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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 25

Rick Turoczy on August 25, 2008

Hazelnut Tech Talk Episode 8 | An Interview with Sarah Lacy in Portland, Oregon | Hazelnut Tech Talk

Sarah Lacy takes the time to sit down with Amber Case and Bram Pitoyo for the latest Hazelnut Tech Talk. If you missed the Sarah Lacy tweetup on Sunday, this will give you a good feel for what you missed (complete with Green Dragon background noise).

WordCamp Portland: How Has WordPress Changed Your Life? « Lorelle on WordPress

Lorelle VanFossen writes “The agenda of speakers for WordCamp Portland is out and I’m the keynote speaker. And I need your help. I will be talking about how WordPress is changing lives, not just from the blogging experience but truly changing your life from stem to stern. WordPress and WordPress.com free blogs give a voice to those who may never have had the chance to express themselves. With WordPress, they have the chance to be heard. I want to honor those people.”

Interview with JanRain on OpenID

An extensive interview with the JanRain folks on some of the finer points of OpenID

Portland Happy Hours on Your Google Homepage

Julian Chadwick writes “I had breakfast with Bryan of UrbanDrinks yesterday and he showed me something that might change your life. For those of you who use an iGoogle homepage (and the rest of you who will–you can only resist them so long), UrbanDrinks has created a Portland happy-hour Google ‘gadget.'”

Young Millionaires – Entrepreneur.com

Jive Software’s Matt Tucker and Bill Lynch are featured as “young millionaires” in Entrepreneur magazine.

Strange Love: strange love episode: shizzow!

Shizzow shouts from the Strange Love Live couch.

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 22

Rick Turoczy on August 22, 2008

OEN PubTalk – Becoming “socially” responsible: Understanding your company’s role in the world of social media

I feel really lucky to get the chance to ask a bunch of Portland social media heavyweights some questions at an upcoming OEN Pub Talk. “From Facebook to blogging to Twitter, it seems that social media is everywhere, as is the pressure to participate in this burgeoning “Web 2.0” world. It’s no wonder that every business is contemplating how—and why—they should be involved. Join OEN and its social media panel to gain a deeper understanding of social media, its benefits, and its potential pitfalls. We’ll share the rules of the road and etiquette for entrepreneurs and companies interested in participating in these online communities.”

Gnomedex in Three Days | A Social Media Journey

Amber Case writes “I’ll be live-tweeting, podcasting, and blogging from the event. That is, if there is any time between meeting and greeting amazing people.”

I Have An Idea To Bring PDX Tech Community Together

I really like the idea that Jason Harris came up with while sitting at Gnomedex. Jason writes “Why don’t we start a PDX job shadowing effort? The shadows could be either for a full day, half a day, or just a couple of hours. Two people who are paired for a shadowing could meet either at one’s office or a coffee shop, or whatever.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 21

Rick Turoczy on August 21, 2008

Cloud Four Designs Mobile Wall Street Journal : Cloud Four

Via the Cloud Four blog “We’re pleased to announce the Mobile Wall Street Journal launched today. This application was developed by FreeRange Communications and the user interface was designed by Cloud Four.”

The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The (Silicon Forest) Galaxy Extensis Blog – Font Management, Digital Asset Management and Creative Info

Via the Extensis blog “In 2003 a graduate student at Portland State University collected data about companies in our area and discovered Intel and Tektronix were sort of the “Kevin Bacon” figures on the local scene-if you went back far enough it all came down to one or the other…. Why am I going on about a poster from 2003? Because five years later it has been updated and just like last time we are totally on the list!”

Strands Community Blog, YourStrands, Strandups

Via the Strands blog “Some new great things for the Strands community. An awesome new community blog, the YourStrands show, and Strandups!”

Follow Gnomedex 8.0 on FriendFeed

There are a bunch of Portland types up in Seattle at Gnomedex, right now, so it was nice to see our own Josh Bancroft set up a room on FriendFeed to monitor the event. Josh writes “Turns out there’s already official Gnomedex 8.0 room, but this one will have lots of chatter from Twitter, FriendFeed, etc.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 20

Rick Turoczy on August 20, 2008

Mobile Portland: Mobile Insecurity

Data and identity theft due to mobile phone theft and vulnerabilities are rising concerns. However, with both businesses and developers mobile security usually takes a back seat to features, convenience and time-to-market. Ken Westin, the Founder and CTO of GadgetTrak, will lead a spirited discussion touching on mobile security and privacy.

A Fundraising Survival Guide

Paul Graham writes “Raising money is the second hardest part of starting a startup. The hardest part is making something people want: most startups that die, die because they didn’t do that. But the second biggest cause of death is probably the difficulty of raising money. Fundraising is brutal.”

Hopping On the Bus to Gnomedex! « Techcraver.com | Craving tech, craving life!

Jason Harris writes “This weekend, the best social media/web culture conference of the year, Gnomedex gets underway in Seattle. For those of you unaware, Gnomedex is a 2-day social media conference hosted by Chris and Ponzi Pirillo. This conference is not driven by a corporate message, rather it’s just a bunch of geeks getting together to talk about our craft(s) and geek out.”

Free MusicFest NW Wristbands From Strands.com | “Portland Centric” « Portland Music, Art, Events, Entertainment, Sustainability | PDX PIPELINE

Julian Chadwick writes “Luckily, I was able to meet up with Heather of Strands.com this week. Lucky for you that is because Strands is giving away MusicFest NW wristbands–those are like $50…all because we/they love you.”

“We’ve” been listening to you! | Oregon Media Insiders

Oregon Media Insiders elicits a string of comments after mentioning oregonlive.com’s pending redesign “So, the Big O has been listening to us – and are preparing a re-launch of the website. Of course, they’re getting the re-launch after several other newspapers in the chain get the makeover. The good news: it looks different. The bad news: it looks the same.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 19

Rick Turoczy on August 19, 2008

Kryptiq picks up Portland company – Silicon Forest – The Oregonian – OregonLive.com

Mike Rogoway writes “Hillsboro-based Kryptiq says this morning it has purchased a small Portland company called Secure Network Solutions.”

Yet Another Cool Digital Newspaper Product: Get The Wall Street Journal, For Free, On Your BlackBerry

Via Silicon Valley Insider highlights a new mobile product that has some deep Portland ties. “Yes, newspapers are screwed. But that isn’t stopping some of them from coming up with some really interesting digital projects. So far we’ve seen the New York Times release a slew of cool gizmos and gadgets. But the Wall Street Journal’s Mobile Reader is easily our favorite to date.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 18

Rick Turoczy on August 18, 2008

The Road Show To Gnomedex

Via the iterasi blog “Come join iterasi as we travel on a converted school bus from Portland’s verdant valley to the maritime climate of Seattle for Gnomedex, arguably the best geek event you will ever find. Check out our Facebook page for the full details.”

Geek Fair 2008! Portland, OR | Portland Octopus

Via Portland Octopus “On Saturday, August 23, Free Geek Community Technology Center will celebrate eight years of operation with a Street Party. Geek Fair 2008 Is a free event for all ages.”

Techpaulogy: Clearspace just took enterprise collaboration to a whole new level – hello 2.5

Suspend your disbelief about the fact that Paul Biggs needs to get out more as he states “I am so excited. Hunkered down here at the Jive HQ (Club Fed), our whole team has been cranking like never before. Engineering, Marketing, Product, Sales, you name it — everyone has been heads down building, testing, re-mixing, and giving feedback on our Clearspace platform.”

Twitter Sniffer for Brands at Fast Wonder Blog: Consulting, Online Communities, and Social Media

Dawn Foster writes “I’ve found that many of the Twitter search services are unreliable, and they return different results when searched. Even Twitter’s own search misses some tweets. This pipe currently combines three separate Twitter search engines into one result with duplicates filtered out and everything sorted by date.”

Portland Ignites Gnomedex at Josh Bancroft’s TinyScreenfuls.com

Josh Bancroft writes “The coolest thing about all of this? The idea for Ignite Portland was hatched at last year’s Gnomedex. They highlighted some of the previous evening’s Ignite Seattle talks, and I loved them. The energy and excitement were off the charts, and I immediately started thinking (and Twitter-ing) about how awesome it would be to do an Ignite event in Portland. Connections and plans were made, venues were filled to capacity, Legion of Tech was born, and the rest, as they say, is history.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 17

Rick Turoczy on August 17, 2008

Learning To Live With Less: Constraints, Rules And Web Startups

From Silicon Alley Insider “I believe web services benefit from doing less, not more. I believe that allowing the users to stitch web apps together to get increased functionality is better than a web service trying to do everything for everyone.”

OregonStartups.com News: Your Idea is wrong – But Go for it Anyway

Steve Morris writes “Our experience at OTBC is similar. In the FastTrac® TechVenture® program we ran in the spring, roughly 70% of the participants significantly changed their business idea, or completely abandoned it for another idea.”

Vimeo AIR App Coming Soon? – ReadWriteWeb

Corvida thinks that Vimeo, the video-sharing service with a Portland tie, may be working on an AIR app. “If an AIR application does come down the pipeline, we’re sure Vimeo users will be happy video campers. The description does enough to hint at a possible AIR app in the future and tons more. Vimeo users may also see some site changes and additions in the near future too if developers with these skillsets are signed on. Here’s to hoping that a Vimeo AIR app comes soon!”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 15

Rick Turoczy on August 15, 2008

Personal Telco gets some ink

Via the Personal Telco blog “The Willamette Week gave us some space in their ‘How to Live Cheap in Portland’ piece this week. I think it does a good job on the ‘modelling good behavior’ front and not being too much “these dudes will sprinkle the magic pixie dust on you (and give you free stuff)” that we sometimes see.”

Location Based Services: How is Shizzow Unique?

Jason Harris writes “Shizzow has one thing going for it: it knows business names, not just addresses. This is useful because I may want to broadcast that I’m at Starbucks on 4th street, but most LBS services will say, “Jason is as 214 4th Avenue”. Having the business name makes it easier for my friends to find me.”

Across the Wikiverse

Steven Walling writes “WikiWednesday is a meeting of all wiki folk on (usually) the first Wednesday of every month. As some of you may know, Portland has its very own WikiWednesday, hosted by AboutUs. For most of its history, it has been organized primarily through a Google group. But now, thanks to bountiful generosity of Ward Cunningham in providing the subdomain, we now have a wiki of our own at pdx.wiki.org.”

The DNS Bug: Why You Should Care

Via Linux Journal “Yes, the bug is that bad. Everyone should be paying attention to this one. Fortunately, most of the big sites out there have been patched, for now. But the current patch only buys us some time, it doesn’t actually fix the real problem.”

Blog Action Day 2008: Unite for Poverty by COLOURlovers

Via the COLOURlovers blog “Global issues like poverty are extremely complex. There is no simple, clear answer. By asking thousands of different people to give their viewpoints and opinions, Blog Action Day creates an extraordinary lens through which to view these issues. Each blogger brings their own perspective and ideas. Each blogger posts relating to their own blog topic. And each blogger engages their audience differently.”

Location Sharing Options (The response to the “What makes Shizzow unique?” post above)

Audrey Eschright writes “This week Portland added a new service to the location tracking options available. It’s called Shizzow, and it does a neat job of addressing the local Twitter crowd’s desire to see not just what others are doing, but where they’re hanging out (so we can stop by). I’ve been seeing a lot of people asking ‘How is this different than other services?’, and since I’m using most of them, here’s how things stack up for me.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 14

Rick Turoczy on August 14, 2008

Linux Plumbers Conference 2008 – Early Bird discount ends soon

The registration fee for Linux Plumbers Conference is $250 until August 18th, when it will increase to $300. Speakers get free registration and speakers who register before accepted talks are announced will have their registration fee refunded in full.

Want to Vote on my SXSW Panel Proposals?

Dawn Foster writes “I’ve proposed two panels for SXSW this year. If you are interested in these topics, want to see me speak, or want to get me into the conference for free, you should vote for one or both of these sessions :-)”

U.S. court confirms open source license legitimacy

Via The 451 Group blog “There was a major open source legal development this week and surprisingly, it did not involve the string of BusyBox lawsuits, which included settlement from mobile and telecom giant Verizon in March 2008. Instead, the latest open source victory involves a federal appeals court ruling that basically upholds the idea and enforcement of ‘copyleft.’”

COLOURlovers @ Create Chaos Conference

Darius Monsef writes “The creative conference Create Chaos has invited me to come and speak about color trends… and since I love color and the idea of creating a bit of chaos… I’ve agreed. If you might be in the Orlando area mid-October or were looking for a creative conference to attend this year, come on down and join us. (If people are interested we could organize a COLOURlovers get together around the conference too.)”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 13

Rick Turoczy on August 13, 2008

Zapproved: A Lightweight Decision Making App

Marshall Kirkpatrick writes “Want to go to fewer meetings at work? By making group decision making faster, easier and more accountable, new app Zapproved may help you avoid hours of painful face to face drudgery or endless email loose ends and get back to work. Zapproved is a lightweight hosted decision making service, it’s essentially like Evite for approval processes.”

Platial Testing Out Ads on Frappr

Via the Platial blog “We thought it was about time to see if we could support ourselves with some minimal Frappr advertising. For this test we’re just advertising our own iPhone app. Please let us know what you think. We’re close to being able to let you opt-out of the ads as well.”

Seattle VC firms Maveron and Voyager Capital venture southward » VentureBeat

Via Venturebeat “Meanwhile, Voyager Capital has made moves to the south, as well, bringing on a new partner, Diane Fraiman (right), to open an office in Portland, Oregon and adding another, Daniel Ahn, as a managing director of its franchise in Menlo Park, Calif. — home of the big Silicon Valley venture capital firms.”

In which Verso has a Lunch (2.0) date

Verso writes “Earlier today I happened to be reading my friend Rick Turoczy’s blog and imagine my surprise when he offered to buy me lunch! Well having had a good experience last time I had lunch with Rick I figured I would be foolish to pass up his offer. So off I went to CubeSpace and imagine my surprise when I saw a number of people there whom I recognized! Turns out Rick had extended his invite to a number of others as well, but somehow I had mistakenly read it as just for me.”

Portland Lunch 2.0 at Cube Space courtesy of Silicon Florist

Gary Pool writes “I had a great time at lunch today. It was called Lunch 2.0. We played networking games like meet someone you don’t know. I met some new friends and networked with some old ones. We shared some job related war stories and tall tales.”

Lunch 2.0: My Twitter-y Experience | Our PDX Network

Via OurPDX blog “In all of about 45 minutes I was able to put faces with names of people I already knew, and connect with them face to face outside of the Internets. There is one thing to be said for just walking up and talking to strangers at a networking event, but when you already know what goes on in their daily lives, it’s so much better.”

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