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  • Invited to Microsoft Search Champs v4

    Ideacodes co-founders, Emily Chang (and eHub) and Max Kiesler, have been invited to Microsoft Search Champs v4 to take place in Redmond at Microsoft HQ from January 24-26.  (Update: See Emily’s report…

    December 20, 2005

  • eHub Mentioned on Google Code

    Google Code, Google’s place for Open Source software, has MapBuilder as its featured project (congrats to the founder, Andrew Bidochko!) and a link to eHub Interviews MapBuilder.

    December 9, 2005

  • eHub and EmilyChang.com Join the Corante Network Web Hub

    eHub and EmilyChang.com Join the Corante Network Web Hub, “your starting point for keeping abreast of the best writing and thinking on the forces and factors impacting the Web and where it’s…

    November 30, 2005

  • eHub and EmilyChang.com Join the Web 2.0 Workgroup

    I’m happy to announce that both eHub and emilychang.com have been invited to join the Web 2.0 Workgroup, a network created last month by Michael Arrington of TechCrunch, Richard MacManus of Read/WriteWeb,…

    November 15, 2005

  • eHub Cited in Forbes

    In his article today at Forbes.com, Matt Rand discusses Microsoft’s Live.com portal and cites eHub.  Read Rand’s full article, Microsoft’s Model Turns Left.

    November 5, 2005

  • EmilyChang.com Ranked in Technorati Top 1000

    Launched only two months ago, EmilyChang.com, which includes the popular eHub resource, is now ranked in the Technorati Top 1000 blogs, an authority calculation based on number of inbound sites and links. …

    November 5, 2005

  • Pretty Supr

    SuprGlu “gathers your content from popular web services and publishes them in one convenient place.” My first thought was that it sounded like another simple feed aggregator. I gave SuprGlu a spin…

    November 5, 2005

  • New eHub Interviews in Japanese

    I’m pleased to announce a new set of eHub Interviews (Netvibes, Codase, goowy, ColorBlender, Last.fm) has been translated into Japanese by the exceptional Ryutaro Kamitsu. Please visit the links below for the…

    November 5, 2005

  • EmilyChang.com Ranked in Technorati Top 1000

    On November 1, after two weeks without updates (to inbound links and sites in the Technorati statistics), I logged into Technorati to find my site had jumped in rank from 1,616 (801…

    November 4, 2005

  • The Future Hasn’t Arrived Yet

    I came across an old blog post of mine that caused a double-take. The post, titled “One-Screen Access to Your Life” isn’t about Netvibes or another Web 2.0 application, but cites a…

    October 29, 2005

  • Mobisodes

    In “Pocket-size screen’s new rules”, Laura M. Holson writes: Mobisodes are more popular among teenagers in Europe and Asia, largely because the advanced technology in use there makes it easier for them…

    October 23, 2005

  • eHub Needs Your Opinion

    [Update: This post is left up for historical reasons. Since the date of this post, Charlie and I have emailed and we called a truce in the comments below. This is a…

    October 22, 2005

  • Cactus Friends

    One of my favorite new character designs is cactus girl from tokidoki, a series of art, t-shirts and accessories by Italian artist Simone Legno.  I’m pleased to see he’s launching cool new…

    October 21, 2005

  • eHub Interviews at the Speed of Web 2.0

    eHub has been thrilled to hear from so many of the creators of web 2.0 applications, services, and sites.  There are already twenty live eHub Interviews including:  BlinkList, CafeSpot, CentralDesktop, CiteULike, Codase,…

    October 17, 2005

  • I Love Giant Robot

    Our new t-shirts from Giant Robot SF (Max’s is 2K and mine’s Gamma-Go).

    October 16, 2005

  • The Social (Activist) Web

    Like you, I’ve been reading much of the commentary online about Web 2.0 at various blogs and sites the last month or so, and particularly this last week as the O’Reilly Web…

    October 15, 2005

  • eHub turns One (Month)

    eHub turns one month old today.  Read the blog post, a Statistical Month in Review.

    October 12, 2005

  • A Statistical Month in Review

    Today is the one month birthday of eHub. I started blogging here at emilychang.com on September 3. A week later, I made eHub as a resource to keep up with the rapid-fire…

    October 12, 2005

  • RoboSapien

    Oh yes, please. I’ll take a RoboSapien v2 (around $229 USD)! RoboSapien is a toy-like biomorphic robot designed by Mark Tilden and produced by Wow Wee toys. The RoboSapien is preprogrammed with…

    October 12, 2005

  • Medicine Eat Station

    I’ve been a vegetarian for more than ten years now so of course, I was excited to try the new-shojin food at Medicine Eat Station. The minimalistic, all vegetarian dishes date back…

    October 8, 2005

  • eHub Interviews Translated into Japanese

    Thanks to Ryutaro Kamitsu, select eHub Interviews will be translated into Japanese.  Ryutaro plans to translate eHub Interviews Netvibes, Kiko, and Writely, and has already translated eHub Interviews Protopage in Japanese.  The…

    October 8, 2005

  • Kevin Kelly: Out of Control

    Though it was written more than ten years ago, this caught my attention and seemed particularly relevant again.  From Kevin Kelly’s Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and…

    October 7, 2005

  • eHub on Digg

    eHub pops onto Digg with over 540 diggs and traffic quadruples on eHub’s server.  Thanks Diggers!

    October 6, 2005

  • eHub makes PubSub Top 100 Sites

    eHub makes PubSub Top 100 Sites by Daily LinkRank.  LinkRanks is PubSub’s method of measuring the strength, persistence, and vitality of links appearing in over 16 million sources that PubSub monitors.  See…

    October 5, 2005

  • eHub Makes Daypop Top 40

    eHub shoots to the number 5 spot on Daypop’s Top 40 for October 2 and 3.  The Daypop Top 40 is a list of links that are currently popular with webloggers from…

    October 5, 2005

  • eHub Interviews Launches

    eHub Interviews launches featuring four interviews with creators of web 2.0 applications, including Writely, Protopage, CommunityWalk, CentralDesktop. New interviews will be launching daily at eHub Interviews. Stay tuned for interviews with Netvibes,…

    October 5, 2005

  • eHub Interviews to Launch the Week of Web 2.0

    eHub Interviews, a series of email interviews with the creators of Web 2.0 applications and services, will launch this week (October 3-8, 2005) as part of the unofficial Web 2.0 week here…

    October 3, 2005

  • eHub Hits 1000 in del.icio.us

    Emily Chang’s eHub hits 1000 bookmarks in del.icio.us and slides into the top spot on del.icio.us popular after a wave of new linking and posts from bloggers, including Seth Godin, Stowe Boyd…

    October 1, 2005

  • AJAX Image Gallery Examples – Alpha Release

    We’re pleased to provide an alpha release of two examples of AJAX image galleries by Max Kiesler and Emily Chang of Ideacodes. One uses PHP and MySQL and the other requires no…

    October 1, 2005

  • Google Wants to Provide Free Wi-Fi for San Francisco

    San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom made it a goal to provide a free or inexpensive citywide network last year and bids were submitted by competing firms this Friday, mostly by ISP companies. …

    October 1, 2005