Tag: portland
Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center spotlights Silicon Forest opportunity
We’ve all doomscrolled enough through the “doom loop” jibber jabber about our region. It’s nice to see others taking a more positive spin on the potential of the Silicon Forest. (Especially as we appear to have the early indicators of a hardware renaissance happening around here.)
A Beautiful Neighborhood
The story of Neighborhoods, one of the great unheralded albums of the private press era. Read the story of the album and its creator, a Portland jazz icon.
XOXO: crafty makers from the future
I know these things: The mass market will be obsolete. New kinds of enabling technology - including, but not limited to, the Internet - are changing the way people make things, the way they sell them, and the entire mechanics of how marketplaces work. We've been able to create software very easily since the beginning. In fact, the very reason you're reading this now is that I decided, as a kid, that programming languages were my fastest route to building the things I had in my head and shari
Mobile 2.0 and XOXO
On Tuesday (September 11, 2012) I'll be speaking at Mobile 2.0 in San Francisco, on the Addicted to Mobile panel: Research shows that you look at your phone sixty times a day – more often than a heavy smoker (with a 40 cigarette a day habit) smokes… Mobile can look like an addiction to some. To others, it is an opportunity, as it is about immediacy / availability, and the device knows about you and your environment. This panel will discuss the upside and downside of high mobile usage, its value