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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 “Iā€™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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You’re invited: Strands demoing private beta tomorrow

Rick Turoczy on May 27, 2008

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

Rick Turoczy on May 26, 2008

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

Rick Turoczy on May 26, 2008

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

Rick Turoczy on May 23, 2008

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

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 itā€™s not just about giving them the right tools. Itā€™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 Jobsā€™ 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, Iā€™ve never seen it illustrated as well as in the Timeline of Macintosh models on Wikipedia.”

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Portland Startup Weekend: It’s still a “Go!”… are you?

Rick Turoczy on May 20, 2008

Portland Startup WeekendRoughly six months ago, the Portland startup community put its collective effort into casting votes for “Portland Startup Weekend,” a local version of the successful Startup Weekend events designed to test our collective entrepreneurial mettle by challenging participants to form a company in a 54-hour period.

Thanks to that collective voting effort, Portland was among the first cities selected for the 2008 series of Startup Weekends. And those who were interested in the event—myself included—were, for lack of a better word, “psyched.”

In the following months, the Startup Weekend team expanded to support its rapidly growing popularity. Founder Andrew Hyde stepped aside to hand off the planning for Startup Weekend—including Portland Startup Weekend—to the someone who could focus on the events full-time.

Everything seemed to be moving in the right direction.

But then, things got quiet. Too quiet.

And now, Hyde has informed us that Portland Startup Weekend—scheduled for May 23-25—has fallen victim to some organizational issues:

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.

It’s unfortunate that any Startup Weekend encountered these difficulties, let alone our Startup Weekend.

But, Andrew and his team are working overtime to recover the fumble.

Jeremy Tanner, who has now taken the lead on Portland Startup Weekend planning, had this to say:

This is disappointing to the planning process, but not breaking the spirit of the event (This being Startup Weekend and all). This is an incredibly talented group, and I canā€™t wait to see what the group can accomplish in just 54 hours….

The real goal of Startup Weekend is community, and I canā€™t wait for SWPDX to show what it has. Plan on meeting some brilliant folks, working with those you have only known through twitter, and showing what you can do. Donā€™t expect to create the next Google, unless you are on my team, which, then it would be totally cool.

What now?

But now, comes the real question: How will this stumble affect attendance?

If you were planning to go, are you still going? Have you opted out? Never thought about participating?

I’ve heard some rumblings about attendance on Twitter—both positive and negative—but that’s far from conclusive. So I thought I would take the opportunity to launch a quick poll. Just to gauge the interest—and possible attendance—this weekend.

[polldaddy|626477]

Please take a second to respond, either via the poll or the comments.

I’d really appreciate hearing from you on this topic.

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