Category: Links

The Panic folks write “If you’re currently a Transmit user, we’d like to get your feedback on a few things to help us chart our course on future Transmit updates. Please take our quick Transmit survey and let us know what’s important to you! Thanks for your help!”

The June meeting welcomes Upcoming.org founder, Waxy.org proprietor, and brand new Portlander Andy Baio. Andy will talk about his side project (Upcoming), which became a bigger project, which was finally acquired by Yahoo! in 2005.

Bram Pitoyo writes “I don’t work with technology for a living, nor do I belong in a startup company. I am, by trade, a Brand Strategist, which in a nutshell involve talking with people to find out how a product or service can better serve them. I am secretly a nerd, too, but with dismal technical ability* (in an uh, what exactly does ‘ls -l’ does in Terminal? kind of way,) I stand no chance with all this programmers, developers and tech workers. But I decided to attend all these events anyway, from Mobile Portland, Portland Web Innovators, Beer and Blog, Innotech to Ignite Portland (check out the review series if you plan to attend one.) This is where it gets interesting.”

Justin Kistner writes “This Friday will be the awesomely fun Portland BarCamp. Most of the Beer and Bloggers will be attending this event, which starts at 6pm. So, rather than try to sprint to BarCamp from the Green Dragon, we’re going to roll up some sleeves and help the Legion of Tech crew get set up.”

Scott Hanselman writes “One of the things that is slowing OpenID adoption is that many people don’t realize that they may already have one. That’s what this little Javascript is trying to do by showing folks sites that they recognize. This way my Dad could login using Yahoo and it would make sense to him. It’s a little busy, but it’s a start. I’ve added an http://www.idselector.com/ to my blog for comments.”

Dawn Foster writes “But I’m not technical enough to attend… Bulls**t! All you need to attend BarCampPortland is a passion for technology in some form: as a user of technologies, as a Twitter addict, as a blogger, as a programmer, as a food geek, as a sys admin, as a…”

From the Walker Tracker blog “Walker Tracker has teamed up with getDowntown, a program of the Ann Arbor Chamber of Commerce, to create a private walking community on Walker Tracker for Ann Arbor, Michigan residents. The private level will be used to celebrate and promote Curb Your Car Month! We’re overjoyed to be part of such a great program. “

From the Legion of Tech blog “Portland has a huge Twitter community, and we will be using Twitter for updates during the event. Please follow BarCampPortland on Twitter to get real-time updates during the event. We will also have a space on your badge for your twitter name, so if you haven’t yet joined Twitter, now would be a great time!”

Miss Burrows writes “I’m on top, babies. Well, I’m on Alltop. It is a ‘digital magazine rack’ created in part by Guy Kawasaki. I could go on and on about how wonderful he is but I’d rather just gaze at his eyes for a bit.”

Bill Sodeman writes “WP-OpenID doesn’t support [JanRain’s] ID Selectors yet, so I modified the code myself. The code is available in this ZIP file as interface.php. Installation is easy. Simply download my zipped file, extract the php file, edit it to include the ID Selection script that can be generated here, and upload the modified php file to your WordPress server at wp-content/plugins/openid/”

Via the Cloud Four blog “We’ve been asked by a few people if we can release the preliminary data that we’re gathering in our Mobile Browser Concurrency Test. So here you go: raw data from the mobile concurrency test.”

Portland mutual admiration society. Mr. Diggles writes of Commuter Feed “i thought this was a nice use of an online social tool. the site was designed by josh pyles of pixelmatrixdesign. i got josh’s card at a social media function months ago and i finally decided to check out his site. he definitely one of the most talent web designers in portland. i am pumped since i finally have someone i can refer projects to that i know will kill it.”

From the Vidoop blog “After a fun filled week in San Francisco getting learn-ed on the Web 2.0 we are back in the Silicon Forest aka Portland. So far (other than the weather) this week is shaping up nicely.”

Via Darkreading. “He has also invested in a [Vancouver, WA] startup called Iterasi, which is beta-testing its product that ‘notarizes’ live Web pages to preserve and save them as-is and securely stores them. ‘It’s for compliance stuff… and for proving you read and saw something,’ Lynch says. ‘It’s a special kind of bookmark.'”

Aaron Hockley writes “Last week a few of us decided that a WordCamp in Portland would be lovely. I did a bit of legwork and made some contacts. I’m still thinking we may do a big standalone event sometime in the fall, but Raven suggested that we hold a WordCamp as part of BarCampPortland this coming weekend.”

Selena Deckelmann writes “Audrey listed out her projects the other day, and I decided to follow suit.”

Raymond Brigleb writes “We’ve just launched a simple e-commerce website for Paper Milk. Recently founded by artist Trish Grantham and Greg Klaus (owner of Greg’s), Paper Milk’s studio is located upstairs from our own studio here in the OMCC.”

Just a brief mention that Jive Software’s Clearspace was recently featured on Emily Chang’s eHub. It’s always nice to see local startups hitting the bigs.

Steven Frank writes “‘Laguna’ is the name of the custom blogging engine I use for this web site. I’ve gotten email from several people who were interested to see the code, and there’s no real reason not to post it, so here is Laguna 2.”

Andrew Deal writes “As we are about to go from soft launch to the actual launching and announcement of the CelleCast Community version 1.0, and deliberating with team members, industry friends, and early adopters about what we are building, I am amazed by the advantages we have. We have made on-demand audio and sharing a no-barrier deal for all.”

Curt Hopkins writes “Follow our updates on Twitter if you’re interested in finding out what’s new with AboutUs and what’s going on in the wiki world. We’ll reciprocate. We’re aggregating information on the company and on the theory and practice of wikis on our del.icio.us social bookmarking account. You can see our last eight saves at the bottom of the right-hand sidebar as well.”

The Beer and Blog group is heading to the race track to see who the real life Speedracer is among us. If you think that’s you, be there!

Josh Bancroft writes “I’ve been meaning to do it for a while, but I was spurred into action by a blog post by Aaron Hockley yesterday, and a fun Twitter ‘argument’ with him and Rick Turoczy of Silicon Florist fame, and I’ve finally gotten around to making it possible to post a comment here on TinyScreenfuls.com using your OpenID.”

Mr. Diggles writes “we are in the midst of launching a new website at db clay. unfortunately we have hit a few speed bumps so i have had a little extra time on my hands. so i decided to give evil backwards a little bit of a face lift.”

OEN writes “Our Entrepreneurs’ Library, which is now public, is a place where budding entrepreneurs can gather information and helpful hints and tips regarding starting a business, legal/IP issues, finance and more. Check out our SplashCast player on a regular basis for updated information!”

Steve Woodward writes “This is a story about Darius the Great, the ancient Persian king, and his namesake: Darius Monsef IV, a prodigal son who returned home to Portland as a world citizen and the toast of the Internet universe.”

Take a moment to embrace your technolust and watch Josh Bancroft unbox his new Amazon Kindle.

Blog and Beer is in no way affiliated or associated with Beer and Blog. That event has been canceled this week. Instead we are doing Blog and Beer. The two events have nothing in common. Except for the beer. And the blogging. And it’s pretty much the same people meeting at the same place & time.

Curt Hopkins writes “Sometimes it’s a little hard to see how this philosophical egalitarianism is going to benefit you, the user. So I wanted to help them articulate the answer to an important question, one that lay in plain site, but had not perhaps been sharpened like it could. What does AboutUs do as a company? And what good does it do me?”

Dawn Foster writes “I really enjoyed my panel this morning at Web 2.0 Expo with Jeremiah Owyang, Bob Duffy, and Kellie Parker. Here are a few of the things we talked about (including a correction to one of the answers that I gave during the panel).”

Patrick Emerson writes “On Monday The Oregonian reported on the potential demise of the free public Wi-Fi network in Portland. This is not terribly surprising, as economists have long recognized the public goods problem. I have blogged about the public goods problem before, most notably, perhaps, about the Sellwood Bridge, so I’ll be succinct: it is hard to make money from public goods and free markets will provide too little of them relative to the socially optimal amount.”

Fred Stutzman writes “The ID Selector makes it easy to recall your OpenID when you’re logging into a site, solving a plethora of problems that occur when OpenID’s proliferate. We know this will make it easier for you to log in to OpenID, and we also hope that this will drive some more of that sweet OpenID-consuming that is required to push this movement forward.”

Mobile Portland is local user group focused on mobile development. We gather on the fourth Monday of every month for presentations, discussion and networking. This month’s guest presenters are GoLife Mobile’s Mounir Shita, Founder and President of Technology; and Greg Applegate, VP of Business Development

Steven Frank writes “Shortly after releasing 3.6.5 last week, we discovered that TransmitSync (a helper application for syncing Transmit favorites over .Mac) was crashing under certain configurations and circumstances. (You would receive a ‘TransmitSync has unexpectedly quit’ dialog if affected.) This is fixed in 3.6.6”

Aaron Hockley writes “Today on Twitter there was some sort of discussion about some word that was a mashup/mangling of ‘tw’ plus some other word. I decided there should be a directory of such words. A twictionary, if you will. And thus was born Twictionary, a wiki-based glossary for twitterisms.”

Mike Rogoway writes “Oregon startups have rarely transformed into major employers, but that isn’t stopping an array of very small businesses from dreaming really big. Companies such as Jive Software, Iovation Inc., Platial Inc. and Ensequence Inc. together won millions in venture capital backing last year. Online connections and offbeat public forums such as Ignite Portland link Oregon software developers across companies. That ‘cross-pollination,’ as it’s known in the startup community, has created a fervor for new ideas that was largely absent in the collective pall that followed the dot-com era. “

Bob Uva writes “I’m doing a new community film project entitled ‘Using Social Media to Enhance Community’ (until I can come up with a better name). This film will briefly explore what social media is (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, blogging, wikis) followed by interview clips, short screencasts, and some fly-on-the-wall views of at least one in-person meeting of people who are involved in social media.”

Marshall Kirkpatrick writes “JanRain, owners of MyOpenID.com, and ConfidentTechnologies are both making announcements that could help make OpenID much friendlier. Confident is the half of Vidoop that serves enterprise and financial institutions.”

CD Baby writes “Small department specializing in digital distribution for independent musicians seeks one laid-back, self-motivated geek to join our growing content delivery team.”

Congratulations to Portland’s own Marshall Kirkpatrick, lead blogger for ReadWriteWeb, on being named the fifth most powerful tech blogger on the planet in TechCrunch’s analysis of the Techmeme leader board.

Via Around the Sun “GetRichSlowly.org, a personal finance blog written by Portland-area resident J.D. Roth, has been named “Most Inspiring” blog in the May 2008 issue of Money Magazine. GRS is one of three blogs included in the magazine’s annual list of the top 100 ‘people, places, things and strategies worth knowing right this minute.'”