Silicon Florist
September 3, 2010
Labor Day weekend means jobs, gigs, and Portland people for hire
It’s the eve of Labor Day weekend. So what better time to think about work? Work work work.
What? No wait! Don’ go running away. I’m not asking you to do work. I’m ...
Silicon Florist
September 2, 2010
Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for August 2010
August this year was sweltering. Both in terms of weather and local startup news. But some of the most interesting stories revolved around some of our more regular topics around here: ...
Silicon Florist
September 2, 2010
Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for August 2010
August this year was sweltering. Both in terms of weather and local startup news. But some of the most interesting stories revolved around some of our more regular topics around here: ...
Silicon Florist
September 1, 2010
First Thursday Portland: Forkfly, Tenfour, and 90210
It’s getting be that time where summer is winding down, school is starting up, and work is—well—who am I kidding? Your work has been crazy the entire summer.
But what better reason ...
Silicon Florist
August 31, 2010
Portland’s PingGadget purports to take a page from Twitter and a page from Foursquare
Sometimes, there is a better wheel. Sometimes, a market has an 800 lbs gorilla that could use a little toppling. And yes, sometimes, I use inane marketing drivel when I can’t think ...
Silicon Florist
August 27, 2010
REMINDER: SXSW panel voting ends today; Twitter and Facebook streams return to regularly scheduled programming
If you spend any time in social media, you’ve no doubt been inundated over the last two weeks with requests to “vote for my panel at SXSW.” Ever since SXSW ...
Silicon Florist
August 25, 2010
REMINDER: Tonight, free beer, free pizza… Oh and maybe a little something about Intel Atom, your apps, and a little cash
Sure, sure. Building those apps is all fun and games until someone needs to make a living from it. And then? Then things get a little more confusing.
That’s why Intel is hosting ...
Silicon Florist
August 25, 2010
Not sure where to start? StartupDay 2010 (and this discount) can help you start your startup
After a very successful initial event last year, the folks at Seattle 2.0 have organized another ...
Silicon Florist
August 23, 2010
REMINDER: Mobile Portland invites panel of educators to discuss mobile and education tonight
While we all find a great deal of satisfaction and entertainment in mucking with technology day in and day out, every once in awhile, it’s nice to actually do something with it. ...
Silicon Florist
August 19, 2010
On open source and government: An accidental manifesto
A number of us recently read the Willamette Week’s coverage of open source and the City of Portland’s engagement with the open source community. Seeing ...
Silicon Florist
August 18, 2010
Portland Panel Picker: Vote for these SXSW Interactive panel proposals from Portland
It’s that time of year again. Time for folks to be voting on the SXSW Interactive talks they’d like to see—all via the SXSW 2011 ...
Silicon Florist
August 17, 2010
Paperbacking Portland geogeeking: Adam DuVander releases Map Scripting 101
Yes, I realize “paperbacking” isn’t word. But you hip kids Google and Skype and whatnot. I thought you would give me a little leeway. Or something. What’s that? Whoa whoa whoa. “Geogeeking” ...
Silicon Florist
August 16, 2010
Reminder: New Relic Lunch 2.0 is Wednesday
It’s that time again.
New Relic, providers of cloud-based tools to monitor, optimize and troubleshoot Java, Ruby and JRuby web applications, will be welcoming us into their offices this Wednesday, August 16, for ...
Silicon Florist
August 16, 2010
Another Portlander plans to revolutionize banking: Bill DeRouchey joins BankSimple
BankSimple isn’t a Portland company, per se, but co-founder and Chief Product and Technology Officer, Alex Payne, lives here in Portland. So much like ...
Silicon Florist
August 13, 2010
Free beer (and job offers) from Wieden + Kennedy at Beer and Blog this week. No word on the Old Spice sample packs.
You’ve just created one of the most talked about advertising campaigns in the history of the Web. What are you going to do?
Well, if you’re Portland advertising powerhouse ...
