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James Rice Explains Marketing & PR Plans to Colaboratory Members at CoatesKokes 2008-08-09 02:39:06 A Colaboratory Visit
Today, Bram Pitoyo and I visited CoatesKokes to see what the Portland Colaboratory members were up to. The two Colaboratory teams were hard at work on their final PR and Marketing
pitch for Sameunderneath. We watched them interview some CoatesKokes employees about what the Sameunderneath brand stood for. After about an hour of [...] Read more:James
, Members
Mobile Communities and New Technologies | An Urban Grind Tweetup 2008-08-06 01:49:33 Urban Grind
North West is, I think, the predominate manufacturer of Twitter synchronicities in PDX” - Jeremy Wilkin, via Twitter.
An amazing discussion happened today between a number of Tweeple, namely Gabriel (@sirgabe) and @jerwilkins of Tinderbox Creative. Of course, @brampitoyo was there, and @donpdonp & @pdxflaneur also stopped by. Also, @xtalwiese was there for a [...] Read more:Communities
, Mobile
, Urban
Hazelnut Tech Talk Episode 5 | An Interview with Toonlet 2008-08-05 00:37:40 Click to Subscribe
Hazelnut Tech Talk is a collaboration between Amber Case and Bram Pitoyo.
Our fifth episode features Craig Schwartz from toonlet, wherein we talked about how the web bubble burst helped form FooCamp, why San Fransiscans are dastardly good at spotting werewolfs, history and future of the button, BlackBerry camp, ribs breakage due to excessive [...] Read more:Episode
Time Management Tips from the Baraka Institute of Portland, Oregon 2008-08-03 18:24:00 The Baraka Institute
is the brainchild of the fiery Feroshia Knight, an entrepreneur, life coach, and teacher. She’s new to Twitter, but wanted to take a brief break from her entrance into the social world to give me (and the world) five time management tips.
As an instructor at Baraka Institute, Feroshia illuminates the classroom with [...] Read more:Management
, Oregon
, Time Management
Notes from a Mobile Encounter with James Whitley of GoLifeMobile 2008-08-02 05:44:41 Before Carolynn Duncan’s Lunch with a VC Presentation, we all met at Pho Green Papaya. I sat across from David Kominsky, cofounder of Cubespace and Rick Turozy of Silicon Florist. On my right was James
Whitley, CEO of GoLife Mobile
About halfway through lunch, the conversation turned to the future of the mobile phone.
Advanced Mobile [...] Read more:Encounter
, Notes
Lunch with Carolynn Duncan of Epic Ventures at Cubespace 2008-08-02 03:30:11 When, Where, Why?
There was an event this Wednesday at Cubespace called “Lunch
with a VC”. The VC in this case was Carolynn Duncan
. She has three projects going right now: www.fundinguniverse.com, Epic Ventures
, Hundred Dollar Business (a series of brilliant startups using less than one hundred dollars each).
New Ventures
While I wasn’t able to stay after [...]
Hazelnut Tech Talk Episode 4 | The CoLab Experience 2008-07-29 03:24:38 Click to Subscribe
Hazelnut Tech Talk is a collaboration between Amber Case and Bram Pitoyo.
Our fourth episode was recorded right after Cre8Camp and featured Christine Vo and Kim Karalekas, two extremely talented, dedicated individuals with the guts and wit to take on a demanding and often stressful internship program.
We covered topics such as COLABORATORY’s application process, [...] Read more:Episode
Cre8Camp Portland Beats iPhone’s Twitter Buzz 2008-07-26 17:06:42 What’s creative and groundbreaking, and capable of topping iPhone
buzz on Twitter
?
It’s Cre8Camp, the inaugural unconference that brought 50 creatives to SOUK, a coworking space (322 NW 6th Avenue), this Saturday. Within the first hour of introduction and networking, about 24 topics were developed for discussion, and groups of creatives went off to various [...] Read more:Beats
Ning Presentation on Online Brand Communities at Nemo 2008-07-25 20:49:45 Today there was a Lunch and presentation at Nemo on using Ning for customized social networks. Dave Allen, Director of Insights & Digital Media at Nemo, introduced Rachel, who demonstrated the customized functions of Ning.
Dave Allen:
The purpose of this lunch and demonstration is to create a sort of town hall meeting.
Nemo is a 11 year [...] Read more:Brand
, Communities
From Telephone to Tweetup | An Inverge Presentation 2008-08-26 11:01:44 On Sept. 4+5 an interdisciplinary thought-leader event will hit Portland. The name of the Conference is Inverge: The Interactive Convergence.
What is Inverge?
An interdisciplinary event that focuses on the convergence of media platforms, of virtual + physical, content + advertising, and corporate content + consumer-generated content.
The presentations are high-level, informative and conceptual, po
Hazelnut Tech Talk Episode 8 | An Interview with Sarah Lacy in Portland, Oregon 2008-08-25 01:37:09 Click to Subscribe
Hazelnut Tech Talk is a collaboration between Amber Case and Bram Pitoyo
.In this Episode
of Hazelnut Tech Talk, we bring you Sarah
Lacy, columnist for BusinessWeek. During the podcast, Lacey talks about her new book, Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: the Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0, how she organizes a billion things a [...] Read more:Oregon
A Short Introduction to Cyborg Anthropology 2008-08-22 19:22:17 A cyborg (shorthand for “cybernetic organism”) is a symbiotic fusion of human and machine.
Humans have always developed technologies to help them survive and thrive, but in recent decades the rapid escalation and intensification of the human-technology interface have exceeded anything heretofore known. From satellite communications to genetic engineering, high technologies have penetrated and Read more:Cyborg
, Introduction
, Short
Gnomedex in Three Days | A Social Media Journey 2008-08-21 01:42:53 I won’t be in Portland for the next few days. That’s because I’ll be attending Gnomedex in Seattle.
I’ll be live-tweeting, podcasting, and blogging from the event. That is, if there is any time between meeting and greeting amazing people.
What is Gnomedex?
Gnomedex is an event that will host some of the world’s leading bloggers, podcasters, videobloggers, [...] Read more:Journey
, Social
, Social Media
, Three
, Three Days
Hazelnut Tech Talk Episode 7 | An Interview With Steven Walling of AboutUs.org 2008-08-19 01:44:11 Click to Subscribe
Hazelnut Tech Talk is a collaboration between Amber Case and Bram Pitoyo.
Our seventh episode was recorded the evening after Bear and Blog and features Steven
Walling, Wikipedia Extraordinaire and chicken tender who works with Wiki inventor Ward Cunningham at Portland’s AboutUs.org, wherein we talked about using Wiki as an academic source (and getting [...] Read more:Episode
What Does it Take to Ignite Portland? 2008-08-19 01:31:21 If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds?
Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers. But Portland’s own event, Ignite Portland, will be happening soon, and it is a chance for locals [...]
Portland Pecha Kucha Night | A Review of Eight Rapid Fire Presentations 2008-08-18 03:09:51 Volume Four of Portland’s Pecha Kucha Series was held last Tuesday, August 12th, 2008.
This particular session was located on NW 8th and Couch Street in artists place that was currently under construction. There was a random amalgamation of wooden benches on the floor facing a large presentation screen. The event was free, and so was [...] Read more:Eight
, Night
, Rapid
Presentation is the Product | A Colaboratory Wrap-Up 2008-08-18 00:01:53 Today at 2Pm, all of the members of Portland Advertising Federation’s Colaboratory program presented their final marketing plan to Sameunderneath, a local sustainable clothing company.
Team Lattice showed a 5 minute video about their experiences before delving into the presentation.
The Lattice Presentation
Research and Strategy
Digital Brand Experience
In-Store Branding
Spreading Awareness
Portland Shizzow Successful in Private Beta Release 2008-08-12 02:10:53 Shizzow was released today in Private
Beta to various members of the Portland Tech Community - or at least a lot of Portland Twitter folk.
Shizzow is Portland-based social network Geolocation service with exceptional data granularity. That means that it is possible to define your own location (my house is Caseorganic Laboratories and Bram’s is Link [...] Read more:Release
Hazelnut Tech Talk Episode 6 | The CoLab Experience #2 2008-08-12 02:08:07 Click to Subscribe
Hazelnut Tech Talk is a collaboration between Amber Case and Bram Pitoyo.
Our sixth episode features Megan Nuttall and Allison McKeever, two members of the COLABORATORY program from the team Lattice.
An interview with two members from the opposing team, Kiwi, was aired two weeks ago.
This episode covers James Rice, websites that scroll horizontally, lost [...] Read more:Episode
Bringing BlogHer ‘09 to Portland Would Probably Be a Good Idea 2008-09-18 16:33:10 Portland rocks. It has excellent food, coffee, people, techies, transportation, foliage, entertainment, and bloggers! But we have suffered a tragedy: we just lost OSCON to San Jose. What!? From Jul 17-19, 2009 Lets replace it with something equally tremendous. And we can.
How?
With this handy Google Spreadsheet Form.
Yep, that’s four lines of text you have [...] Read more:Probably
Caseorganic Labs Moves NE 2008-09-16 09:55:55 Historical Perspective
When I was six, my mom felt it necessary for me to read the books that she read when she was little. One week, we headed to the Powell’s books of West - the Tattered Cover Book Store in downtown Denver, Colorado. A few hours later, we were on our way home with a [...]
Hazelnut Tech Talk Episode 10 | A Dinner Discussion With Reid Beels And Chris Pitzer 2008-09-15 18:44:44 Click to Subscribe
Hazelnut Tech Talk is a collaboration between Amber Case and Bram Pitoyo
This episode features Reid Beels and Chris
Pitzer, wherein we talked about abandonware, search engines with unique algorithms, Cyber Surfari-adorned T-shirt, getting free meals for reading books, and a potential CyborgCamp session composed of scientifically extrapolating claims in science fiction stories of Read more:Dinner
, Discussion
, Episode
Design Experiences, Not Websites | A Refresh Portland Review 2008-09-11 02:30:24 The first ever Refresh
Portland occurred tonight from 6:30 to 8:00 Pm at Jive Software in Downtown Portland.
Tonight’s speaker was Tyler Sticka, an award-winning designer, artist, speaker and educator specializing in identity-driven new media. He was extremely well prepared and engaging.
Micheal Sigler @sigler began by introducing the concept of Refresh.
“Cities have been Refreshing fo Read more:Websites
CyborgCamp 2008 | A Conference Born in an Afternoon 2008-09-10 14:19:42 Note: Dates and venues are pretty much set for CyborgCamp!
You can now:
RSVP for CyborgCamp Portland
RSVP CyborgCamp Vancouver
I never saw it coming
CyborgCamp occured at around 10Am from a shoutout by Kris Krug and Dave Olson of RainCityStudios. I met them both at Gnomedex and we got along really well.
The only problem was that they both lived [...] Read more:Afternoon
Trimet arrival times through SMS with Sam Keen 2008-09-09 22:24:30 PHP: Adding SMS
to Trimet TransitTracker was an event that occurred tonight from 6:30-8:00Pm at CubeSpace.
How to Get Portland Trimet arrival
times through SMS
Simply text “pdxt {stop_id}” to 368674
For example, texting…
pdxt 8334 to DOTORG (368674) will return results similar to this <—-
Sam Keen demonstrated how he took the existing Trimet TransitTracker service an
The Programmable Web | A Quick and Dirty Mashup Review 2008-09-09 15:16:47 Mashups and API’s are some of the best ways to get customized, rich data that is not accessible by one site alone.
Mashups use API’s to gather different data streams into ones that allow less user action to useful data ratios.
As search-expert Rand Fishkin of Seomoz.org pointed out, “One of One of the best resources out [...] Read more:Mashup
, Programmable
, Quick
Featured Download: Thesis on Cell Phones and Cyborg Anthropology 2008-09-04 12:01:03 I wrote my thesis on the application of Cyborg
Anthropology to Cell Phone use. Since then, I’ve had numerous requests to download it.
It is due to these requests that I’ve made it downloadable from this site. The title of it is Phones
.htm">Cell Phones
and its Technosocial Sites of Engagement. If you have any questions, please [...] Read more:Download
, Featured
, Thesis
Hazelnut Tech Talk Episode 9 | Steve Gehlen, Inverge, Banjos, and the Future of Portland 2008-08-30 12:44:49 Hazelnut Tech Talk is a collaboration between Amber Case and Bram Pitoyo.
This episode features Steve
Gehlen, Founder & Producer of Portland’s Inverge: The Interactive Convergence Conference that will occur on from 8Am-5Pm on September 4+5, 2008 at the Gerding Theater at the Armory (128 NW 11th Avenue), and Cre8Con,
Steve Gehlen had many great things [...] Read more:Episode
, Future
Time and Space Compression through Ubiquity 2008-08-27 02:46:38 To a user, every click is a time-value liability. Every tab is a waste of time and space. The key is to reduce the amount of clicks needed .
Mozilla’s Ubiquity is concerned with reducing the time and space it takes to transfer user relevant information.
Do I trust that Mozilla will reduce the time-value liability incurred [...] Read more:Compression
, Space
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