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Rick Turoczy on August 12, 2008

AboutUs page count tops 12 million

Via the AboutUs blog “Back in February, I posted that AboutUs pagecount tops 11 million*. At the time, our statistics page was broken so there was nothing to link to. Now it’s fixed, sort of. We still don’t have a way to filter out stubs, personal pages or meta pages.”

My Big Changes at DuVinci

Adam DuVander writes “I want to help others create on the Web. There are designers with great skills who want to learn to program. And there are bright business owners who can’t execute on their ideas. I believe anyone can learn to program. I’m looking forward to proving that.”

Substance at SXSW – Substance

Via the Substance blog “We’re really excited about the ideas for the presentation, but first we need your help. If you’d be so kind as to visit the SXSW Interactive Panel Picker (here’s a direct link to our presentation), register, and give our presentation a high star rating, we’d sincerely appreciate it (you have until August 29th to voice your opinion). And if there’s specific stuff you’d like us to cover in the presentation as it pertains to the session description, please leave it in the comments. Thanks in advance, and we hope to see you in Austin in 2009.”

PDX Critique at CubeSpace (Monday August 25, 2008)

PDX Critique meets once a month to share feedback on works in progress. Please see our website for details on how to sign up to show your work.

Listen (If You Wanna Know a Secret) – ClickZ

What’s becoming clear, especially for marketers, is that ignoring the conversation of your audience is hazardous. You miss things. Big things, like well-connected customers upset about things you could probably fix and capitalize on if only you knew about them. Jive Software CMO Sam Lawrence summed it up like this: “When Marketing can feel comfortable becoming listeners instead of blasting sales messages, dramatic change ensues.”

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Rick Turoczy on August 10, 2008

Who Loves You, Baby?

Michelle “mediachick” Anderson writes “Last night I spent a couple of hours at Beer and Blog, a weekly get-together for those of us in Portland, Oregon. The premise: Bloggers helping bloggers over beer. We usually meet at the Green Dragon (who love us). Sometimes we work together, and sometimes there is a specific (and tasty) topic of discussion. Suffice to say, it’s a popular event among local bloggers, and when you have a popular local blogger/author/startup entrepreneur leading the discussion, you can be sure lots of people will show up.”

Beer and Blog – Narrative Techniques For Blogging: An Event Review « Link En Fuego

Bram Pitoyo writes “Beer and Blog is undoubtedly the best way to meet members of this growing [Portland tech] community in an informal, relaxed environments—if by ‘informal’ and ‘relaxed’ you mean ‘meeting local Tweeters and bloggers that you followed and subscribed to 24/7, but could only see in 48×48 pixel avatars.'”

Recent OpenID vulnerabilities | The Vidoop Blog

Scott Kveton “We have evaluated our myVidoop OpenID provider and have determined it is not vulnerable to this attack. Additionally, based on your feedback we have updated our SSL certificate on myVidoop.com to support secure redirection for identity URL’s (for example, going to https://username.myvidoop.com by default as an increased measure of security).”

Social Media: A Different Approach for Businesses at Fast Wonder Blog: Consulting, Online Communities, and Social Media

Dawn Foster writes “Jeremiah Owyang’s recent post about The Many Challenges of the Social Media Industry got me thinking about how social media requires a different approach from the way that many companies approach traditional marketing or customer engagement. Jeremiah’s post seems to be more targeted at companies whose main products and services are based on social media, but I’m going to take some of the ideas that he discusses and outline how they can be applied to companies using social media as part of their strategy for engaging with customers or communities or users.”

2009 SXSW Interactive Panel Picker

Welcome to the Panel Picker voting interface. This web application gives you the power to browse all programming proposals and give us your feedback on which ideas you think are most appropriate for the SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 13-17, 2009 in Austin, Texas). You will need to create an account to begin voting.

Tapping into the collective intelligence

Janet Lee Johnson writes “I’ve been fortunate lately, learning the Art of RSS Mixology from Marshall Kirkpatrick, in one of his last extended consulting contracts before he begins writing for ReadWriteWeb full time. Marshall is an RSS and ‘market intelligence systems’ (I like that phrase) guru who’s helping me figure out how to efficiently and completely monitor the social web – including forums, social networks and the blogosphere – for the Academic Network and one of their large pharmaceutical clients.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 07

Rick Turoczy on August 7, 2008

Meet us in Portland (tonight & tomorrow night!) | TeachStreet Blog

Via the TeachStreet blog “And, on Friday night, we’ll be swinging by the Beer and Blog event, from 4-6 pm at the Green Dragon Bistro & Brewpub — address info for that here.”

Voyager expanding in Portland – Portland Business Journal:

“We expect to invest in two companies a year in the Portland market,” Benson said. “We’ll probably do one more later this year in Oregon,” which for Voyager’s purposes, could include Vancouver and Camas, just over the river in Washington State.

Melissa from Back Fence PDX will share narrative techniques for blogging at Beer and Blog

Via the Beer and Blog blog “[T]his week we’re going to hear from Melissa Lion of Back Fence PDX fame who will be sharing some narrative techniques that can be applied to blogging. If you haven’t had the good fortune to meet Melissa yet, here’s some background about her from her site”

BlinkGeo » The Geospatial Social Network: Will It Stick?

Via the BlinkGeo blog “If you haven’t had a chance to check it out, I encourage you to take a look at the Geospatial Professionals social network on Ning. Last week, the network grew from 5 members to 22…small by most standards, yet if the network continues to grow at that rate it may well be on its way to being a viable network.”

Will BlogHer ‘09 happen in PDX? | Our PDX Network

Well done, Portland! A thousand thanks for the effort. “BlogHer has closed the poll after receiving thousands of votes. The top three contenders are Portland, St. Louis, and Philadelphia. BlogHer’s conference organizers will now begin the task of locating a venue, hotels, ensuring the space fits the conference’s needs, and so on.” P.S. St. Louis is like the Portland of the Midwest, so if they get it will be like we got it. Almost.

Blog Off!

Via Portland Mercury’s Blogtown PDX “Call me a geek, but I’m really very excited about this: August 18-22, the Portland Water Bureau and the Oregon Trail Chapter of the American Red Cross are having a BLOG OFF to see which is the best!”

Relax, Bloggers: Nobody Is Keeping Score, and There’s No Quota.

Louis Gray writes “Unfortunately for many of us who participate in the tech blogging space, there are many examples of blogs or individuals who can crank out more than one post a day, every single day. There are examples of people who seemingly offer strong content with every article. And there are also the uber-connected, who are seemingly ever-present in a wide variety of social networks, always seem to get to things before you do, and are ‘ahead’ in every statistic, be it number of contacts, comments, or posts. And this doesn’t even begin to take into account the professional multi-author blogs, run like an assembly line.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 06

Rick Turoczy on August 6, 2008

An Email Address Is A Person, Too?

From the ma.gnolia blog “Recently, there’s been a grassroots effort to enable email addresses as OpenIDs using a protocol called Email Address to URL Translation (EAUT). Using EAUT, sites that let people sign in with OpenID (called relying parties) can accept email addresses in the OpenID url field, and go out to their email address provider and try to find the OpenID associated with that email address.”

Developer Preview: Identity In The Browser – IDIB | The Vidoop Blog

Via the Vidoop blog “So today we’re excited to offer a preliminary look at the Developer Preview release of our identity in the browser Firefox extension called IDIB. We’re releasing this as open source and looking forward to beginning an ongoing dialogue to determine what this functionality should look like and how it should behave. And above all, how it can begin to make OpenID more user-friendly and account-driven activities on the web more secure.”

Mashups: Firefox May Go OAuth, Twitter Apps To Stop Asking for Your Password – ReadWriteWeb

Marshall Kirkpatrick writes “As of this afternoon there’s a developer preview of a browser-based OpenID implementation for Firefox (thanks Vidoop!) so we hope that an OAuth implementation for Firefox could be a complimentary project.”

Sizing up Oregon’s startup scene – Silicon Forest – The Oregonian – OregonLive.com

Mike Rogoway writes “Chuck Sheketoff from the Oregon Center for Public Policy wrote to challenge my wording in today’s story on Voyager Capital’s new Portland office.”

Iovation Names Former Novell VP to Board

Via Northwest Innovation “Iovation, a publisher of online fraud and abuse prevention software, reported Wednesday that it has appointed former Novell executive Chris Stone to its board of directors. “

Can We Bring BlogHer to Portland? at Fast Wonder Blog: Consulting, Online Communities, and Social Media

Dawn Foster writes “With rumors of OSCON moving to the Bay Area, it would be great to see BlogHer come to Portland! All you need to do to bring BlogHer to Portland is to vote!”

Platial News and Neogeography: They Like Us! They Like Us!

Via the Platial blog “We are extremely honored and flattered to see ourselves on the iTunes app store ‘Staff Favorites’ list today. Wow!”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 05

Rick Turoczy on August 5, 2008

 

Hazelnut Tech Talk Episode 5 | An Interview with Toonlet

From the Oak Hazelnut blog “Our fifth episode features Craig Schwartz from toonlet, wherein we talked about how the web bubble burst helped form FooCamp, why San Fransiscans are dastardly good at spotting werewolfs, history and future of the button, BlackBerry camp, ribs breakage due to excessive laughter, online comic that shares the same spirit with SPORE, and text adventures built on HyperCard.”

CD Baby sold to NJ-based company | Our PDX Network

From Our PDX “Yesterday, Derek Sivers, founder of CD Baby, posted on his blog that the company was being sold to Disc Makers. This seems to be the final step in Sivers’ transition that started over a year ago when he announced he hadn’t been involved in the day-to-day at CD Baby for months.” (Hat tip Nino Marchetti)

WebTrends CFO moves to Jive – Silicon Forest

Mike Rogoway writes “I don’t know anything about LeBlanc’s motivations for moving, but when someone leaves an established company for a young, promising one, it’s sometimes emblematic of a generational shift within a local industry.”

Tantalizing hints from Voyager Capital’s Portland office – Silicon Forest – The Oregonian – OregonLive.com

Mike Rogoway is on a roll. Another great post and the promise of more information in tomorrow’s dead-tree edition of The Oregonian. Mike writes “Among the forces that attracted Voyager to Oregon, they said, is that startups and entrepreneurs are increasingly moving to Portland from the East Coast, Silicon Valley and elsewhere. The migrants are attracted by the city’s base of high-tech talent, its low cost of doing business (at least relative to Seattle and the Bay Area), and by our months and months of clouds and rain. (What they said, actually, was ‘quality of life.’)”

Enterprise UI Summit

Jive Software hosts the Enterprise UI Summit in Aspen. “The Enterprise UI Summit is an exclusive, invitation-only event for the most innovative UI and UX designers and big companies in the world. The event is a think tank meant to address ‘the UI for the Enterprise.’ It will host top UI and UX Designers as well as big companies like SAP, Adobe, Google and more. This small group will share trends, standards, problems and ideas on how to drive a wholly new level of employee engagement through positive UI experience.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 04

Rick Turoczy on August 4, 2008

The Open Web Foundation, with Scott Kveton

From the Bungee Connect Developer blog “The Open Web Foundation was announced at OSCON 2008. Created by and endorsed by numerous highly influential individuals and organizations, the Open Web Foundation has also been received with a fair amount of skepticism. We speak to Scott Kveton, one of the key people involved in the organization’s establishment to learn more about the organization’s purpose, goals and near term objectives.”

Notes from a Mobile Encounter with James Whitley of GoLifeMobile | Hazelnut Tech Talk

Amber Case captures an interesting discussion with James Whitley, CEO of GoLife Mobile.

Personal Telco, your 15 minutes of fame await… « Our new mind

Pete Forsyth writes “I think Personal Telco needs a new ‘elevator pitch.’ Their web site, any printed materials, any contact with the press, etc. should reflect a very clear, very simple message: ‘our work brings you free wireless, and we’d love you to pitch in a little and help us deliver more free wireless.'”

TeachStreet expands into Portland | Our PDX Network

PAgent writes “Last time I looked, we were well into the 21st century. I hardly expect to see up-and-coming new dot-coms any more, much less any that are actually getting funding. Nevertheless, TeachStreet, an ‘instructional network and search engine’ has acquired $2.25 million in capital from the Madrona Venture Group this year. And now it’s coming to Portland.”

TeachStreet Expands: Helps You Find Local Teachers and Classes – ReadWriteWeb

Frederic Lardinois writes “Teachstreet today announced that it has expanded the reach of its network from Seattle, WA, to Portland, OR. TeachStreet is a marketplace where teachers can list classes they offer and allows them to connect with prospective students. The range of classes offered by teachers on the site range from bike maintenance to herpetology, with a good dose of various crafts, yoga, and music lessons thrown in for good measure. Right now, the site features close to 55,000 different classes and instructors.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 01

Rick Turoczy on August 1, 2008

6 Y Combinator Startups I Would Have Invested In Back Then

Dharmesh Shah writes “I have been tracking Y Combinator (a new kind of venture firm for early, early stage startups) for several years. They have a distinctive approach to the early-stage funding process and have funded some interesting companies. YC is in the news again because of Google’s recent acquisition of Omnisio, a YC investment.”

Silicon Swings and Silicon Roundabouts

Via the Test blog “ather than point out that the idea is not a new one, or shoot it down in flames, I thought I’d look at the idea from three perspectives – the people who might need a Tech-Hub, the people who might run it, and the people who might fund it. In my experience, its the overlaps and (more importantly) the differences between the needs of these three groups that most schemes like this don’t plan for, and find difficult to accommodate.” (Hat tip Michael Richardson)

Online Community Presentations

Dawn Foster writes “I’ve been doing a few presentations about online communities recently, and I finally got around to uploading a few of them to SlideShare. I thought people might be interested in seeing them.”

Portland 501 Tech Club/Net Tuesday: eNonprofit Benchmarks

An Analysis of Online Messaging, Fundraising and Advocacy Metrics for Nonprofit Organizations at AboutUs on August 26.

Startup: Vital signs of a young regional company

Vancouver-based Iterasi gets the startup spotlight in The Oregonian this week. “A personal Web archive that allows people to save Web pages on Iterasi’s server. The personal accounts can be searched and shared with others.”

Lots of Monkey business

My favorite “That’s a Portland company?” startup, SurveyMonkey, gets covered by the Portland Business Journal. “Their Pearl District office may be festooned with stuffed monkey dolls, a string of monkey lights, even a monkey-face door mat. But Chris and Ryan Finley aren’t monkeying around.”

Welcome to South by Southwest 2009

One, two, three… take advantage of the unique industry convergence at SXSW 2009. Maximize your experience by registering now.

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for July 31

Rick Turoczy on July 31, 2008

The Beer and Blog Schedule

Justin Kistner writes “Friends, we have been Beer and Blogging it since the beginning of the year. After almost 8 months, I think we finally have a predictable format. Here’s what I’m thinking we’ll do…”

Changes: I’m joining RWW full time as VP of Content Development…and I’m getting married!!! http://bit.ly/1FZugB woo hoo! – FriendFeed

Best Friendfeed comment and liking EVAR!

Marshall Kirkpatrick » Changes: I’m Joining RWW Full Time & Getting Married!

News from Marshall Kirkpatrick is so nice, I’m posting it twice.

louisgray.com: Where You Get Your Tech News Shapes Your Tech Views

Louis Gray writes “I just got off the phone with my friend Chris and we talked about how we hardly blog anymore. Also about how nothing seems that exciting in tech lately. It’s mostly about Google and the iPhone over and over. Are we just cynical or have things quieted down considerably?”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for July 30

Rick Turoczy on July 30, 2008

Building the Web 2.0 enterprise – The McKinsey Global Survey Results are out

Via the Jama Software blog “Not surprising, companies are using more Web 2.0 tools and technologies now than they were last year. The latest survey results from The McKinsey Quarterly on “Building the Web 2.0 Enterprise” illustrate the growing investments in Web 2.0 technologies.”

Seattle VC opens Portland office, names local partner – Silicon Forest – The Oregonian – OregonLive.com

Mike Rogoway writes “Seattle VC firm Voyager Capital is moving its Hillsboro office to downtown Portland, and will name former Tektronix exec Diane Fraiman partner to run the office.”

Who will build the open source cloud?

Via The 451 Group blog “I wrote recently about the potential of open source software as a platform for cloud computing. Since then I’ve been involved in a couple of conversations with prospective cloud users that have further highlighted the opportunity for an open source cloud.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for July 29

Rick Turoczy on July 29, 2008

Geospatial Networking on Ning

Via the BlinkGeo blog “Call it visionary if you will (or perhaps just a 5 minute online detour I took a while back), but I had forgotten that I had set up a Geospatial social network on Ning.”

Ma.gnolia: Welcome, New Linkers

Via the ma.gnolia blog “Every so often we take a look at some of the new people in the Ma.gnolia community in the past few months, and try to spot some good people for the Featured Linker space. We look for people with diverse interests, who we find interesting to follow and think you might as well. Some are geeky, some are the farthest thing from it, some are in-between, but they’re all interesting in their own right, and they’re all close by in our corner of the interwebs.”

OSCON in 37 minutes

Via the RailsEnvy blog “Last week at O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention (OSCON) I decided to put together a video attempting to capture the essence of the event (I did something similar with Railsconf in 36 minutes earlier this year). I ended up with is 37 minute video of great speakers including the keynoters Tim O’Reilly, Damien Conway, Tim Bray, Robert Lefkowitz, David Recordon, Nathan Torkington, and Danese Cooper. “

Get Excited, We’re Launching Things

Via the Intrigo blog “In case you’ve noticed that we’ve been a little light on the posts recently, it’s all because our great clients have been keeping us so busy. In fact, so busy we’ve got three big launches coming up in August! Here’s just enough to start whetting your appetite…”

Platial Nearby on the Front Page

From the Platial blog “Raven Zachary, man about town when it comes to all things iPhone, has his watchful eye on the iTunes App Store basically 24/7. He pinged us this morning with the delightful news that our app, Nearby, is making it’s debut right on the front page today.”

What Startups Can Learn From Haruki Murakami

Alex Iskold writes “The genius of Murakami is in his discipline, focus and determination. I see him as a virtual Zen master – an embodiment of wisdom, passion, skills and exceptional will. The elements of his work and life story are inspirational and (here’s where ReadWriteWeb comes in) particularly applicable when you’re running a startup. Therefore in this post, we take a look at what modern technology startups can learn from this Japanese literary master.”

OpenID gets the third degree at OSCON

Is OpenID a panacea, a placebo, or something in between? Opposing viewpoints took turns on center stage Wednesday afternoon at OSCON 2008. The session entitled “A Critical View of OpenID” started off as anything but critical, but once the audience got its turn to raise questions, things got more interesting.

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