[Editor’s note: Continuing the Silicon Florist’s guest editorial series, we welcome Scott Kveton, a well-known force-of-nature in the Portland technology community. And, as you’ll see, the de facto Chamber of Commerce for the Portland s...

[Editor’s Note: Why an article on airports? What does that have to do with startups or geeks? Well, there are a couple of things. First and foremost, when I started out on my own, I thought I would be sitting around in my home office, eating bon-b...

Jive Software, the rapidly growing young linchpin of the Portland tech startup renaissance, has been hinting for some time that it was getting a bit too big for its britches building. And with its need to hire showing no signs of slowing, it became clear...

I was recently introduced to Portland-based Vocal Nation, a service that is part feed reader, part social political-news system.Okay, I hear you. Any time the term “social news” is bandied about, the phrase “Digg clone” immediate...

Sometimes, a link says more than I could ever say. Here are some fragrant little buds I’ve found recently, courtesy of ma.gnolia.Improving entrepreneurship in your city.Aside from #7 (which might be more appropriate as “state and localR...

[Editor: This is Portland. And this is why I love Portland. New Vidoop transplants ask a few questions, and Portland responds. And, as I read through this response, it struck me as a perfect “Why Portland?” entry. So, Portvangelist Amy Winkel...

Earlier today, Portland’s Marshall Kirkpatrick had a post on the first Google Friend Connect widget observed outside of captivity, in its natural habitat:Prominent Israeli tech blogger Orli Yakuel has just installed the first Google Friend Connect...

WebVisions 2008 in podcastsFrom the WebVisions blog “The following is a selection of presentation podcasts from WebVisions 2008. You can view many of the presentation files on the WebVisions 2008 page on Slideshare.net.”Screenshots from ou...

Hiring a Community ManagerDawn Foster writes “Hiring a community manager can be tricky for companies, especially ones filling this position for the first time. Last week, someone told me they wanted to hire a community manager and asked me if I c...

Portland-based COLOURlovers has had quite a run as of late. Nominated for a Webby twice in a row. Winning a WebVisions Web Visionary Award. And now this: COLOURlovers has been nominated as one of the top 50 sites for 2008 by Time Magazine.Now, I was Tim...