http://blog.bendtech.com A Grassroots Experiment In Building Central Oregon's Tech Community Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:42:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bendtech/main/~3/GUhblYvmni0/ http://blog.bendtech.com/2012/01/power-quote/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:41:27 +0000 Robert Kieffer http://blog.bendtech.com/?p=2423 From Thomas L. Friedman&#8217;s recent, So Much Fun. So Irrelevant.: The best of these ecosystems will be cities and towns that combine a university, an educated populace, a dynamic business community and the fastest broadband connections on earth. These will be the job factories of the future. There&#8217;s weeks worth of conversation about Central Oregon&#8217;s [...]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bendtech/main/~4/GUhblYvmni0" height="1" width="1"/> http://blog.bendtech.com/2012/01/power-quote/feed/ 0 http://blog.bendtech.com/2012/01/power-quote/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bendtech/main/~3/tuCmvoJzGhY/ http://blog.bendtech.com/2011/12/the-chilean-connection/#comments Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:35:33 +0000 Robert Kieffer http://blog.bendtech.com/?p=2413 Chile has been making headlines recently with Start Up Chile, a government backed initiative to attract foreign startups and investors. .   Recently Arnon Kohavi of Yarden VC spent 6 months in Chile in an attempt to build out a $40M fund. As always, I see a lot of parallels between this sort of thing and our humble [...]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bendtech/main/~4/tuCmvoJzGhY" height="1" width="1"/> http://blog.bendtech.com/2011/12/the-chilean-connection/feed/ 0 http://blog.bendtech.com/2011/12/the-chilean-connection/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bendtech/main/~3/ZIbda9hjplo/ http://blog.bendtech.com/2011/12/conepatrol-com/#comments Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:15:28 +0000 Robert Kieffer http://blog.bendtech.com/?p=2410 Holy hell, if this doesn&#8217;t qualify as local tech blog news, I don&#8217;t know what does! Local hacker, Timmy Crawford has put up ConePatrol.com, a site that lets you sign up for SMS notifications when Bachelor gets new powder.  So sweet! I just signed up for alerts when it snows 4&#8243; or more. (And you [...]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bendtech/main/~4/ZIbda9hjplo" height="1" width="1"/> http://blog.bendtech.com/2011/12/conepatrol-com/feed/ 1 http://blog.bendtech.com/2011/12/conepatrol-com/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bendtech/main/~3/uFU2AGNcYos/ http://blog.bendtech.com/2011/12/walkscore-com/#comments Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:44:51 +0000 Robert Kieffer http://blog.bendtech.com/?p=2404 Just found (and instantly fell in love with) walkscore.com. Rates any location based on proximity of the nearest park, library, coffee shop, bank, etc. For example, downtown Bend is a &#8220;Walker&#8217;s Paradise&#8221;  at 92/100 points, while (interestingly) Northwest Crossing is &#8220;Car Dependent&#8221; with only 49/100. Any of you NWX residents care to agree with or dispute that? [...]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bendtech/main/~4/uFU2AGNcYos" height="1" width="1"/> http://blog.bendtech.com/2011/12/walkscore-com/feed/ 1 http://blog.bendtech.com/2011/12/walkscore-com/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bendtech/main/~3/lQFvFgs-HOc/ http://blog.bendtech.com/2011/10/10-thing/#comments Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:29:14 +0000 Robert Kieffer http://blog.bendtech.com/?p=2400 An light-yet-thought-provoking read for entrepreneurs, The 10 Mistakes I&#8217;ve Made So You Don&#8217;t Have To.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bendtech/main/~4/lQFvFgs-HOc" height="1" width="1"/> http://blog.bendtech.com/2011/10/10-thing/feed/ 0 http://blog.bendtech.com/2011/10/10-thing/