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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Emily Chang Invited to Judge the HOW Interactive Design Award

Ideacodes co-founder Emily Chang is one of three judges for HOW Magazine's 11th Annual Interactive Design Awards. Entries range across media - web, DVD, motion, kiosks - and disciplines, and will be judged on communication/message, navigation/usability, visual design and technical strength. Fellow judges include Liz Danzico, co-founder and Chair of the new MFA in Interaction Design Program, and Sean Donohue, VP, Creative Director of skinnyCorp. Winning entries will be featured in HOW's April 2010 Design Annual.

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Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Emily Chang Cited in WE Magazine’s 100 Women Bloggers to Watch

Emily Chang, designer and co-founder of Ideacodes, has been included in WE Magazine's 100 Women Bloggers to Watch in 2009. WE magazine is a "woman's online magazine, an International Digital Business & Lifestyle Magazine that made it's debut in the fall of 2006. Our focus is on the total woman. WE's audience consists of women who want to explore great destinations, improve their outlook on life, learn quick and easy ways to get and stay healthy, fine out about the latest technology gadgets and information, get some networking tips, become inspired as they read about women making a difference in the world and even ideas for great entertaining and learn how to more effectively and efficiently market and promote their business on and off the web."

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Friday, February 20, 2009

Emily Chang Nominated for the 2009 National Design Awards

Ideacodes co-founder Emily Chang has been nominated for the prestigious Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards 2009 program for excellence in Interaction Design. This is the first year that they will be giving an award in Interaction Design. The National Design Awards were conceived by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum ten years ago to honor the best in American design. "First launched at the White House Millennium Council in 2000, the annual Awards program celebrates design in various disciplines as a vital humanistic tool in shaping the world, and seeks to increase national awareness of design by educating the public and promoting excellence, innovation, and lasting achievement.

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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Emily Chang Cited Among The 50 Most Influential Individuals in Silicon Valley

Ideacodes co-founder, Emily Chang, has been included in NowPublic's 50 Most Influential Individuals in Silicon Valley/San Francisco. "The Index is a detailed (and transparent) barometer of whose voices are most heard in the digital landscape as new channels - Twitter, Facebook, Flick, YouTube and the like - transform how media is created and spread."

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Monday, June 23, 2008

Ideacodes and the.colis Web Startup Competition

Ideacodes co-founder, Emily Chang, has been invited to be on the jury for TWS2008 (the.colis Web Startup), Israel's office dot com competition, presenting the most promising Israeli web startups of the year. A "well known and respected jury will choose 10 of the most exciting Israeli start ups for a chance to present their venture to more than 500 international and Israeli high tech industry members, private investors and VCs."

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Monday, February 04, 2008

Emily Chang Quoted in the New York Times

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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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Twitterverse Awarded Mashup of the Day

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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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Ideacodes and the 2008 Adobe Design Achievement Awards

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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Sunday, October 21, 2007

Social Design Strategies Panel at SXSW 2008

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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Thursday, September 20, 2007

Ideacodes Featured in Netdiver

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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Monday, April 30, 2007

Twitterverse Mentioned on Wired

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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Friday, April 13, 2007

Ideacodes at the Web 2.0 Expo

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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Monday, February 12, 2007

Ideacodes will be at SXSW Interactive

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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Thursday, January 18, 2007

Ideacodes Co-founders Selected for Design-Feed

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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Thursday, December 21, 2006

EmilyChang.com in LAists’s Top 10 for 2006

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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Friday, October 27, 2006

Vox Launches

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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Friday, July 28, 2006

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 Emily's site, please visit the subscribe page.

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Friday, June 16, 2006

eHub Interviews channel at CNET Japan

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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Saturday, April 29, 2006

Emily Chang at Women 2.0 Conference

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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Saturday, March 18, 2006

Max Kiesler’s Post on Wired.com

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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