We’re hosting a party for TechCrunch’s 5th Anniversary. If you’ll be near Portland, OR on June 11th, stop on by! We’ve got some great participants from good local businesses, lots of food and beverages, and some fun giveaways.

Happy teams deliver the best products. Here’s a little insight into some of the ways we structure Think Brilliant. Everyone on our team plays a major role, and everyone’s voice gets heard.

We’ve been working really hard on some new functionality for SoulPancake. We’re rolling out a slew of great stuff in this release, let’s take a moment to go over some of our latest goodies.

After giving readers an inside look into the way we use Basecamp, 37signals highlighted our team’s unique approach on their product blog.

In February, Google announced that it would deploy an experimental Gigabit internet network to a “small number of trial locations across the United States.” The fiber optic network will deliver speeds more than 100 times faster than what Americans have access to today. We want this in Portland.

Over at SoulPancake we send out a weekly email campaign called the Weekly SPoonful. The campaign is a beautifully designed recap of the site’s best content from the prior week. The creation of these emails is dynamic in nature, and we integrated with MailChimp to make it work like magic.

“This Exists: SoulPancake.com Turns Internet Into Smoke-Filled Dorm Room,” Jon Bershad writes for MEDIAite.com.

Communication is at the core of our company. As a team, we are constantly looking for ways to improve the dissemination of information. We primarily use four software products to stay connected, and as one of those products, Basecamp by 37signals plays a pivotal role in our continued success.

As someone who spends most of his working life building web applications, repeated testing can quickly become mundane. Even if I’m in love with the product, testing the same functionality over and over again can turn into a chore. Enter Selenium.