· Latin America is a quickly growing online market.

· It grew from 53.6 million monthly unique visitors to 61.6 million in the past year.

· The growing market is helping social networks grow.

· Sonico says it has 17 million registered users since it launched last July.

· Hi5 is the largest in Spanish-speaking countries.

· Facebook has 116.4 million users worldwide.

· MySpace has 115.7 million users worldwide.

“This in absolutely no way makes up for the ‘poor’ time I’ve had here, but it is pretty.”

· Oregon’s software work force has grown 46% since its low in 2004.

· There are now around 9,500 software jobs in Oregon.

· The computer manufacturing work force is declining in the state.

· Vidoop is mentioned as a company who is growing in Oregon and expects to exceed 100 employees next year….

“In contrast, smaller software and Internet companies are hiring. Kryptiq, for example, has gone from 41 employees in 2004 to more than 100 now; Jive Software, which moved from New York to Portland in 2004, has 155 employees and expects to be at 200 next year; and Vidoop LLC, which develops Internet-security software, has gone from four employees in 2006 to 45 now. Vidoop Vice President Scott Kveton expects to exceed 100 employees next year.”

Mike Rogoway writes “Vidoop says it’s pulling up stakes and moving its HQs from Tulsa to Portland. Scott Kveton has the news on the company’s blog.”

Webware article that talks about cool Web services that use photos instead of text and mentions Vidoop.

Scott Kveton writes “Instead of just complaining, I’m going to continue focusing my efforts where I think I can make the most impact. I’m going to continue working hard to promote and enable the OpenID community, I’m going to continue to encourage and engage in discussions with projects like OAuth, microformats, DiSo and others and I encourage everyone to join me in doing the same.”

Here are 8 tips which will help you manage your RSS feeds in a better manner and avoid RSS overload.

“If you get anything from this article, let it be this:

Use article marketing, link exchanges and other link building and SEO strategies to obtain top 10 rankings for long-tail, niche phrases, but don’t spend your time manually ranking a site or page for a competitive niche, it just doesn’t pay off in the long run!”

“They say enthusiasm is contagious, and it looks like Portland is severely infected.”

Inverge: the interactive convergence conference–happening on Sept. 4+5 in Portland, Oregon–focuses on the convergence of media platforms (transmedia/crossmedia), of virtual + physical, content + advertising, and corporate content + consumer-generated content.