Ideacodes co-founder, Emily Chang, was quoted in an article titled ”Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC?”, in which Noam Cohen compares the websites of the two candidates.
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Thanks to MashupAwards for awarding Twitterverse the mashup of the day. Twitterverse is an Ideacodes Labs project which provides a visualization of the most commonly used words in a given time period from the Twitter public timeline. MashupAwards is a hand-picked showcase of the best web mashups based on uniqueness, creativity, utility, content and user experience.
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Ideacodes co-founder, Emily Chang, has been invited to be a judge for the 2008 Adobe Design Achievement Awards. The awards “honor talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, developers and computer artists from the world’s top institutions of higher education. Reflecting the growth in the interactive design field and the importance of the integration between design and development, Adobe has added several new categories in three media areas: Interactive Media, Motion Media, and Traditional Media.” Emily is pleased to join this year’s prestigious group of design experts. If you’re a student, enter now in 12 categories with over 60$K US in cash prizes to be awarded in New York City. Submissions close May 2, 2008.
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Emily Chang and Max Kiesler‘s proposed SXSW panel, Social Design Strategies, has been selected for SXSW 2008. The panel description: “Now that social networking is quickly becoming a regular feature set, designers need to understand the dynamics of designing experiences that encourage social behavior, while giving individuals a sense of privacy, personal gain, and ownership. How do you create a symbiotic relationship that maximizes discovery, game-play, connections and communication? We’ll examine a breadth of examples and explore their pros and cons.” The SXSW Interactive Festival takes place in Austin from March 7 - 11, 2008 and features five days of programming about the latest in technology. “Attracting digital creatives as well as visionary technology entrepreneurs, the event celebrates the best minds and the brightest personalities of emerging technology.”
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Ideacodes is proud to be featured in Netdiver‘s highly selective portfolio section and What’s New. Netdiver, created by the extraordinary Carole Guevin, is a digital culture magazine that’s been going strong for over a decade. It’s “one of the pioneering new media portals devoted to tutoring, empowering and stimulating creativity as well as excellence in design projects by the international community involved in the design industry and beyond.” Carole writes: “Ideacodes is an award-winning strategic design consultancy in San Francisco who create social applications, concept-driven websites, web products, integrated marketing, and sustainable technology solutions and was co-founded by Emily Chang and Max Kiesler, a multiple-listing Netdiver alumni.” Thanks to Carole for the honor.
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In Idea To Execution: The Team Behind Twitterverse at Wired’s Epicenter blog, Adario Strange writes: “Snooping around the web I found this interesting early idea sketch from the creators of Twitterverse (see below). Over the weekend I got in touch with web designer and Twitterverse co-creator Emily Chang of Ideacodes for an explanation…"I did the sketch in March as my partner, Max Kiesler, and I were debating a Twitter mashup called Twitterverse.com. It’s an experiment we’re doing in our free time to mine and archive the public timeline show popular words and phrases from Twitter.” See the post at Wired.
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Ideacodes co-founder Emily Chang will be part of The Hybrid Designer panel at the Web 2.0 Expo, April 15-18, in San Francisco. The Web 2.0 Expo is “an annual gathering of technical, design, marketing, and business professionals who are building the next generation web. Web 2.0 Expo features the most innovative and successful Internet industry figures and companies providing attendees with examples of business models, development paradigms, and design strategies to enable mainstream businesses and new arrivals to the Web 2.0 world to take advantage of this new generation of services and opportunities.”
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Ideacodes co-founders, Emily Chang and Max Kiesler will be at the SXSW Interactive Conference coming up March 9-13, 2007. Emily was invited by Tom Markiewicz, CEO of EvolvePoint, to be part of the “Using RSS for Marketing” panel scheduled for Sunday, March 11, 2007 from 10-11am. Emily is looking for feedback on current trends in RSS. If you’ll be at SXSW and would like to meet up, please send us a note as we’re planning to have a get together sometime during the conference. See you in Austin!
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Thanks to Design-Feed for including the individual blogs of both Ideacodes’ co-founders, Emily Chang and Max Kiesler, in its newly launched website. “Design-Feed is a design feed aggregator. We hand-pick the most interesting design related RSS feeds and present them in an easy-to-browse format. This means you can get all the latest design news in one place, rather than trawling through hundreds of sites a day. Every post aggregated is also searchable by keyword.”
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Thanks to the LAist and Theron Parlin for including EmilyChang.com in it’s list of Top 10 Best Designed Websites of 2006. Theron is currently at Start Us Up, a company in Framingham, MA that writes and releases cool web applications, and he’s the one of the most downloaded designers of Wordpress themes. EmilyChang.com is listed among great sites such as Veerle’s blog and Artypapers.
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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, powerful integration with other services like Flickr, YouTube, and more. “Blogging is fun again...” Ideacodes is pleased to have designed the Bunnylicious and Zen blog themes for Vox.
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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 Emily’s site, please visit the subscribe page.
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Emily Chang’s popular eHub Interviews, a series of interviews with the creators and companies behind Web 2.0, is now a channel at CNET Networks Japan. Interviews will be translated into Japanese and featured at eHub at CNET Japan. See Emily’s blog post for more.
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Emily Chang will be on a panel of speakers at the E27 Women 2.0 Conference on April 30 in Mountain View, California. The conference will focus “on women entrepreneurs making extraordinary leaps in the technology world.” See Emily’s blog post.
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Michael Calore of Wired.com writes about Max Kiesler’s Round-up of 30 AJAX Tutorials in A Heap of Ajax Tutorials at Webmonkey’s blog Monkey Bites.
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Max Kiesler’s post, Round-up of 30 AJAX Tutorials, was voted onto the home page of Digg, the popular social news tech website, and the source of the popular podcast, Diggnation. See Max’s post at Digg which as of this entry, has had over 1700 diggs!
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Ideacodes co-founder, Max Kiesler, has launched a new project called DesignDemo, which features interaction demos from new web 2.0 applications and services. Within a day of its launch, DesignDemo was featured on del.icio.us popular with several hundred (now thousands) bookmarks.
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Ideacodes co-founders and principals, Emily Chang and Max Kiesler, have been invited to be judges for the prestigious ExpressionEngine $15,000 Shootout. We’ve used pMachine web products since their inception and couldn’t be more pleased to be judging the contest along with Om Malik, Molly Holzschlag, Jason Santa-Maria, Cameron Moll, Paul Scrivens, Mark Boulton, Simon Collison, Narayan Nayar, and Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain.
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Ideacodes co-founders and principals, Emily Chang and Max Kiesler, were invited to attend Microsoft Search Champs v4, a private event held at Micrsoft headquarters in Redmond, WA from January 24 - 26, 2006. Search Champs is hosted by the MSN Search team who invites a select group of sixty technologists, academics, bloggers, and site owners to show products in development, get feedback, and to discuss search and the future of the Internet.
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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 headed. Here you’ll find the field’s most insightful observers and commentators tracking and reporting on its latest developments as well as weighing in on its future.” Read Emily’s blog post.
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