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Category: Links

Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 30

Rick Turoczy on May 30, 2008

Jive so far

Gia Lyons writes “I’ll be onsite in Portland next week, and will finally get to meet my new boss, Sam Lawrence, in person. I already have secrets about him, so I think trust has been established already.”

Web 2.x Developer and Meta-Media Social Network Architect Job, stagedive

StageDive, Inc. is seeking a talented and experienced web developer to implement creative technologies and create a special interest social network community based around high quality user generated audio and video.

Thoughts on Distributed Twitter

Josh Pyles writes “Today at Beer and Blog we discussed the possibilities of distributed ‘micro-blogging’ services using an open standard, and blogging platforms. It’s certainly an interesting idea, and I would love to see it come to fruition, but I still have several doubts about it. There are several key components that may seem small overall, but they are the little nuances that make Twitter our favorite online service.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 28

Rick Turoczy on May 29, 2008

Work Session Challenge: Can we replace Twitter with our blogs? at Beer and Blog

Justin Kistner asks “Does Twitter really offer any special service? Have we been duped into using their clogged tubes for no good reason?”

Strands Lifestreaming: What They’re Doing and Invites for Readers

Marshall Kirkpatrick writes “The first release of the product tackles usability issues that other services have faced and offers a sophisticated feature set that other competing services will likely learn from quickly. The next release from Strands will include an application of the company’s recommendation technology to the aggregated user data and allow export of users’ standards based ‘taste data.’ Before it can succeed in those next challenges, though, there are some key areas in which the Strands user experience will need to improve.”

Thank you everyone, Ignite Portland 3 submissions are closed and we’re selecting the talks now

Aaron Hockley Justin Kistner writes “Thanks for the submissions everyone! There are some really great ideas here and we’ll be mulling them over this weekend. We will announce our selections early next week right here on our blog.”

N2Y3Con Video: Isaac Holeman and John Wagner of Squarepeg

Good quick overview of Portland’s Squarepeg and what they’re hoping to accomplish. Take a few minutes to watch.

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 28

Rick Turoczy on May 28, 2008

Intrigo Portland Keeps Growing, Dan Blaker joins team

Erictrigo writes “We couldn’t be more excited about having Dan join our team. His experience, talent, and personality are perfect fits, and attest again to why we love Portland and its people so much. Not to mention, Dan become the first ever Dad to be a part of the Intrigo team!”

What to do in Portland while you’re at RailsConf 2007 (updated for 2008)

Matt King writes “If you’re attending RailsConf this year and are from out of town, you might be like me when you’re in another city: I don’t really find much outside of the touristy areas, or what’s immediately around where I’m staying. But you’re in luck! I live here in Portland, Oregon and I have a list of places to go and things to do that I think are quintessential Portland.”

OpenID To Look For New Leadership

On the topic of OpenID–something near and dear to our Portland hearts–Michael Arrington writes “OpenID Foundation is looking for new leadership to guide the project going forward. Executive Director Bill Washburn, who is the only paid employee of the foundation, will be leaving in six months and the entity is looking for a replacement.”

AboutUs Bookmarklet

Mark Dilley writes “For power users and new feature daredevils! The AboutUs Bookmarklet will open the AboutUs Wiki Page for the website that you are currently browsing. So if you are looking at the InstituteOfMosaicArt.com website and you want to add something to its Wiki Page on AboutUs, you can get there in the click of a link in your web browser!”

Win a free pass to Enterprise 2.0

Sam Lawrence is offering a free pass to Enterprise 2.0. “The good folks at Enterprise 2.0 have given me one free Platinum (no less) pass to give away to a lucky Go Big Always reader. Here’s what you need to do to win it…”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 26

Rick Turoczy on May 27, 2008

Portland Lunch 2.0 at Vidoop (Wednesday, May 28, 2008)

Come one, come all, whether geek or not. Have some lunch on Vidoop, mix and mingle with your fellow Portlanders, learn about the tech scene in Portland, go home or back to work happy and full.

New blog, by and about WikiProject Oregon

Pete Forsyth writes “I’m very excited to announce that WikiProject Oregon, a loose collection of Wikipedia volunteers who share an interest in Oregon, has just started its own blog: wikiprojectoregon.wordpress.com.”

MetroFi Is Dot.Gone

The Portland citywide free wifi demise is complete, according to Om Malik, who writes “In what is proving to be yet another high-profile Metro Wi-Fi failure, MetroFi, a San Jose-based startup that raised over $15 million from Sevin Rosen and August Capital, is close to shutting down, according to WiFi NetNews and MuniWireless, two blogs that follow the MuniFi industry closely.” Long live Personal Telco!

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 21

Rick Turoczy on May 21, 2008

WebVisions 2008: Schedule

WebVisions will be held at the Oregon Convention Center’s E Series Meeting Rooms. Speakers and schedules for workshops and sessions are subject to change and seating is provided on first come, first served basis.

Twitter has had a rough week

Jack writes “I have this graph up on my screen all the time. It should be flat. This week has been rough.”

SAO lures Harvey Mathews back

From the Silicon Forest blog “Harvey Mathews, who resigned in March as the head of the Software Association of Oregon, has decided to stay on after all instead of leaving May 19 as he had planned.”

New Platial Feature: Zoom to Location

Tracy Rolling writes “Last week we updated the site and added back in our old ‘Zoom to Location’ tool. This is a really useful tool if you are looking at a big map that has a lot of markers on it all over the world and you just want to see what is close to you. You can type in the name of your city or plug in your zip code to jump the map over to the spot you need.”

Let’s set a date. – WordCampPDX

Aaron Hockley writes “We’re looking at 9/27 as the tentative date for WordCamp Portland.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 20

Rick Turoczy on May 20, 2008

IBM Lotus Connections Evangelist now works at Jive

Gia Lyons shares “My passion is to help people figure out how to work better with each other, to do better things together. And it’s not just about giving them the right tools. It’s about showing them how to change their culture so that they can become the truly collaborative and innovative organization they want to be. But, to do this, you need to start with great tools, or folks will never use more than the email or the phone.”

db clay Version 3.1

Mr. Diggles writes “db clay has officially switched over to the rails platform which is why this was a big launch for us. we still have a long way to go with the back-end stuff but holy hell our new system is slick.”

Ruthless Simplicity

Raymond Brigleb writes “Much has been made about Steve Jobs’ return to Apple, about ten years ago now, and how he turned the company around. Basically, a big part of his strategy for getting Apple back on track was drastically reducing the number and variety of computers they sold. While I am quite familiar with the story, I’ve never seen it illustrated as well as in the Timeline of Macintosh models on Wikipedia.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 18

Rick Turoczy on May 19, 2008

WhereCamp 2008

Audrey Eschright writes “I think we really, absolutely have a WhereCamp Portland. Let’s say in October. There’s just too much interesting mapping and location-geekery happening here to not do it. Who wants to help make this happen?”

Submit an Ignite Proposal & Complete the LoT Survey Now!

Dawn Foster writes “Ignite proposals are due on May 28th! That means you have only 10 days to come up with an awesome, killer idea for the Ignite Portland event in June. We don’t have very many submissions so far, so
your chances are good!”

Portland Startup Weekend is Friday

Andrew Hyde writes “Sorry for the lack of communication, the person that was in charge of putting together this weekend quit last weekend without notice, and the lack of communication was worse than I realized. If you have any questions, please email me at andrew@startupweekend.com and I will get right back to you. I am very sorry for the inconvenience this has caused everyone.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 16

Rick Turoczy on May 16, 2008

Demand.OpenID.net: A One Click Call to Action – ReadWriteWeb

Marshall Kirkpatrick writes “OpenID provider JanRain has launched an interesting project called Demand OpenID, which lets users click a bookmarklet whenever they are on a website that they want to request OpenID support on. It’s a handy, if a touch rude, way to demonstrate user demand for OpenID on popular websites.”

Online Password Manager available for Firefox 3

From the Vidoop blog “The myVidoop plugin lets you harness the security of your myVidoop account to store and manage your passwords in your personal vault. The plugin saves you time by remembering all of your passwords and then automatically logging you in to the correct site, every time. Passwords are only remembered when you want them to be and all data is encrypted and stored either on your local machine, or online with myVidoop so they can be accessible anytime anywhere. Check it out today and start saving yourself time and protecting your personal data online!”

Why I’m going to Vidoop

Will Norris writes “So it’s not exactly news at this point, but it is indeed true that as of today I am now employed by Vidoop. This has been a few months in the making, so I figured I’d explain a little of why and how we got to this point.”

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