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Ideacodes and Supernova
Ideacodes has been working with our friends at Supernova to revise and redevelop the Supernova 2006 conference website and blog. Supernova is an annual conference in San Francisco hosted by Kevin Werbach…
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Stylehive Fashion Show in Second Life
It’s not every day that we can teleport ourselves to the world of high fashion and style. But tonight, Friday, March 24, 2006, you can! Join us at the Stylehive virtual headquarters…
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Stylehive Launches
Stylehive.com is a new collaborative shopping community. Ideacodes has been working with Michael and his team of experts for the last five months on all facets of design (branding, UI, user experience,…
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Explore CommunityWalk
CommunityWalk, the web 2.0 mapping community, has launched the new Explore feature. The Explore page lets you zoom into the map, select a category, or use a live search to find different…
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The Web 2.0 Movement Described
While there have been many seminal posts on Web 2.0 in the last several months, I strongly recommend reading “Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning?” by Bryan…
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Grandmaster Flash
It’s cool to know that as we’re listening to a compilation of Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel and the Furious Five here at home, DJ Grandmaster Flash is at SupperClub tonight, literally just…
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BlogBurst: Getting Blogs into Mainstream Media
I’m always interested in new blog networks. I’ve been fortunate to enjoy a healthy increasing readership and acceptance in several online networks. Most of these, however, push content out to other niche…
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Lego Creations
I’m definitely part of the Lego generation – played with them as a kid, went to Lego world in Holland, and was a fan of Lego Mindstorms. This Lego Volvo is crazy:…
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Foldera Simplifies Your Digital Life
These days, like many of you, my life is filled with electronic communications, whether that’s email, chat, collaborative project management, mobile messages, or other data sources. I’ve written about this in the…
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Ideacodes to Provide Design Consulting to Foldera
My web consultancy, Ideacodes, has been hired by Foldera, a Huntington Beach based company founded by CEO Richard Lusk. Foldera has created an innovative new web-based productivity suite which “inverts the sorting…
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A-Z West
Andrea Zittel has always been one of my favorite artists since I saw her work in NYC in the late nineties. The NYTImes has a review of her latest work in Rethinking…
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guimp
This reminds me of the artweb projects that I first fell in love with in the late 90s and the pixel art sites that followed. Check out guimp, the world’s smallest website.
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MashupCamp Day 1
I’m at MashupCamp, a two day event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, nestled in Silicon Valley, south of Palo Alto and north of Sunnyvale. I mention that because…
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Pre-Pre-Supernova Party
Thursday night was Kevin Werbach’s Pre-Pre-Supernova party here in SF, just a couple blocks away at Cha-Am Thai. The dinner was a great chance to network and chat with leading tech innovators,…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
