The Square online every night and with the open mics and cameras during commercials you make us all feel a part of the show.”

MySpaceID Added to RPX and more…

Via the JanRain blog “Today JanRain is announcing support for MySpaceID in RPX. We worked closely with the MySpace product team to integrate their MySpaceID open platform in RPX. Now website operators that use RPX can easily register and sign in MySpace users at their site and bring their profile data including friends and interests to create an instant social community.”

Time Magazine Names Portland Developed Field Runners in Top 10 Games of 2008 | Our PDX Network

Geoff K writes “Time Magazine named Field Runners as it’s pick on their Top 10 games of 2008. This list includes ALL games on all platforms and so it was pretty amazing to see an iPhone game make this list (especially one which has only been on the market for a couple of months.)”

tech.brianwestbrook.com: Surviving Layoffs: How-To Guide

Brian Westbrook writes “For those recently unemployed — my condolences… I’ve been there. After your week of decompression and relaxation, I’d like to offer some tips for finding that next job (even if you’re not subject to a layoff)….”

WordPress 2.7 Release Party! at Beer and Blog Portland

Via the Beer and Blog, um, blog “Keep in mind that Beer and Blog will start at 5:30pm, a little later that usual, to coincide with the start of the WordPress 2.7 release party. And while there’s bound to be a couple of us at our regular haunt at the Green Dragon waiting until it’s time to party at CubeSpace, the extra time will give you extra time to grab some brews. It’s BYOB, baby!”

Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 10

Ten Thousand Tiny Twitter Tweets

Josh Bancroft writes “Twitter has become an integral part of my life. My friends there, who number in the hundreds, really are people I consider friends. I have real connections with each of them, even the ones I’ve not met yet ‘in real life.'”

Trust and Corporate Blogging

Dawn Foster writes “The real message here is that trust has to be earned. Trust has to be earned for each new corporate blog and each individual blogger. Jeremiah Owyang put together an informal checklist to help you evaluate your current company blog. A great corporate blog can be a trusted source of information, but it takes real work and diligence to get to that point.”

Calagator in the News

Via the Calagator blog “2008 has seen a huge surge in events, new projects, and other interesting tech activity, and the Calagator team is happy to be a part of this, both as an ongoing software project, and something that facilitates our community meeting up and geeking out.”

Layoff watch: Yahoo Hillsboro – Silicon Forest

Mike Rogoway writes “No immediate word from the company on how many Yahoos lost their jobs today in Hillsboro, but the twitterverse has an answer.”

Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 09

KGW Live @7 Hot Box: Silicon Florist Rick Turoczy

I totally took more time than I was supposed to. I hope @stephstricklen and @thesquare are still speaking to me.

The Current State of Me « Dyepot, Teapot

Audrey Eschright writes “I’m going to try to start a meme. I don’t know whether it’ll work, but let’s try. Using the community success questions I posed in my last post, I’ll tell you how I did this year. You do the same. Maybe we can get a better idea of where people are struggling and succeeding.”

KGW Live @7: Break takes

My favorite part of the show. These guys are willing to leave the mics open and the cameras rolling during the breaks. It’s incredibly interesting to watch.

Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 08

WordPress Release Party and Blogger Food Drive | Our PDX Network

Aaron Hockley writes “In addition to bloggy goodness, we’re also holding a Blogger Food Drive. The Oregon Food Bank is currently handing out more food than they’re bringing in, so any contributions would be appreciated. Bring your non-perishable food donations to the WordPress party, or drop them off anytime this week at CubeSpace (622 SE Grand Avenue).”

Why Free Geek means so much to me and why it’s more important than ever!

Marie Deatherage writes “You all know how much I love Free Geek. I’ve seen quite a lot of nonprofits, and I have to say it’s the most amazing one I’ve ever encountered. Why? Well, here are a few of the reasons…”

Portland startup lands two Oregon tech vets for board – Silicon Forest

Mike Rogoway writes “Ontier, a downtown Portland startup launched earlier this year, said this afternoon that Oregon tech vets Les Fahey and Paul Gulick are joining the company’s board and investing in the business.”

The Great Portland Interview Experiment: Lawduck Edition

Dawn Foster writes “I had the pleasure of interviewing J-P Voilleque aka @lawduck for the Great Portland Interview Experiment. In this version, I asked the questions, and JPV provided the answers. I was also interviewed for this experiment by Grant Kruger if you are interested.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 06

A Little Historical Perspective on Portland Tech | Our PDX Network

Geoff K writes “Since I truly believe that ‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it’ I believe it’s important to share some of the conclusions which came out of hours and hours of discussions, often heated debates and candid comments from reporters about the tech scene from Web 1.0.”

Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 04

Facebook Connect vs. OpenID: Who Will Emerge Victorious? – ReadWriteWeb

Marshall Kirkpatrick writes “Thanks to the Vidoop crew for the conversation this morning that inspired this post.”

Layoff watch: Iterasi – Silicon Forest

Mike Rogoway writes “In the long run, though, Pete’s still optimistic. His company, founded in May ’07, helps users capture Web pages as a snapshot in time — preserving an archive of the way a site looked at a given moment. Customers remain enthusiastic about Iterasi, Pete said, and his advisers and investors forecast better times in about a year.”

Panic – Coda 1.6.1

Via Panic ” Coda 1.6.1 is now available for download from our web site. Full release notes for this version are also available. This is a free upgrade for all Coda owners. We encourage all Coda users to upgrade to this latest version. “

State of Portland Tech | PDX Web Innovators

Adam DuVander writes “It’s been quite a year for the Portland tech scene. Web Innovators itself has gone from cozy gatherings around a table to much larger events. Last night we had more than 40 people together at CubeSpace to talk about 2008 and look ahead to what we need to do in 2009.”

Looking Forward: Hillsboro, Instantiations, OpenID, more – Silicon Forest

Mike Rogoway writes “‘Whatever happened to OpenID?’ Here are two takes, from CNET and Wired, on the future of OpenID, a platform developed by Aloha High’s own Brad Fitzpatrick (who now works at Google). OpenID remains a big deal in Oregon, where JanRain and Vidoop are building their companies around it.”

Recommended follow: Mike Rogoway of The Oregonian

Mike Rogoway of The Oregonian and the Silicon Forest blog is now on Twitter. Follow him, won’t you?

WordCamp Vegas Agenda Announced (Hotel Discount Ends Soon) » Another Blogger

Portland WordPress types and OurPDX writers Aaron Hockley and Geoff Kleinman will be speaking at WordCamp Vegas. Hockley writes “I’m excited to see that VegasGeek has announced the agenda for WordCamp: Las Vegas. It’ll be great to have blogging ‘celebrities’ such as Matt, Lorelle, and Liz together in one place. Lorelle’s energy at WordCamp Portland was amazing. It’ll be great to meet the woman who called me an SOB in July 2006. And that Matt guy? I’m a big fan of his work.”

JanRain’s RPX in Action

Peat Bakke writes “This morning I converted the OpenID Foundation’s membership website to use RPX, and ditched the old plugin I hacked up to support the OpenID 2.0 features. If you’re interested in seeing it in action head on over to their site: https://openid.net/foundation/members”

Twitter / Stephanie Stricklen: if the boss says yes…

Yet another reason to attend Beer and Blog tomorrow. KGW folks may be swinging by. All thanks to the Blazers game giving them the night off.

Does Your Company Have Friends? It Should. | Positively Glorious!

John Metta writes “Now, I know exactly why this hit me the way it did, but it’s important to discuss. Here’s a company that I have no financial stake in and have never visited. I’m a marginal- at best- user of their product, and I don’t even know anyone who was laid off. For this company that is tangentially related to my life- however brief the emotion was- I would actually shed a tear? Yes. Why? Because sometimes a company is not just a company. Sometimes, it’s a friend.”

Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 03

Ain’t No Party Like A Cyborg Party

Via PDX Pipeline “Come to the official CyborgCamp pre-party and partake in drinks and festivities before the conference in the morning! Special guests Cami Kaos and Mike (Dr. Normal) will be live-broadcasting Strange Love Live. There will be great conversations and (hopefully) drinks!”

The OpenID Foundation Needs You – ReadWriteWeb

Marshall Kirkpatrick writes “Do you think that open standards, data portability and questions of online identity are important? We do; we think these issues are the foundation upon which many of the most exciting and important online innovations are being built.”

Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 02

A Matter of Days | raven.me

Raven Zachary writes “Today marks the end of Obama ‘08 for iPhone as the application has been marked for removal from the App Store. The application had a lifespan of just 61 days, 32 of those pre-election, the period of time that really mattered. Unlike the vast majority of iPhone applications available in the App Store, Obama ‘08 was tied to specific time-based goal – supporting the election of Senator Obama. It had a defined objective with a clear timeframe.”

New Hires at Stepchange

Via RWW Jobwire “Kevin Tate of Stepchange sent us an email to announce that they have made a couple of recent hires. The Portland, Oregon based online strategy, design, development and marketing firm has hired Crystal Beasley as Designer & Interactive Brand Manager and Jessica Swan as Sr. Account Executive. Tate also reported that business is good and that Stepchange is moving into a bigger office.”