Ideacodes is pleased to be working with Matt Mullenweg and Automattic, the company behind WordPress, Akismet, bbPress and other fine web services.
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Ideacodes had the pleasure of working with Howard Rheingold on his new video blog, vlog.rheingold.com. In Howard’s words: “It all started when I started thinking about updating A Slice of Life in My Virtual Community, which I wrote twenty years ago. It didn’t take long to realize that a description of how I spend my time online these days would be conveyed more effectively via video/screencast than plain text.” Howard Rheingold is “one of the world’s most foremost authorities on the social implications of technology. He was the first Executive Editor of HotWired, an editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, and one of the founders of Electric Minds. He’s also credited with inventing the term “virtual community” and the author of Smart Mobs, “widely acclaimed as a prescient forecast of the always-on era.” We greatly enjoyed implementing Howard’s unique design into a video blog.
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Ideacodes has been working with Richard MacManus, Founder and Editor of ReadWriteWeb, on a redesign of the site which launched this week. ReadWriteWeb is a leading blog that provides web technology news, reviews and analysis, and is ranked among Technorati’s Top 20 blogs in the world.
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Ideacodes is working with a Palo Alto based stealth startup on their new digital lifestream and multi-channel aggregation platform. Ideacodes will be providing strategic consulting, branding and identity, UI design and user experience design.
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Ideacodes is pleased to announce that we’re working with Richard MacManus, editor and founder of Read/WriteWeb, to redesign the user interface, provide brand and identity refinements, and create new XHTML/CSS for Movable Type 4 integration. Read/WriteWeb is a leading weblog that provides web technology news, reviews and analysis, and is ranked among Technorati’s Top 30 blogs in the world. It’s also the lead blog in the Read/WriteWeb Network, a growing network of blogs about web technology, which include last100, AltSearchEngines, and Read/WriteTalk.
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Ideacodes’ client, Stylehive, has launched a brand new feature called Style Communities. Tons of top brands - like InStyle, The Gap, ShopBop, Design Public, Craftzine, Readymade, Ron Herman - have started up their own Hives for their biggest fans, and anyone can join. If you’re a social shopper, check out the new featured communities. Retailers, publishers, and bloggers, learn more about becoming a partner.
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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 is pleased to launch our first release of Twitterverse, a mashup and a visualization layer that mines and archives the public timeline of Twitter and provides a visualization of the most commonly used words in a given time period.
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Ideacodes has been working with BlogHer, the leading destination online for women’s opinions and activities, to redesign and enhance the user experience of the site. As the only women’s blog network, BlogHer creates opportunities for women bloggers to seek greater exposure, education, community and economic empowerment, and has more than 7,400 blogs listed. We’re delighted to be working with BlogHer co-founders, Lisa Stone, Elisa Camahort, and Jory Des Jardins, and the BlogHer community on this new version.
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GigaOM, the leading tech blog network founded by our client and friend, Om Malik, has launched a redesign based on feedback solicited in December 2006. As Om writes, “We made notes, and have been diligently trying to put that into practice.” See Om’s post for details, and stay tuned for continued refinements and enhancements.
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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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Ideacodes has been working with Joost Schreve, CEO of EveryTrail, on the UI design for the first version release. EveryTrail is a free online platform that enables active travelers and outdoor enthusiasts of all kinds to visualize and share trips using GPS data, digital photos and location-based notes overlaid on interactive maps. Users are able to upload GPS data and the service automatically plots waypoints and tracks onto a map. You can add photos, notes, and other details to customize your trip. Learn more about our work. Sign up for EveryTrail to try it for yourself. Also see eHub Interviews EveryTrail.
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Stylehive.com, the social shopping community, launches new features and throws a party to celebrate the launch (now officially out of alpha). The Stylehive is the unique product and vision of entrepreneur and CEO Michael Carrier. Ideacodes has been working with Stylehive since Sept 2005 as their agile design team (branding, UI, user experience, AJAX interaction, and social strategy).
For more on the features in this release, please see Emily Chang’s blog post, Stylehive Launch: Party and New Features.
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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 broadband to online games and Web 2.0 to a monthly global audience of 500,000 consumers and professionals interested in the world of hi-tech. Giga Omni Media, Inc. is founded and led by executive editor, Om Malik, an award-winning journalist. Before launching his own publishing venture, Om was a senior writer for Business 2.0 magazine covering telecom and broadband stories. We look forward to continuing our design work as part of TeamGiga.
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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 new enhanced version of its world class desktop in English, Desktoptwo. Update: Sapotek was also featured in this month’s (August 2006) Business 2.0 magazine in its issue “31 Best Business Ideas in the World.” Congratulations, Josh and Oscar!
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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 sharing social web applications, and is led by CEO Gina Bianchini and co-founded by Marc Andreessen.
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Ideacodes’ client, Dabble.com, a video search and remix community by Mary Hodder, launches its private beta. Ideacodes worked with Dabble to design the new logo and landing pages.
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Stylehive.com is a new collaborative shopping community. It’s a place where contributors share and discover the hottest stores, styles, designers, trends, and must have products through social bookmarking and web 2.0 networking. The Stylehive is the unique product and vision of entrepreneur and CEO Michael Carrier. 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, AJAX interaction, and social strategy). Register for free and try the Stylehive for yourself. You can stay up to date with the best from the Hive at the Stylehive blog.
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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 and filing paradigm,” allowing users to centralize communications based on context. Ideacodes will be providing strategic design consulting on Foldera’s application as well as a corporate blog.
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Ideacodes is 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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