ORblogs Topic: silicon

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,...

Having survived in Orange County for three years and lived to tell my silicone-free, pudgy tale, I find the place mostly horrific and sometimes amusing. But is making fun of the nouveau riche ever really funny? I mean, it's like poking fun at George W.'s butchery of our native tongue: shooting oversized, resource-wasting,...

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...

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...

Looking for a new gig? You might want to take a look at the Silicon Florist Gig board to see what's what. Web startup looking to hire? Use the discount code freebie to post your open gigs for free. Or maybe you're a Portvangelist-to-be looking to move to the Rose City? Or someone who already lives here who's looking for something new to do or a side project? Well, don't be shy....

The Portland Pulse beats in 4/4 time Michael Kelly writes "Since Intrigo has moved offices to Portland, the substantial amount of tech resources to both pull and contribute to trumps any other city I’ve been intimate with. Portland is an enabler, connector, grower, and supporter of it’s business residents. I can’t say this about Tucson or any other (unnamed) cities."...

BarCamp Portland Looking for more details on what's happening at BarCamp Portland? Look no further. This site is a great place to keep up to date with BarCamp Portland schedule and notes from the sessions. What is BarCamp? Pete Forsyth writes "BarCamp is clearly born of the tech community. It has a wiki for session planning. Participants are encouraged to share their Twitter and blog...

Startups: The beat goes on Abraham Hyatt writes "As Oregon’s economy begins to slide, the startup community is coming off of a record year for raising funds: nearly $226 million. Companies are moving into hip new spaces in downtown Portland. Other companies from out of state, Vidoop is one example, are opening offices here." View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia...

Beer & Roll-Up-Your-Sleeves: Help out Legion of Tech set up for BarCamp Justin Kistner writes "This Friday will be the awesomely fun Portland BarCamp. Most of the Beer and Bloggers will be attending this event, which starts at 6pm. So, rather than try to sprint to BarCamp from the Green Dragon, we’re going to roll up some sleeves and help the Legion of Tech crew get set up." The Weekly...

Raw Mobile Browser Data Released Via the Cloud Four blog "We’ve been asked by a few people if we can release the preliminary data that we’re gathering in our Mobile Browser Concurrency Test. So here you go: raw data from the mobile concurrency test." mr. diggles - commuter feed + you Portland mutual admiration society. Mr. Diggles writes of Commuter Feed "i thought this was a nice use...