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Category: Links

Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 14

Rick Turoczy on October 14, 2008

 

SLL: An Interview with Oregoniansteve | Our PDX Network

Cami Kaos writes “But first, an introduction. I’m CamiKaos, and with my husband DrNormal as my co-host we record a weekly podcast. Strange Love Live is something we’ve been doing together for almost a year. It’s recorded right here in Portland every Friday night, and thanks to Betsy, I’m going to be posting a new episode here each week. “

WorthWorkingFor | Inspiring the Inspirers, and because work doesn’t always have to suck.

A new blog from Elliot Swan covering inspirational workspace designs.

Gail Ann Williams on Community from Love@First Website at Fast Wonder Blog: Consulting, Online Communities, and Social Media

Dawn Foster writes “I’m spending the morning at iSite’s Love@First Website Conference here in Portland. I was impressed with Gail Ann Williams’ presentation about building online community. She was an early participant at The WELL and is currently the Director of Communities at Salon.com. Here are my raw notes from Gail’s presentation. In other words these are my notes about her words (not my words), so hopefully, I managed to get most of it right with only a few typos.”

Coffee with Likemind, October 17th at 8am – Substance

Via the Substance blog “As the title states, it’s this Friday, October 17th at 8am. Stop in the Stumptown Ace (1026 SW Stark), grab your beverage, then make your way over to the lobby of the Ace Hotel to meet other likeminded folks.”

DrupalPDX November Meeting | groups.drupal.org

Via DrupalPDX “We’re now meeting at the offices of OpenSourcery at 711 SE Ankeny St. Portland, OR 97214. Steve Edwards will be doing a presentation on using Übercart to build e-commerce sites. After the meeting we’ll probably head to the Green Dragon for a food and drink.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 13

Rick Turoczy on October 13, 2008

A Field Guide To Coffee Shops Around Northwest Portland, Particularly The Pearl District Neighborhood

Bram Pitoyo writes “ut, first things first, let me clarify that this post serves to answer one question (and one question only): Which coffee shop is appropriate for which occasion? Now, having spent adequate time in various coffee shops around this area in specific, and Portland in general, I feel that I am able to identify some factors that are present in most, if not all of them.”

PortlandTechTwitter – AboutUs Wiki Page

From AboutUs “Portland is extremely well-represented on Twitter, the popular micro-blogging platform. The following is a list of some of the most interesting citizens in the Portland Twitterverse. Feel free to follow them, ask them for advice, or run into them at the many local Portland Tech Events.”

Last Chance to Submit Your Talk Ideas for IP4!

Via the Ignite Portland blog “There’s only 1.5 days left to get your Ignite Portland 4 talk idea submissions in. The window officially closes at 12:01 AM Wednesday 10/15 (that’s the hour after 11PM on Tuesday night 10/14, just to be clear). If you’ve got a talk idea you’d like to share on stage at Ignite Portland 4, now is the time to get it in.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 11

Rick Turoczy on October 11, 2008

Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey – Waxy.org

Andy Baio writes “With the help of del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter, we used a recommendation algorithm to score every blog on Memeorandum based on their linking activity in the last three months. Then I wrote a Greasemonkey script to pull that information out of Google Spreadsheets, and colorize Memeorandum on-the-fly. Left-leaning blogs are blue and right-leaning blogs are red, with darker colors representing strong biases. Check out the screenshot below, and install the Greasemonkey script or standalone Firefox extension to try it yourself.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 10

Rick Turoczy on October 10, 2008

GOSCON: Government Open Source Conf in PDX at Fast Wonder Blog: Consulting, Online Communities, and Social Media

Dawn Foster writes “I was just talking to Deb Bryant about the upcoming GOSCON event here in Portland Oct 20th – 23rd, and there are some very exciting things about the event. For anyone unfamiliar with GOSCON, it is focused on providing ‘forums to explore both the business case and real-world applications for open technology to deliver the next generation of government services.’ This is the fourth annual GOSCON event.”

Saturday Dinner and Hackathon – WhereCampPDX Blog

Via the WhereCamp PDX blog “After sessions on Saturday, the 18th, we’ll be heading over to Old Town Pizza for dinner and hacking. We’re asking attendees to RSVP and pre-pay for dinner with the form below. Join us to continue talking about ideas from the day’s sessions, and collaborate on projects.”

Shizzow Blog · Using Shizzow RSS: FriendFeed, Widgets, and More

Via the Shizzow blog “A few weeks ago, we turned the switch to make the RSS feeds for shouts publicly available. While we have a few people using them for something interesting, the rest of you slackers haven’t done squat with them. Here are a couple of ideas to get you started.”

Quick update | Oregon Blogs

Via the Oregon Blogs blog “There are at least 4 people looking at the codebase, including me. This is a good sign because, although it’s complex and feature rich, it’s relatively clean and Patrick (@plightbo) has graciously provided a script to grab the dependencies, meaning going from ‘broken’ to ‘not broken’ is relatively painless.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 08

Rick Turoczy on October 8, 2008

Tell a Story in Five Minutes or Less… | Our PDX Network

Betsy Richter reminds us “You have less than a week to submit your presentation idea for Ignite Portland 4! (Submissions are closing at midnight on 10/14; presenters will be announced on 10/20.)”

The Stumptown Redesign, Part One

Via Needmore “This is the first of several posts, in which we’re writing about our experiences redesigning the Stumptown Coffee Roasters website. This is an overview of the project as a whole, and some ideas we had and things we learned along the way.”

The Stumptown Redesign, Part Two

Via Needmore “This is day two of four, in which we’re writing about our experiences redesigning the Stumptown Coffee Roasters website. This is a description of ’round one’ of our site mockups, and some of the thought process behind them.”

It’s Here! Revelation Project Version 2 launches | Revelation

Via the Revelation blog “Revelation will always need to be able to adapt to respond to wherever our customers would take us. V1 had served us well, but we realized the imperative for this V2 release was to create a foundation that would let Revelation scale, adapt and grow.”

Breakfast Tweetup/Shizzup at Fuller’s Restaurant

Via Upcoming “The Portland community is one of the highest-ranked communities on Twitter. Those of us who’ve used the service have vastly expanded our connections, friendships, and experiences. However a lot of Portland Tech events happen in the evening.”

Three Billion Steps

Via the Walker Tracker blog “October 3rd marked crossing 3 billion collective steps. Now, that’s a long way from the 700 billion needed for the bailout – but were steps = dollars, we’d all be doing rather nicely! And indeed, I would claim that we’re all a bit better off for it.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 07

Rick Turoczy on October 7, 2008

Discovering Portland’s Tech Community by Analog and by Twitter | Hazelnut Tech Talk

Amber Case writes “Thankfully, I’m going to have a greater ability to show the world how amazing Portland is. Beginning November 1st, I’ll be blogging for the Discovery Channel –> on Portland. Hopefully I can do it justice. Please don’t hesitate to point out my inefficiencies, writing incapabilities, and lack of refined blogging skills along the way. The Silicon Forest has amazing voices already, I only hope to approximate a percentage of their awesomeness.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 06

Rick Turoczy on October 6, 2008

Don’t Make Your Blog an OpenID Provider

Aaron Hockley writes “One of the new features in Will’s plugin is the ability for a WordPress blog to act as an OpenID provider. I know there’s some logic behind this feature, but it’s not for Joe Blow with a Blog to take over the word as yet another provider. My buddy Adam wrote a piece at Webmonkey titled Make Your Blog an OpenID Provider, but I respectfully disagree with that proposition.”

Reflections: Notes from Running WordCamp Portland

And Aaron Hockley writes this as well “Last Saturday was WordCamp Portland the first WordPress blogging conference in Oregon. I led a team of volunteers to produce and manage the event, based somewhat on other WordCamps I’ve read about along with other tech events in our area. This is a writeup on some things to consider for other similar events.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 05

Rick Turoczy on October 5, 2008

WhereCampPDX: Location, location, location

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.”

Oct 1st 2008 stats for myOpenID.com

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.”

Wi-Fi antennas will winter in Oregon – Silicon Forest

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.”

WordPress OpenID v3.0

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.”

Obama ’08 iPhone App Launch Party and Presidential Debate Party

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.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 02

Rick Turoczy on October 2, 2008

Zappos.com exec to speak at OSU

Via OregonLive “In fewer than 10 years, Zappos.com has gone from an upstart company to the top internet shoe seller and is forecast to generate $1 billion in sales in 2008. The Zappos.com stocks 3 million pairs of shoes, handbags, apparel and accessories, specializing in more than 1,000 brands that are difficult to find in mainstream shopping malls.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 01

Rick Turoczy on October 1, 2008

OpenID Content Provider Advisory Committee Kickoff Meeting

Via the OpenID blog “A couple of weeks ago the BBC hosted twenty-six people from seventeen organizations including eight OpenID Providers and eight OpenID Relying Parties (sites which accept OpenID logins) in New York City to kick off an OpenID Content Provider Advisory Committee. The goal of the session was to answer specific questions by the Content Provider community (media companies and national affinity groups) as well as to provide feedback to the OpenID Foundation, its member companies, and the wider community on the future direction of OpenID.”

Flickr’s new iPhone web interface = AWESOME (with screenshots!) at Josh Bancroft’s TinyScreenfuls.com

Josh Bancroft writes “Saw word from John “Daring Fireball” Gruber tonight that Flickr finally launched an iPhone optimized web interface. Finally!”

Google Blogsearch Relaunches as Techmeme Killer, Across 11 Categories – ReadWriteWeb

Marshall Kirkpatrick writes “In its first major upgrade ever, Google Blogsearch just relaunched and looks radically different. Instead of the blank page look of Google.com, Blogsearch now looks like Google News (but uglier) – with the hottest topics from the blogosphere aggregated on the front page. Readers can drill down in 11 different categories, from technology, business, sports and entertainment. Google says you can use Blogsearch to see what the world is talking about.”

OSCON moves to San Jose – O’Reilly Radar

Via O’Reilly Radar “Clearly Portland was good for OSCON, but at the same time, we move most of our conferences every few years, to allow new local communities and organizations to participate and to provide new activities for non-local attendees. And while every conference planner likes to see yearly growth as a sign of a healthy conference, it’s a challenge to find space for 3000 people plus a projected growth of ~20% (based on previous years). The largest available keynote space at the Oregon Convention Center (the largest conference facility in Oregon) holds approximately 2500 people in our current layout (with a stage and airwall space to divide into smaller rooms for day sessions), and has an absolute maximum limit of 3600 people.”

Warehouse is now open source

Via the ENTP blog “After a long vacation, we’ve decided to release Warehouse as open source. The fact is, we (and most of our target audience) moved from subversion to git or mercurial. Also, the Logical Awesome guys scare us. First, there’s their kick ass git commit browser out there that embodies the spirit of git exceptionally well. Then, they prove that they can do Subversion hosting better than us. Yikes.”

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