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SXSW: A “Noob” With a View – Media Bullseye

A little Silicon Florist egosurfing, again. This time, my write-up on SXSW for Media Bullseye.

Portland Small Business updates its look

Well, I kinda put the whole message in the subject line there, didn’t I? Check out the latest version of Portland Small Business.

OTBC: FastTrac TechVenture Information Session

Steve Morris writes “If you are thinking about starting a high-tech or biotech company (or you already are in an early-stage startup), come to this brown-bag lunch event to learn about how the FastTrac® TechVenture program can help you succeed.”

ExpressionEngine 2.0 Preview

I wrote up a quick piece on Bend-based EllisLab’s demo of the new version of ExpressionEngine. But, with a picture being worth a thousand words and whatnot, this video probably does it better justice than my write-up.

Jive Talks: Millions of downloads for Openfire and the Ignite Realtime products

Jive’s Matt Tucker writes, “We recently saw our Openfire downloads counter hit seven digits worth of downloads. The Openfire project is close to my heart and I first want to extend a sincere congratulations to my incredible team for developing the project into one that has hit 1 million downloads. Now the family of Ignite Realtime products have hit a collective download total of 3 million.”

Twiddla

Neven Mrgan writes “So, this is the project we went to SXSW with (more on that whole trip later). I’m the designer/UI dude. We’re just getting started, but we’ll try not to get too Beta on you. Nobody likes that. Jump in now, check it out, send a bug report. And don’t forget, we love you.”

SplashCast First to Launch on MySpace Platform

SplashCast CEO Mike Berkley writes “Without a lot of fanfare, MySpace launched their Developer Platform today. SplashCast is one of only a few developers launching applications on day one — which was also the case with Facebook’s platform launch in May of 2007. Mashable, Centernetworks, SiliconFlorist, and TechVibes all covered our MySpace launch today.”

DrupalCampPDX

Grant Kruger writes “So we are having our DrupalCamp on May 10th. One hell of a crowded meeting last night, so clearly DrupalCampPDX is something we as a group are excited about. Folks came from other parts of Oregon too, including one from Eugene, a sure sign that it’s going to be a statewide event at the very least.”

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Measuring Web 2.0 Technologies – Panel Discussion

Aaron Gray will be a panelist on the Web Analytics Association’s upcoming webcast Measuring Web 2.0 Technologies on Thursday, March 20, 2008 @ 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT.

Things About Portland That Suck

Hat tip to VanPortlander, Aaron Hockley, for mentioning this blog. Portvangelists, please take note.

PDX Flickr Meetup

Flickr users of the Portland metropolitan area unite! Meet up at McMenamins Tavern and Pool, Thursday, March 13, 2008. If you’re thinking of attending, please RSVP via Upcoming.

Vidoop SXSW Wrap Up: Interviews on OpenID, Data Portability, Pics and more | The Vidoop Blog

Scott Kveton writes “With the last of us getting back from Austin it is time to get all of our interviews and pictures posted. This year’s SXSW Interactive conference was great, I think I can speak for everyone at Vidoop when I say we all had a great time and look forward to next year.”

SearchFest ‘08 Presentations

Scott Hendison writes “Thank you to all of the speakers, volunteers and attendees that helped make SearchFest ‘08 stack right up against any other conference I’ve been to. The content provided in a just a single day was outstanding, in my opinion.”

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Startup mines for riches in collaboration software

The Portland Tribune writes “Some employers are having no trouble finding new workers. One of them is AboutUs Inc., a startup company that has created a Web directory using what’s called wiki software, which creates text that can be edited by anyone.”

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Portable Social Networks session at sxsw at Fast Wonder Blog

Dawn Foster captured a great deal of the Portable Social Networks session at SXSW, which featured Leslie Chicoine, Jeremy Keith, Chris Messina, David Recordon, and Joseph Smarr. These are some of the leading thinkers on Web profile management and authentication sharing some of their vision for how the Web will work. Important information for everyone who works in Web apps, Silicon-Forest-based or otherwise.

SXSWhat?

Jive’s CMO Sam Lawrence provides a whirlwind tour report, “I can’t really say I went to SXSW this year. 24-hours is hardly enough time to have been there. But I did have a fun, albeit nutty short time.badge.jpg Some highlights:”

Mark Zuckerberg on Data Portability: An Interview – ReadWriteWeb

Portland’s Marshall Kirkpatrick had the opportunity to sit down with Mark Zuckerberg, a guy who runs a little Web site called Facebook. Marshall writes, “Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is at SXSW doing press interviews today and many people want to know what his thoughts are concerning data portability. There’s a big web out there that would like to give and take user data in and out of Facebook. We focused on data portability in our conversation with Zuckerberg and got a fairly clear picture of his views on the subject.”

Map Awards – Platial.com

Portland-based Platial has announced their Map Awards for 2007, highlighting “We’re thrilled to be a part of all these movements which are literally reshaping our new world, a single world united through action instead of boundary. That’s why we started Platial. Being part of these movements and a resource for community action is what we hoped we could do.”

Waxy.org: Worst Website Ever, Redux

Portland’s Andy Baio covers the SXSW Worst Website Ever panel, “Once I can get a copy of the audio from the talk, I’ll upload a screencast of the entire session with the original slides. Until then, here are the descriptions of each pitch.”

Bend Blogs

Bend Blogs is an aggregator and directory of Central Oregon journals, blogs, and weblogs, with blogs from Bend, Redmond, Prineville, Sunriver, Sisters, and La Pine. Updated hourly.

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OsoEco: We’re O So Excited to Win!

OsoEco CEO Caroline Cummings, after placing as a finalist for Angel Oregon, writes, “Our next steps are to continue fundraising to finish raising the $1 million we need to close this round. We’re scheduled to launch OsoEco to the public this Spring. If you haven’t already – please sign up on our home page to request an invitation to our next beta launch. We look forward to being able to share OsoEco with the world – and enable consumers everywhere to recognize their collective consumer power.”

At SXSWi

Bruce Kroeze, who joined the Portland SXSW breakfast, shares some thoughts on the event, “I’m sitting in a panel “Social Design Strategies” at South by Southwest Interactive. What a privilege and a pleasure to be here. I can’t believe I’ve never attended this before.”

BarCampAustin and BarCampPortland Compare & Contrast

Dawn Foster provides a comparison between the Austin and Portland BarCamps highlighting, “This is my second BarCampAustin, and it’s been interesting to notice some of the similarities and differences between Austin and BarCampPortland. For some reason, Austin seems to have more presentations and pitches instead of the informal round table discussions that people seem to favor at BarCampPortland; however, Austin also has more of a party atmosphere.”

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Portland Web Innovators March Meeting Recap

Simeon Bateman write, “The focus of the meeting was not a technical subject but as more on actually running a small business. The meeting was lead by Lynn Hoyle and Kevin Spence, a local CPA and Attorney respectively. The meeting had a great feel with about 20 folks asking great questions and us getting to hear about the implications or solutions from a tax standpoint as well as from the legal side.”

Josh Bancroft: I’m in Austin, Texas, for SXSW Interactive

Josh Bancroft writes, “I’ll be taking photos and shooting video, and posting real blog posts, but mainly, you can expect to keep up with what I’m doing via my Twitter microposts. You’ll find a daily summary posted here to the blog (but not in the feed), or you can see it all as it happens in my lifestream at http://www.joshbancroft.com, or follow me on Twitter.”

Lyza Danger Gardner: Coffee People Enclave

Web startups need coffee. Good coffee. And wireless. So I thought that this might be interesting to a bunch of you. Lyza Danger Gardner writes, “For PDX-ers still mourning the loss of local coffee chain Coffee People (summarily bought out of existence by Starbucks, who coveted their two drive-in locations on MLK Blvd.) might feel a little bit better knowing that there is somewhere that is still carrying the flame.”

Mobile Portland at eROI (Monday, March 24, 2008)

Mobile Portland is a local user group focused on mobile development. We cover everything from application development and SMS to mobile web technology.

Josh Bancroft: Thoughts and Photos from SXSW Interactive 2008, Day One

Continuing his series of lifestream posts from his SXSW experience, Josh Bancroft provides a recap and photos of his “Day 1.”

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Oregon Entrepreneurs Network (OEN) – END//outdoor wins top honors at Angel Oregon 2008

The official Oregon Entrepreneur Network post on the Angel Oregon winners. Includes links to other coverage.

Thanks, SplashCast – On To Iterasi

Alex Williams writes, “I resigned from SplashCast last week. Yesterday was my last day. I start today with Iterasi, one of the coolest companies I have seen in a while. I will be talking a lot about Iterasi. I plan to live by the “Loic LeMeur” school of market conversation. Get out there and talk to people in as many ways as you possibly can. I will start with SXSW in Austin, where I am right now.”

The design of Jive’s new logo

Michael Sigler describes the thinking behind Jive’s new logo: “Sam posted about the new Jive logo a couple of weeks ago. I promised myself I’d post something more in depth but let myself forget about it. Then I saw this post over at 37signals and it reminded me how much I love how-they-did-its.”

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Marshall Kirkpatrick to lead this week’s session on “Making your business’s blog a mover and a shaker” at Beer and Blog

If you’ve never been to Beer and Blog, this would be a good week to start. Not only is the event brilliant, but you can’t get much better than Marshall Kirkpatrick.

The Argon Express 2008? It’s not too late!

Picture yourself and your laptop. It’s been over a day and you’re sitting on a train with a group of Rails developers with a view like this over your shoulder.

USA Today: Microsoft: still out to squish the little guy (like Jive Software)

Rival Jive Software wants to be the Apple Computer of corporate social networks. Jive’s competing Clearspace system supplies all the bell and whistles in a slick, tightly integrated package. Jive only does Clearspace.

Amplify Interactive Turns 5 Years Old

Ben Lloyd writes, “You’ve heard the stat right? Something like 85% of businesses fail within the first 5 years? I just realized as I was going through some tax-time paperwork that Amplify Interactive officially opened for business on March 5 2003, which makes us 5 years old as of today.”

LazyEngine

Don’t know how I missed this one. Maybe I was lazy. Satyajit “Sam” Grover writes, “LazyEngine is a lazy search engine. If you want to do a search, consider for a moment if you need the results immediately. If not, then this is the search engine for you. This is probably a silly web application.”

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Improving entrepreneurship in your city.

Aside from #7 (which might be more appropriate as “state and local” for us), I’d say the Silicon Forest community is working in the right direction.

Three things productivity software can learn from game designers

Sam Lawrence asserts, “Shouldn’t productivity software make us want to work? I mean, it’s goal is to make us (and our company) more productive. Given that, the most goal-oriented software I can think of is gaming software. That industry is hyper-competitive. They know our attention and dollars are precious and they’re myopically focused on delivering value within their product.”

Washington Post: Wanna Talk Money?

“It comes from the whole MySpace generation. Once people become comfortable being social online, it extends into other areas, such as personal finance,” said Ryan Williams, co-founder of NetworthIQ, which allows people to publicly keep track of their assets.

Apparently, last weekend was the unofficial Portland “Face Lift Weekend”

Like Silicon Florist, Metroblogging Portland got a face lift over the weekend, as well. Dieselboi says, “As you can see, Portland Metblogs, along with the entire Metroblogging network got a face lift over the weekend. We’re pretty excited about the new interface.”

Calagator progress: New Views and iCalendar

We had a hugely successful code sprint this past Saturday. Reid Beels drafted wireframes that we used to change the main site areas over from scaffolding to something more “calendary”, so if you go to the site now, you’ll see the start of a new home page and event views. We also added iCalendar import and export options. This means you can now subscribe to all of Calagator in your personal calendar of choice.

Oregon Startups: Help with SBIR and STTR – March 31 Deadline!

The March 31st deadline for the Small Business Matching Grant Program (Phase 0) is quickly approaching. The program was created to increase Oregon’s competitiveness in capturing federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grants. These two federal grant programs provide funding to small businesses for research and development of new technologies.

SXSW 2008 & Vidoop

Portland’s Scott Kveton, yesterday’s guest editorial writer, points out, “We’ll be out in force at SXSW Interactive this weekend. In addition to sponsoring BarCamp Austin III, we’ll also be busy on the floor at our booth (stop by for some cool SWAG!) we’ll also be roaming around the conference and all over Austin doing video interviews with attendees about things happening on the Open Web.”

The New Metroblogging – WordPress: Good. Barriers to Participation: Bad. » VanPortlander

The story continues. Metroblogging Portland is one of the major blog forces here in town, and former-Metblogger Aaron Hockley’s insight into the drama and goings-on are invaluable. Here’s hoping that the ship rights itself sooner rather than later.

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