Projects

Just a running list of some of the software projects I’ve worked on the the past few years

Cc:Betty now Threadbox Collaboration Platform

• Developed the initial version launched at DEMO 2009
• Deep email integration via IMAP (wish I had been working with the latest Ruby Mail rather than TMail)
• I still have nightmares from writing regexp’s for parsing dates and times in raw text to try to predict calendar events

CHADR (RIP) Group chat via SMS

• A quick 2 week project / concept built on top of the TipMobile platform
• Piloted with a High School. Felt like an anthropologist while watching those conversations
• Groups, Direct Messages, Like, Unlike and all sorts of other cool group functions all via SMS

Aha Mobile – Stay (safely) online while driving

• Helped with initial brainstorming and technology investigation
• Strategy took a right turn after we watched the success of the iPhone platform

Nombray (RIP) – Personal Brand Management

• Buy your personalized domain name and put up a nice page

AskMeGo (RIP) – Real Time Chat version of Yahoo Answers

• had a cool widget to embed on any site that would enable Facebook like chat across chosen topics
• XMPP / Jabber integration with Yahoo, AOL, MSN, GTalk

TipMobile (RIP) – Social Networking via SMS

• Built initial rev of the SMS application platform with/for yeeguy
• During the heydays of the Facebook Apps craze, tried to drive that virality into the SMS space
• Planned to monitize with 4INFO ads
• Developed PHP api to integrate with what is now the successful startup Sharethrough

ClassicalMuse (RIP) – Social Video Sharing site for high quality classical performances

• upload and share high-def videos
• categorize by composer, conductor, venue, performers, etc.

Martini Media Network Ad Network

• Developed initial prototype for the concept (it has evolved quite a bit since then)
• Very early stage development on the first couple sites IntoFlight and IntoEquus before it turned into a pure ad network

Where I Hang (RIP) – Yelp clone as a Facebook app

• Tried to replicate yelp in the early days of Facebook Apps
• Didn’t quite get the virality right

[Wikiplaces] (RIP) A map wiki with light social networking

• Prototype launched in a week then later added into a Facebook app as that craze started

My EHE PHR Health Care Management Portal

• Multiple content sources: articles, encyclopedia, drug database, drug interaction
• Private management of health records for EHEIntl, inc.’s customers
• Rails app
• Migrated from a Java app that was cutting edge for its time in the ‘90s

Zolved Free Remote Control Free PC Remote Control for Consumers

• based off the open source VNC code
• improved the workflow to make it dead simple
• single .EXE download
• Serves thousands of sessions world-wide a day
• World-wide repeater and download servers in US, UK and SG

Zolved Consumer Technical Support Portal

• Publishing Platform for articles for self-service support
• Spun up an awesome content team in Hyerabad, India that cranked out thousands of great articles
• Community for assisted service with solving technical problems
• Helps hundreds of thousands of people every month
• Complex Taxonomy with 4-D browsing
• Faceted search with spell-checking and synonyms via Ferret, ASpell, WordNet
• My first Rails app (-sniff- -nostalgia-)
• Multi-tenant portal that can share content
• HTML authored content in multiple templates
• Used Nutch to crawl links of external self-service articles and provide integrated search with Zolved content

IPTouch (RIP) – Self-Service Portal for Enterprise serving to Customers

• custom MVC framework in Java
• Used DaisyCMS(http://www.daisycms.org/) to author and manage content
• extensive metrics gathering to track and report on true call avoidance
• Really moved the needle for call avoidance when deployed at Xora