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Category: Links

Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for November 11

Rick Turoczy on November 12, 2008

Madrona brings former Yahoo veep to Portland – Silicon Forest

Mike Rogoway writes “John Cook, now my corporate cousin at TechFlash in Seattle, points out that the Emerald City’s Madrona Venture Group has brought former Yahoo VP Matt Compton on board and stationed him in Portland.”

Are mobile Linux and open source finally for real?

Via The 451 Group “In looking at recent developments and findings on the fast-moving mobile device and software market, such as those referenced here, we see further indication that the renewed hopes for mobile Linux and open source software are justified.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for November 10

Rick Turoczy on November 11, 2008

BlogHer’s not coming to PDX in 2009 | Our PDX Network

Via OurPDX “BlogHer, a online community for women who blog, will not be coming to Portland…or any of the other finalists selected for the 2009 conference.”

Cyborg Camp 2008

Via the AboutUs blog “Just when you thought concepts for fun new BarCamp-style unconferences had been exhausted, Portland tech wunderkinds Amber Case, Nate Angell, Chris Pitzer, and Mike Kaos have brought you CyborgCamp, ‘a conversation about the future of technology and how humans fit in.'”

Are More Companies Turning to Social Media in this Economy? at Fast Wonder Blog: Consulting, Online Communities, and Social Media

Dawn Foster writes “Yesterday, I came up with this hypothesis: Companies are pulling back and reassessing their strategies and spending in light of the economic situation. During this reassessment, some companies are deciding to increase their social media presence as a way to stretch already thin budgets. Even with consulting fees to help them get started, they are still spending a lot less than they would for even a single, small, traditional marketing campaign.”

OTBC Open House

Steve Morris writes “Now that our move is complete, it’s time for an open house to invite everyone in to check out the new office. Please join us for some refreshments and snacks, and a tour of the new place.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for November 07

Rick Turoczy on November 8, 2008

What Microsoft giveth, Jive taketh away

Via the Open Road blog “Interestingly, in the same week that Microsoft started doling out the software, collaboration vendor Jive started taking it away from open-source projects. As Orion Addis, Jive Software’s sales representative covering the Bay Area, wrote to an open-source peer of mine: We no longer offer free licensing of Clearspace, Clearspace Community, or Jive Forums to open source projects. We are only selling licensing moving forward. “

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for November 06

Rick Turoczy on November 7, 2008

Needmore Studio for Lease

Via Needmore Designs “We are in the process of relocating our home and studio and are looking for a loving occupant for our current studio – a classic, beautiful, newly renovated office space in the historic Olympic Mills Commerce Center (see recent write-up of building)! We’ve had a fabulous time here; this is a nice building with lots of interesting and creative folks. The space gets great light in the morning and the window has a nice view of a common area.”

Ignite Portland 4 is coming! Thursday, November 13 at the Bagdad at Legion of Tech

Via the Legion of Tech blog “Ignite Portland 4 will take place on Thursday, November 13, at the Bagdad Theater. You can find more details (like the talk lineup, etc.) over at http://www.igniteportland.com. Tickets went AMAZINGLY fast, but you can still come – we kept plenty of space for general admission.”

Jive Software Powers Premiere Global Services’ New Software Developer Community

Via Jive “Jive Software, the pure-play collaboration software leader, today announced that Premiere Global Services (NYSE:PGI) selected Clearspace Community to power its recently launched software developer community, PGiConnect. Premiere Global is a provider of on-demand, communication technologies-based business process improvement solutions with a customer base of more than 50,000 companies, including nearly 95% of the Fortune 500.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for November 05

Rick Turoczy on November 6, 2008

Blogs change layoff dynamic at startups – Silicon Forest

Mike Rogoway writes “On the scale of tech layoffs in Oregon or anywhere else, Jive’s cuts don’t rate. No more than three-dozen people lost their jobs. Compare that to the 1,400 folks who got tossed out by Hynix (and, as far as I can tell, didn’t merit so much as a pixel of sympathy from the NYTimes or CNET.) Here’s my theory…”

AboutUs Hires Six New Staff, Including CFO – Jobwire

Via the ReadWriteWeb Jobwire “Wiki style website-directory AboutUs.org has just hired a new Chief Financial Officer, the company tells us. CFO Jack Williamson comes last from domain name auction house Snapnames, where AboutUs founding CEO Ray King worked previously. “

Social Network Spaghetti | Portland Web Innovators at Vidoop

Amber Case writes “Scott Kveton told us where he thinks we are with the state of current social networks. His charisma and ability to explain and parse complex ideas, systems, and trends was interesting and enjoyable to watch. I estimate around 30+ people showed up, and many interesting questions were raised from the audience.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for November 04

Rick Turoczy on November 5, 2008

Refresh Portland: Experience Design: 
Changing Lives and Creating Evangelists (November 12)

Via Refresh Portland “Transformative experiences do not happen thru marketing, “purple cows” or aesthetic design. They are created by changing lives thru authentic and meaningful Experience Design.”

Looking forward to a “wiki-presidency”

Via the AboutUs blog “No matter who wins in the elections tomorrow, it’s becoming pretty clear that technology will be a priority for the next administration. As wiki and community-collaborated content enthusiasts, we’ve been impressed with the embracing of wiki and wiki-like values in the campaigns.”

Oregonian election front page

The Oregonian announces the new president.

In a Twitter Age, Even Bad News Like Layoffs Is on the Company Blog

Via The New York Times “Some companies that have skipped the layoff post have suffered. After Jive Software cut 20 percent of its staff, one of the terminated employees, Chris Kalani, called it an ‘all out massacre’ on his personal blog and said he had been forced to leave behind his things, including his wedding photo. Tech blogs immediately picked up the story.”

Didn’t Get a Ticket? You Can Still Come to Ignite Portland 4 at Ignite Portland

Via the Ignite Portland blog “This morning, we announced that 550 free tickets for Ignite Portland 4 were available. Less than 3.5 hours later, they were all spoken for. That’s amazingly fast! To give you an idea, it took 2 months for 400 people to reserve a spot at Ignite Portland 1. For IP2, 400 spots went in 2 days. Ignite Portland 3 moved 400 tickets in under 22 hours. This time, 550 tickets disappeared in under 3.5 hours. Wow. You’d think people are excited to come, or something.”

Yes We Did – Waxy.org

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OEN Webinar – Getting Social 101: Quick and easy ways to get your social media bearings

Join Rick Turoczy as he shares some quick tips on how to start participating in social media, getting your bearings, and understanding how you can become a valued member of communities that match your startup’s goals.

Yes we did.

Chris O’Rourke writes “We all did, every single American, all of us. From the depths of Southern Georgia to Northernmost Alaska, from Allentown, PA to Santa Clara, CA. Americans rose up and voted their hearts, their dreams and their minds.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 31

Rick Turoczy on October 31, 2008

Open Source Bridge: Our First Presentation

Via the Open Source Bridge blog “The Open Source Bridge team gave their first presentation to a large group at CubeSpace on October 30, 2008. Enthusiasm far exceeded my expectations, and I came away feeling confident that we’re going to make Open Source Bridge a reality together.”

Thrive – PDX at Kells Irish Restaurant & Pub (Tuesday November 11, 2008) – Upcoming

We want to open dialogue between all members of the tech community – corporate & indie, young & old, geek & nerd – to help figure out how we build a community that will survive & thrive during this economic downturn.

Standalone Applications with CouchDB – Daytime Running Lights

Chris Anderson writes “Over the last few days I’ve polished up my notion that CouchDB can be a perfectly viable application host, all on its own, without any 3rd tier between database and client. That is, CouchDB is capable of serving standalone applications. These standalone CouchDB applications can be deployed to any working CouchDB node and used from any browser.”

Get Naked

Via Needmore Designs “We just wrapped up production on our submission for Do Something for a Cause, a calendar fundraiser featuring Portland media/tech folks baring their flesh to bring community awareness and raise funds for local charities and educational groups. This year’s recipients include p:ear and girls inc, among others. I know they are still looking for a couple more participants and sponsors, so please do let them know if you’d be interested in helping out!”

Keeping a Large Scale Open Source Conference in Portland

Amber Case writes “We have everything in Portland. We have Linus, we have biking, we have Open Source, and we have an amazing Portland Tech community. Up until recently, we also had O’Reilly’s OSCON.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 29

Rick Turoczy on October 29, 2008

Alltop – Top Bacon News

Alltop features all the Bacon news and headlines from across the web, a topic near and dear to many a Portlander heart.

One year later… the future of mobile looks even better

Via the Strands blog “This year in mobile has been an exciting one, but what the future will bring is even more exciting. In fact, the future is today: with so many possibilities open to developers to build cool services for iPhone, Nokia (S60), BlackBerry and soon Android, the future for mobile users looks great. And we will be making some great announcements soon. Stay tuned!”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 28

Rick Turoczy on October 28, 2008

Shizzow Blog · Trick or Treat, Shizzow Style

Via the Shizzow blog “We thought it would be fun to do some trick or treating using Shizzow. Since we’re too old to wander the neighborhoods knocking on doors for free candy, we decided to have our own trick or treat party (costumes are optional). Here’s how it works…”

OpenID usability is not an oxymoron | FactoryCity

Chris Messina writes “Monday last week marked the first ever OpenID UX Summit at Yahoo! in Sunnyvale with over 40 in attendance. Representatives came from MySpace, Facebook, Google, Yahoo!, Vidoop, Janrain, Six Apart, AOL, Chimp, Magnolia, Microsoft, Plaxo, Netmesh, Internet 2 and Liberty Alliance to debate and discuss how best to make implementations of the protocol easier to use and more familiar.”

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