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  • Widgets Live!

    I’m at the Widgets Live! conference this afternoon with a sold-out crowd of widget geeks, technologists, developers, bloggers and execs at the Marines’ Club in San Francisco. Widgets Live! is the first…

  • Vox Launches

    Vox, Six Apart’s new blog service, launched on Oct 26. Vox puts the emphasis on personal blogging and sharing with friends and family. It features advanced privacy controls, a stunning variety of…

  • Ideacodes Designs Themes for Vox

    Vox, Six Apart’s new blog service, launched today.  Vox puts the emphasis on personal blogging and sharing with friends and family.  It features advanced privacy controls, a stunning variety of unique themes,…

  • Stylehive Launch: Party and New Features

    Last Thursday night was the official launch party for Stylehive, the social shopping community focused on new trends, products, designers, stores and experts. The launch party was fabulous. Thanks to everyone that…

  • Stylehive Launches

    Stylehive, the social shopping community focused on new trends, products, designers, stores and experts, launched on Oct 19, coming out of https://www.smileplusdentalcare.co.uk/ventolin-inhalator/ alpha with a host of new features and a big…

  • Bearbricks at Chanel

    Another toy art-meets-couture spotting caught on camera.  These Karl Lagerfeld Bearbricks are on display here in SF at the Chanel store, Maiden Lane, Union Square.  Not sure the cross-branding will be effective…

  • Damien Hirst Manolo Blahniks

    We were strolling through Union Square and I caught this great display of Manolo Blahnik shoes by Damien Hirst at the San Francisco Neiman Marcus Manolo Blahnik retrospective.

  • The Trip Up

    “The Trip Up” is the title of Anousheh Ansari’s blog post from space. Ansari was the first the first civilian to blog from beyond Earth’s orbit. She writes, “Hi everyone, it is…

  • Why I Use Social Software

    Recent posts have been expressing why people don’t like using social software, or believe it’s just a passing fad. Since I disagree, I’ve made a short list of why I do use…

  • Fischerspooner at SF Fashion Week

  • Tell it All

    I’ve had phases where I was really into digital video. In the early 2000s, I shot a lot of footage of my daily life with my one-chip Sony DV cam and turned…

  • Ideacodes Redesigns GigaOM.com

    Ideacodes redesigns the newly launched GigaOM.com, an online news and weblog published by Giga Omni Media Inc., a San Franciso-based company that delivers technology news, analysis and opinions on topics ranging from…

  • 080906

    “Most people spend their lives living in dreary, beige conformity, mortally afraid of using colors. The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination and make their…

  • Ideacodes Working with Sapotek

    Ideacodes has been working on the corporate site for Sapotek Inc., the company that created the first Web-based desktop of its kind in Spanish, Computadora.de, as well as the launch of a…

  • EmilyChang.com Reaches Over 10,000 Daily RSS Subscribers

    EmilyChang.com, launched less than a year ago, has now reached a combined RSS feed total of over 10,000 daily readers.  To grab your own feeds from this site, please visit the subscribe…

  • Ideacodes and Ning

    Ideacodes is pleased to be working with Ning on UI and user experience design for many of Ning’s upcoming features and releases.  Ning is a free online service for cloning, customizing and…

  • eHub Interviews Channel at CNET Japan

    Today, Emily Chang’s eHub Interviews went live as a channel at the Japanese version of News.com.  See Emily’s blog post.

  • eHub Interviews channel at CNET Japan

    Last month I had the pleasure of hearing from Kaori Omoto, an editor at CNET Networks Japan. Today, eHub Interviews went live as a channel at the Japanese version of News.com. CNET…

  • Net Neutrality

    UPDATE: Thursday, June 22 – “When I invented the Web, I didn’t have to ask anyone’s permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that…

  • Yahoo! Photos Redesign

    Yahoo gave a demo to a small group tonight at the Frey Norris Gallery in San Francisco. The event was hosted by Brad Garlinghouse, Vice President of Communications, Community and Front Door…

  • Interviews with German Web 2.0 Services

    Over on his blog, web.XpunktNull.de, Klaas Bollhoefer has an interview series that will interest eHub readers and Web 2.0 users, especially those that speak German. “Inspired by your interviews, which I love…

  • Bubble Portraits

    Julianne Swartz’s Bubble portraits are playful and refreshing, where the ordinary becomes ethereal.  Given my own work with translucent water bubbles, I appreciated her perspective. ps – happy bday eric!

  • Less: alternative living strategies

    maxi capsule luxus by atelier van lieshout, 2002 Some of my favorite artists are showing in “less – alternative living strategies” at the Padiglione d’arte Contemporanea (PAC) in Milan from April 5th…

  • eHub in the Top 100 at Share Your OPML

    Emily Chang’s eHub is listed in the Top 100 Feeds at Dave Winer’s Share Your OPML, a “commons for sharing outlines, feeds, and taxonomy” (currently #59).

  • Ideacodes to Redesign Draper Richards’ Website

    Ideacodes has been hired to redesign the DraperRichards.com website. Draper Richards L.P. is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage information technology and telecommunications companies.  The Draper name is well known in…

  • Chinatown, San Francisco

  • Clever Car

    Researchers in England have been working on a prototype for a “clever” (Compact Low Emission Vehicle for Urban Transport) car.  The car has three wheels and tilts for easy manueverability. The prototype…

  • Ideacodes to Redesign UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering Website

    Ideacodes has been awarded the redesign project for the Berkeley College of Engineering website to take place this spring and summer.  The University of California, Berkeley, is the preeminent public university in…

  • Jenny Holzer: For London

    As part of the Beckett Centenary Festival at the Barbican, American artist Jenny Holzer presents a series of light projections on the Barbican and buildings around London including City Hall and Somerset…

  • Pleo: designer life form

    Pleo is a “designer life form” created by Caleb Chung, the creator of the Furby.  The Pleo looks like a miniature dinosaur toy, but it’s much more – stuffed with 38 sensors…