While I was goofing off this weekend, others were hard at work, reports Oregon’s best reporter on startups, Rick Turoczy who covered Portland Startup Weekend and WebVisions 2008.
Web Visions, which explores the future of the Web, featured two days of sessions and great speakers (slide presentations).
Jason Grigsby of Mobile Portland, says adoption of the mobile Web is taking off with the release of the iPhone and Google’s Android mobile operating system.
His presentation (below) has convincing facts and figures. It was selected as the “Slideshow of the Day” on Slideshare.net.
You can view the embedded version of it here, or view the presentation at Slideshare.net.
Another interesting presentation was How the Internet is Redefining Environmentalism” by Alexis Madrigal, a staff writer at Wired.
Rick’s Silicon Florist is the go-to place in Oregon for technology news.
In-Stat forecasts some 230 million mobile subscribers globally using mobile social networking services by 2012. Social network advertising 2008 revenues are predicted to be over $1.5 billon.
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