Silicon Florist 🌹 Help Portland win a Webby, VC is down 💸

Issue 743

Apr 13, 2024

Please vote: World’s smallest park’s teeny tiny webpage up for a Webby

There are a few things waterfront-ish sort of things that are just kind of considered general knowledge around Portland. You know things like the White-Satin-White-Stag-Made-in-Oregon-Portland-Oregon-sign stag turns into Rudolph every year. That Tom McCall Waterfront Park could have very well been a freeway. And Naito Parkway is home to the world’s smallest park, Mill Ends Park. But what you may not know is that Mill Ends Park now has a homepage on the Web. And it’s as dinky as the park itself, 3×3 pixels. Which earned the site a nomination for the Webbys this year. So you should vote for it… More

Are you sitting down? Venture Capital investments are down in Portland

I know, I know. It comes as quite a shock. After living in a region where the venture capital flowed so effortlessly for so many years… Oh wait. Sorry. I was looking at the wrong thing. VC investments are down in the Portland area. Way down. Not that they were ever up to a crazy level. But they’ve been better… More

Questions about Portland startups…?

Radious takes “work from (somebody else’s) home” nationwide

Remember Radious…? They’re the Portland startup that provides on demand workspace for folks — by activating homes for the workday the same way Airbnb does for the… um… sleepytime? Anyway… last time I checked in with them, they were excited to be expanding to the Bay Area. So you can only imagine their excitement now. Radious is going nationwide… More

Web 2.0 nostalgia: Marshall Kirkpatrick’s early days at ReadWriteWeb

You might not realize the role that Portland — and to that extent a couple of particular Portland writers — played in the era that was Web 2.0. One of them was Adam DuVander who served as the editor of Programmable Web, the repository for a wealth of the information on the APIs that drove Web 2.0. And the other was the first writer hired at TechCrunch who then wound up as co-editor at ReadWriteWeb, Marshall Kirkpatrick… More