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  • TechCrunch 5 Party

    Mike Arrington’s TechCrunch 5 party for Shel Israel and Robert Scoble’s new book, Naked Conversations, was a big success on Friday night in Atherton, CA. Some 400 people showed up at Mike’s…

  • Emily Chang featured in Designers Who Blog

    Thanks to Catherine (cat) Morley, creator of Designers Who Blog, for featuring EmilyChang.com and eHub!  Read Cat’s entry about eHub here.

  • The Agile Web Design Manifesto, An Introduction

    Co-authored by Emily Chang and Max Kiesler of Ideacodes. On August 20, 1980, Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler were the first to summit Mount Everest without the use of bottled oxygen. They…

  • Design 2.0: Minimalism, Transparency, and You

    Today happens to be the four month anniversary of eHub Interviews, a series of email questions and answers with the creators and companies behind many of the new web 2.0 services and…

  • Twenty Years Later: No Longer Just a Hobby

    Today turns out to be the twenty year anniversary of when George Lucas sold Pixar to Steve Jobs. In the post, “February 3, 1986: Divorce, Mogul Style,” Chris Seibold tells how Lucas…

  • Stanford on iTunes

    Having spent many years developing web products for higher education, I’m always interested when universities or colleges open up their knowledge banks to the public using new technologies (see OpenCourseWare Finder). I…

  • ExpressionEngine Contest

    I’m pleased to announce that my Ideacodes partner, Max Kiesler and I will be on a panel of judges for the ExpressionEngine $15,000 Shootout. Contest entries can be Commercial, Personal, and Core…

  • Designing for Mary Hodder and Dabble

    Our company, Ideacodes, is pleased to be working with Mary Hodder, CEO of Dabble, to provide identity, UI, and user experience design for her next generation web application. 

  • JP Morgan and Connector Group Showcase

    The JP Morgan and Connector Group Showcase, “a unique forum for companies to introduce their leading-edge products and services to the Silicon Valley’s elite group of tastemakers and influencers ,” took place…

  • Yahoo! Design Group Dinner

    We had the wonderful opportunity to attend an informal dinner on Monday night here in SF with the Yahoo! design group and a mix of fellow designers, developers, and even some HCI…

  • Ajax Calendaring with Spongecell

    I received email from Marc Guldimann tonight from Spongecell, an “absorbful calendar.” They’re having a launch party here in San Francisco at Ritual Roasters on Wednesday and we’ll be stopping by. There…

  • New Startups and Web 2.0 Products Debut at E27 Technology Symposium

    Earlier today, I went to the E27 Technology Symposium at Stanford University. E27 is “a forum for young entrepreneurs to showcase their upcoming or new products to influential representatives from newspapers, popular…

  • Microsoft Search Champs v4

    My partner at Ideacodes, Max Kiesler, and I are back from attending Search Champs which took place this week, January 24 – 26 at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond. Search Champs is an…

  • The Beat Museum

    Jerry Cimino opens the Beat Museum in San Francisco.  I wish I had been able to make the opening to see the guest of honor – Carolyn Cassady, the 82-year-old widow of…

  • Ideacodes Redesigns CommunityWalk’s Front Page

    CommunityWalk is a web 2.0 user created community with location mapping, photos and multimedia, and much more.  My company, Ideacodes, worked with Jared Cosulich, CEO and founder, to reshape the strategy, design,…

  • Extinction alert for 800 species

    In the BBC article, “Extinction alert for 800 species,” researchers have compiled a global map of sites where animals and plants face imminent extinction. “It’s impossible to know or predict how long…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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.

  • 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. …

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…