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Jive Software unveils expansion plans

Jive SoftwareApparently Portland-based Jive Software has got the “moving into new digs” bug.

I mean, we all know that they’re moving into new offices in Portland, this summer, but now they’ve revealed that they’re planning to move into offices in Silicon Valley, London, and Zurich.

Why all the new offices? Well, there’s a few more heads in the good ol’ headcount it seems. Like more than four times as many. And with all those heads attached to bodies, they need somewhere to sit and work.

This marks a huge step forward for what was—heretofore—a very successful Portland startup. Now that Jive is stepping onto the international stage, it will be very interesting to see what this means for the local scene—and the attention Portland gets.

Stay tuned.

Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 26

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!

You’re invited: Strands demoing private beta tomorrow

StrandsCorvallis-based Strands, the company that develops technologies to better understand people’s taste and help them discover things they like, is holding a Portland meetup to unveil some of the new stuff they’ve been building.

And they’re promising big things:

On May 28th, we will be opening up our newest service, Strands.com under private beta, a very early version of what we think will be something very relevant for people, very ambitious in the data portability space. We’ve organized a meet-up for the Portland community and would love for you to attend.

The event will be held at CubeSpace, Wednesday, May 28, beginning at 7 PM. To RSVP, visit the Strands Portland Meetup page on Upcoming.

Portland Startup Weekend: Five startup projects launched in 54 hours

Portland Startup WeekendWhat did you do this past weekend?

Yeah, really? Oh? You don’t say. Oh, that sounds nice. Me? Oh, you know. The usual.

Say, you’ll never guess what a bunch of our peers did over the weekend, though.

Oh, not much. Just started five separate startup projects.

That’s right. The group that gathered for Portland Startup Weekend managed to launch five startup projects: Get Gathered, Life Grant, Mugasha, Startup River, and TreasuRecycle.

They’re all in various states of startupedness, currently. But, rest assured, I’ll be dedicating posts to each of these projects as they gain their footing.

For now, let’s focus on Portland Startup Weekend, itself, with a good ol’ fashioned Silicon Florist round up:

No doubt more posts will be emerging as the participants recover from the weekend. And I’ll work to capture them here.

If you’ve posted something that I’ve missed, please comment and I’ll make sure to link it up.

WebVisions 2008: Rounding up the posts

WebVisionsWell, another WebVisions is in the books. And given that I wasn’t able to attend, I’ve been really happy to see a ton of write-ups on the event.

I can’t keep all this goodness to myself, so I thought I’d provide a round-up on all the comments and posts I’ve found.

Did you write something that I missed? I’d love to read it—and I’d love to link it up. Please add your post to the comments below, and I’ll add it to the list.

Portland Startup Weekend now being held at Vidoop offices

Heads up! There has been a last second location change for Portland Startup Weekend. The event will now be held at the Vidoop offices in Old Town. The event begins tonight, May 23, at 6:00 PM.

On a side note, I’m not sure if a Twitter hashtag has been proposed (or if Twitter will even be functional), but I thought I would propose one for those folks watching from the sidelines. How about #pdxsw?

[Editor’s note: As much as I’d love to be in attendance, I’ve been sidelined by illness. That said, I will definitely try to swing by during the weekend. Best of luck to the participants.]

Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 21

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.”

Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 20

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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