Come to the Vibrant Data PDX Hackathon! ...

Imagine a world in which data becomes a personal asset that works on behalf of our personal interests and communities. Everyday, apps like yours could control how to send their data out into the world to circulate and bring back value to users. Certainly this would require a change in the way the world views data today, and in the infrastructure that enables it to flow freely while...

Geoloqi Open Data Hackathon at Upstart L...

Come hack on open gov datasets and Geoloqi! We moved into an new office space! We’re sharing it with Upstart Labs, a great new company from the founders of StepChange group (recently acquired by Dachis Group). We’ll have food and drinks, and plenty of interesting things to discuss and work on. The new office has two war rooms for planning and plenty of space for hacking...

Smallest Federated Wiki workshop with Wa...

About Interested in working with Ward Cunningham on his new wiki project? You can on Thursday, October 13th, 2011 at the Portland Incubator Experiment. Wiki-founder Ward Cunningham shared his idea of a Smallest Federated Wiki SFW during IndieWebCamp this June. In a few short weeks, he brought his idea to life and is inviting others to work with him on it. This is the second...

Real-Time Earthquakes and Technosocial S...

Geoloqi: 5.8 earthquake near Virginia on 8/23 1:51pm EDT. Depth: 6km A Sudden Jolt Currently I’m in Malmo, Sweden for a media evolution conference. I was asking some questions on Twitter when suddenly my “All Friends” timeline in Tweetdeck just exploded with tweets all about an earthquake in Virginia that was felt in New York. Earthquakes are one of the most...

An Introduction to Ward Cunningham’...

History Wiki-founder Ward Cunningham shared his idea of a Smallest Federated Wiki SFW during IndieWebCamp this June. In a few short weeks, he brought his idea to life and is inviting others to work with him on it! What is SFW? The Smallest Federated Wiki project wants to be small in the “easy to learn powerful ideas” version of small. It wants to be a wiki so that strangers...

CivicApps for Education Hackathon: A Rec...

On Sunday, May 22nd we held a CivicApps Hackathon at the Portland Incubator Experiment in partnership with the City of Portland, the Mayor’s Office, and Webvisions. The hackathon was dedicated exclusively to making mobile applications for education There was time in the morning for presentations from educators involved with the city, and brainstorming sessions and hacking in the...

Help revolutionize education at the Civi...

Come build apps for education with us! In partnership with the City of Portland and the Mayor’s Office, we’re honored to announce a CivicApps Hackathon dedicated exclusively to making mobile applications for education. There will be time in the morning for ideas and presentations from educators involved with the city, and brainstorming sessions and hacking in the...

I’m Leaving My Day Job to Work Ful...

I’ve made the difficult decision to leave my day job and go full-time with Aaron Parecki and others on Geoloqi. In doing so, I am leaving Vertigo Software, the best company I’ve ever worked for. I remember feeling normal (as a nerd often doesn’t) when I first visited the headquarters last year. I remember finding it easy to talk to everyone about tons of awesome...

Awesome #IxD11 Boulder recap at Ziba Des...

Did you miss last month’s Interaction ’11 conference in Boulder? Did you attend, and want to get a refresher on what you learned there? Come join us for an evening of conference review at Ziba’s 200-person auditorium in the Pearl District! When Wednesday, March 16 at 6:00 pm Pacific Time (US & Canada) Where Ziba Design Auditorium 810 NW Marshall Street Portland,...

DATE CHANGED: The Art of Pop Tech Market...

Want to learn more about the hottest trends in mobile, what futuristic things you can do right now, and what others are doing with mobile in Portland? On March 8th, 2011 Elliott Design Inc. will be putting on an event for technology enthusiasts and marketers at Migration Brewery from 1:30-5:30Pm. The event will feature four speakers from the local tech community, and theme of the event...