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Web Innovators – this year’s topics

29. October 2007

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The Portland Web Innovators have had a number of great meetings since Ryan and I cooked up the idea in February 2006. This year, especially, has had some great speakers and topics. Here are a few selected meetings from 2007: Firefox 3 preview with Dietrich Ayala Commoditization of Web Applications with Marshall Kirkpatrick Side Project as Resume with [...]

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BestPlaces zooming away

22. June 2007

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Earlier this week, BestPlaces added a small new feature, which drastically increases the usefulness of the site. Internally, we call it the zoomer, and it allows our visitors to view a greater area around places they are researching. Essentially, when viewing a city (Portland, for example), you can zoom in on zip codes and zoom out [...]

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Find Portland hotspots from your mobile phone

22. May 2007

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I’m excited to introduce Text WifiPDX, a service to find nearby WiFi hotspots (in Portland): Three easy steps Create your message in the format Wifi <address> Send the text to 41411 Wait for the quick response This is a feature that has been complete for well over a year. When my hard-wired WiFi brain isn’t working, I’ve been able to [...]

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BestPlaces in NYT

7. May 2007

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Yesterday morning we walked down to Crema for a pastry, some coffee, and the Sunday New York Times. I knew there was a profile of Bert, the head researcher for BestPlaces. I didn’t know it would be plastered across the front page of the real estate section. Pretty cool. The article was a pretty good overview [...]

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Wordpress creates programmers

19. April 2007

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I’ve been ruminating for awhile, years really, about how important programmers are to the Web. This thought on the blog software WordPress is part of an overall manifesto encouraging coders to be People’s Programmers. If you’d like to see this manifesto make its way to the masses, consider voting for it here. The stuff that People’s [...]

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AARP Location Scout nominated

3. April 2007

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A project I worked on last year for AARP Magazine has been nominated in the Uses of Interactivity category by Media Industry Newsletter. It’s a BestPlaces tool that takes your preferences and finds your top ten locations. Since it’s focused on retirement, it has a few questions that might not be for everybody, but check [...]

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WiFi ubiquity doesn’t stop searching

2. February 2007

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It seems that even though there are more hotspots than ever in Portland, people still want to find the closest, best WiFi. I get several calls a week from people who think I’m MetroFi, the blanket WiFi company. It’s smalltime traffic, but it’s still great growth. It’s two times July’s numbers and has me optimistic about [...]

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Tax time brings a new mini-project

1. February 2007

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Back in early December at a Portland Web Innovators meeting, Ryan and I talked about finding a connection between his

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Portland loves the Web

1. January 2007

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I get the feeling that 2007 is going to give 2006 some real competition in terms of Web advances. I think Portland will see it more than most places. People here are idealistic and creative. There’s no better combination. The trouble has been getting them together, but even that’s easier. For one, Portland Web Innovators, a [...]

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Portland WiFi blanket launched

6. December 2006

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Yesterday marked the first-phase launch of Portland’s WiFi cloud by MetroFi. It’s a pretty optimistic plan that will eventually cover over 100 square miles. I couldn’t be happier. Does it make my Portland WiFi site a little less relevant? Maybe. When I started it over two years ago, I listed about fifty spots. Now there are [...]

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