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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 12

Rick Turoczy on May 13, 2008

This Week on Calagator

Audrey Eschright writes “First up: we have a new design! You can see it in its full green glory at the usual place, calagator.org. Our two meetups last week accomplished a lot. Some little things, some bigger (like the design). We’re continuing to struggle with our iCalendar & hCalendar tools, mofo and vPim. Mofo had a bug that was preventing postal codes from being read accurately. We now have a one-line patch that fixes this. A note to other open source developers: make it easy for people to find out about known bugs and send you patches when we encounter one! It’s very frustrating to lose half a day of work to something like this. We want to keep the ‘many eyes’ principle working.”

W2

Steven Frank writes “W2 is a lightweight PHP wiki engine I wrote for my own usage…. I made the source available for anyone else who wants to tinker with it, but it’s mainly for me.”

New visualization tools! | Clicky Blog

From the Clicky blog “The default dashboard now includes beautiful line graphing functionality, but if you’ve customized it at all, then you have to enable it manually. Go to your dashboard preferences (click the icon in your tab bar, then dashboard sub-tab) and check the box For historical data, show line graphs instead of simple HTML bar graphs.”

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CallVerifID: Hi, it’s your OpenID account calling

Rick Turoczy on May 12, 2008

CallVerifIDPortland-based JanRain, arguably the leading developer for OpenID solutions, is on a roll. It seems like they just released ID Selector, and now they’ve come forward with another OpenID solution: CallVerfID.

CallVerfID allows OpenID users who login with an *.myopenid.com identity to take an extra security precaution with their login: getting a phone call.

And here’s the best part: it’s on any phone. Well, okay, any phone with buttons.

Instantly receive a call when signing into myOpenID. Simply answer and press # to authenticate. No certificates or text messages. Use any phone.

My point was: it’s not SMS messaging. It’s an actual phone call.

I even tried it with Skype and it worked flawlessly.

Since I’m always one to try to shoehorn an analogy into any situation, I’d say that CallVerifID is akin to your credit card company calling you when a strange charge request is made. It’s simply an added precaution to ensure that your credentials are being used by you, and only you.

So, why the added precaution? Do I really want to get called every time I post a blog comment?

No, of course not. But as OpenID begins to take hold, and more and more personal and business applications become available, this type of multi-factor authentication is going to become necessary. Because, at some point, there’s going to be some fairly sensitive information and access rights tied to that OpenID. Banking, travel, and shopping just to name a few.

JanRain’s solution is quite simple and elegant. And it’s easy to adopt, no matter what your technical expertise. I, for one, think this is a step in the right direction.

For more, visit JanRain’s myOpenID to learn about CallVerifID.

Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 10

Rick Turoczy on May 11, 2008

Building Mobile Applications for Fun and Profit

From PDXPHP “GoLife Mobile’s Founder and Chief Innovation Officer, Mounir Shita, will be presenting on VADOWERX and demonstrating how to create applications with it. Come learn more!”

The Future of the Wiki

Curt Hopkins writes “Wednesday, Ward Cunningham, the inventor of the wiki and a member of AboutUs.org’s board, gave a presentation on the Future of the Wiki at AboutUs Towers. Sponsored by PDX Web Innovators, was well attended by a host of webby, wiki types. I asked Ward what he talked about and his response was collaborative and adaptive, not surprising considering his background and interests.”

CelleCast Merges Old, New and Social Media Into One Interactive Environment with the Launch of its User Community, CelleCast Listener Central

From the CelleCast blog “Andrew Deal, founder and CEO of CelleCast Inc. announced today the launch of its social media tools built to enhance the burgeoning user community. CelleCast Listener Central brings the popularity of sites such as MySpace and Facebook to a 490 million phones and the mobile, audio-on-demand environment. The CelleCast Listener Central page features a variety of social media tools including talkbacks, polls, playlists, top shows and user statistics and they’re available to anyone with a phone.”

OpenID, Please!

We, the undersigned, want you to add OpenID logins to your respective sites. Please?

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Platial heightens the experience, unveils new look and new features

Rick Turoczy on May 9, 2008

Portland-based Platial, one of the original social mapping applications and caretaker of more than 150 million geobits of information, has rolled out a new build of its application that promises to take a critical step forward in social mapping, moving from the ability “to plot points on a map” to the ability to have much deeper and meaningful experiences with locations and the people who love them.

Platial

The newest release—dubbed “Flanders,” following the alphabetical NW Portland street structure that governs Platial’s release naming—introduces a number of new features and a whole new look for Platial.

Not the least of which are a ton of new categories for your map items:

Platial categories

Sharing the experience

But the most important part of the release may not be the things that you see. The most important part of the release may be the things that you feel.

Because the latest build of Platial focuses on helping the viewer move from disconnected innocent bystander to participant, by immersing him or her in the rich contextual fabric of the location.

“We’re trying to push a little further,” said Di-Ann Eisnor, Platial CEO. “We’re trying to capture that experience by providing relevant and contextual information.”

And that experience is definitely heightened by Platial’s move into the content space.

I’m happy to see Platial’s flavor of social mapping move beyond the realm of “writing a few notes about this pin on the map” to something that furthers the storytelling that has always been at the very core of the Platial service.

And with the Flanders build, I see them moving into something that truly gives meaning to location: history, context, deep content, and differing views.

It will be exciting to see where this goes.

(Hat tip Marshall Kirkpatrick)

Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 08

Rick Turoczy on May 8, 2008

 

Portland Creative/Tech Event Review (PC/TER) 10: BarCamp Portland

Bram Pitoyo writes “Personally, BarCamp Portland was one of the best events that I have attended in Portland. The atmosphere was both very collaborative and conductive to ideas. The people, extremely smart. And the most important thing of all was that, to me, it seems that participants were there because they wanted to be there, not because they had to.”

Sifting through your traffic stats for value at Beer and Blog

Justin Kistner writes “Most of us probably check on our traffic stats for our blogs. But, how many of us actually know how to drill down on our stats to find the valuable information that could direct our blogging activities? This session is going to explore techniques for mining your traffic stats on Google Analytics, MyBlogLog, Feedburner, and maybe some more.”

GadgetTrak chalks up two more iPod recoveries

Not exactly a “Web startup,” but from the Portland area. And what geek doesn’t want to protect his or her gadgets?

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TwitterLocal Leader Board adds Top Twitterers by region

Rick Turoczy on May 8, 2008

With TwitterLocal, Portland’s Matt King took a interesting foray into tracking Twitter users based on their geographical location.

But was that enough for Matt? Oh no.

So, he had to go and make it even more compelling by adding a “Leader Board,” that listed the top 30 Twitter cities, based on the number of tweets per capita.

Brilliant!

Still not enough for Matt.

But now he really may have gone too far. Because he just snuck in what could amount to one of the most compelling slicing-and-dicings of the Twitter types I’ve seen.

That’s right folks. The Twitter leader rankings heretofore relegated to the global stage of Tweeterboard have now—thanks to Matt—taken on a decidedly local flavor.

The TwitterLocal Leader Board now provides the leading Twitter users for each city. (Here’s a snapshot of Portland’s leading Twitter users over the last 24 hours, for example.)

As an added bonus, this new view into Twitter locales also provides a flowing tweet stream from local residents.

Our little TwitterLocal is now a big ol’ “Pulse of [your leading Twitter city here],” with insight into who is currently contributing the most to the conversation.

Tweet globally, rank locally.

For more, take a moment to review the TwitterLocal Leader Board and click through to some of the leading locales.

Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 07

Rick Turoczy on May 7, 2008

Parent Hacks on Twitter

Asha Dornfest writes “I could go on and on, but the point is that I was also (finally) convinced (by Jason Glaspey of Unthirsty) that Twitter is a Good Thing.”

Scott Kveton interviews Luke Crouch from SourceForge about OpenID

Kevin Fox writes “Scott and Luke talk about why SourceForge went OpenID, their support of the Open Source community, identity (why IDP vs. RP) and what issues they ran up against while implementing OpenID. There are lots of technologies that are complimentary to OpenID, what is next for SourceForge?”

AppDrop / Google App Engine Video from PDX.rb

Chris Anderson writes “Here’s the video of my talk last night. There’s also an mp3 file of the AppDrop PDX.rb Talk if you’d prefer audio. I was unable to add slides to the video, but Amy did a great job capturing the slides on camera – slides are also available as a pdf so you can follow along at home if you’d like. Thanks to PDX.rb for giving me the opportunity to put this out there.”

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Same Portland Lunch 2.0 building, new Portland Lunch 2.0 host, also bacon

Rick Turoczy on May 7, 2008

Sad that you missed seeing the eROI space at the last Portland Lunch 2.0? Well, wipe away those tears, gentle reader. We can get you close.

The latest Portland Lunch 2.0 date and location have been announced. And, as luck would have it, it’s in the same exact spot, only one floor down.

Vidoop, one of the ever-burgeoning residents of the eROI-owned space in Old Town, has volunteered to host the next Portland Lunch 2.0, to be held May 28. Those interested in attending can RSVP via Upcoming.

This lunch marks a celebration of sorts for the Vidoop team, in a Welcome Wagon sort of way:

From what I hear, this will be a cool time for Vidoop. Apparently, their entire Tulsa office is transplanting itself to Portland this month, in an epic roadtrip. So, this will be a great chance to welcome them to Portland and give them a taste of how we do Lunch 2.0 here.

No word on the amount of bacon to be had. (Knowing the hosts, I’m assuming this is not an “if” question, but rather a “how much” question.) But, rumor has it that Ford’s on Fifth may be tapped to cater the event.

Jake Kuramoto, the energy behind Portland’s version of Lunch 2.0, has said he’s interested in squeezing a few more Portland Lunch 2.0 gatherings into the summer months. So, if you’re interested in hosting, please ping Jake on Twitter or feel free to comment below.

Future Portland Lunch 2.0 hosts include Wieden + Kennedy and maybe, just maybe, yours truly. But first, let’s all head on over to see Vidoop’s new digs.

I’m looking forward to seeing you there.

Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for May 07

Rick Turoczy on May 6, 2008

The Associated Press: The chi of Portland: High weirdness in Nirvana

Wha…? No mentions of “open source” or our tech scene? Pshaw. Worth a read anyway.

Sharing Features

From the Green Renter blog “We added a new feature today making it easy to share green buildings with other social sites like Delicious and Flickr, in addition to emailing your friends. On a building detail page, simply look for the ‘Share’ tool bar on the right side of the page.”

Lifestyle Entrepreneurship – Having a Business So You Can Live Your Life…

Trevor Mauch writes “To me, ‘lifestyle entrepreneurship’ is all about creating a business (or businesses) that allows you to truly lead the life you want to live.”

 

[Please note: ma.gnolia, as much as I love it, has been choking a bit recently on my link posts. As such, some folks—whom I would really like to highlight—have not been shared here. (When I force ma.gnolia to post, the most it can post is three entries.) So, if you’re willing, I’d highly encourage you to peruse the wealth of links in the Silicon Florist group on ma.gnolia.]

Iterasi: Get your own personal Wayback Machine

Rick Turoczy on May 6, 2008

[Full discloure: Iterasi is a client of mine. I worked with them a great deal on the initial announcement of their product in February, but aside from some ad hoc consultation, I did not participate in this launch.]

Vancouver-based Iterasi, the service that allows you to run your own personal Wayback Machine, has come out of private BETA and announced general availability for the Windows version of their browser toolbar. Using the toolbar, you gain the ability to capture an entire Web page, exactly as you see it—dynamic elements and all—and save it in that state, forever.

Sound interesting? Head over to the site to register and download your Iterasi toolbar.

The team has added some compelling features since the last time I wrote about the product back in February. Most notably the ability to embed captured pages within Web pages.

I’ve posted one of my favorite examples—the ability to save a Google search for future reference—below.

http://www.iterasi.net/embedded/?sqrlitid=_usQPoEYdU6mizC1xaJXOQ

As you’ll see from the embedded page, Iterasi saves the entire Web page as fully functional HTML, including any AJAX wackiness or completed form fields. In many ways, it’s the evolution of bookmarking. Moving from saving the location of a Web page to saving the Web page, itself.

But even that description might not give you a full feel for the potential of the product. So, if you’re a Windows user or have access to Windows on your Mac, I’d encourage you to download it and give it a shot.

The Mac version of Iterasi’s toolbar is still under development.

For more information, visit Iterasi.

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