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Tag: social web

Portland startups take note: Kleiner Perkins is going after the social Web in a big way

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers just launched a $250 million fund focused on social Web startups.

Rick Turoczy on October 21, 2010

[HTML3]It’s true. Most of the time I try to keep an increasingly myopic eye on the startup and tech scene in Portland, Oregon, and the surrounding areas. Not even all startups mind you. Mostly those focused on Web apps, mobile, and open source pursuits. In all honesty, there’s more than enough there to cover.

But every once in a while, there’s some earth shattering news that forces me to look outside the region. And to cover more broad reaching stories. And it just so happens one of those stories broke today. You see, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers just launched a $250 million fund focused on social Web startups. Read More

Portland types journey south for Social Web Foo Camp #swfoo

Rick Turoczy on April 18, 2009

Social Web Foo CampA who’s who of the social Web industry is currently camping out at the O’Reilly campus in Sebastapol for Social Web Foo Camp—and a good chunk of them happen to be Portland folks.

What’s that? You know BarCamp but not Foo Camp?

So here’s the deal. To keep it brief, Foo (Friends Of O’Reilly) Camp began as an invite-only unconference that brought leading thinkers together to discuss issues and ideas.

The event started as a joke between Tim O’Reilly and Sara Winge, O’Reilly’s VP of Corporate Communications. Sara had always wanted to run a “foo bar”—an open bar for “Friends of O’Reilly”—at one of O’Reilly’s conferences. That joke morphed into a brainstorm after the dot com bust left O’Reilly with lots of unused office space in its new buildings, creating the opportunity for Foo Camp.

In response, others started BarCamp (because the complement to foo is obviously bar, as in foobar ne fubar), which was an unconference open to anyone.

If you’ve never been to a BarCamp, you’re in luck. BarCamp Portland is only a couple of weeks away.

But back to the Foo. Especially the Social Web Foo.

Right now, a bunch of the regular Portland gang is embroiled in interesting discussions down at O’Reilly. And camping, of course.

Like who? Well, like:

You can keep an eye on the goings-on by watching the tweet stream from attendees on Twitter Search for #swfoo or Tagalus.

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