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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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

[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...