Stuff I Work On
The projects I currently work on or plan for or think about.
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- SwipSwap
- Value proposition: Easy group contact-swap.
- Use case: A meeting of ten people, "one button" swaps everyone's electronic business cards
- Length of involvement: Dec 2009 - ongoing (5 months)
- Unique aspects: BonJour neighbor discovery
- Business Model: mobile app market sales
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- Taplister
- Value proposition: Building community around local bars and the beers they serve.
- Use case: Find which bars are serving your favorite, hard-to-find beer
- Length of involvement: Dec 2009 - ongoing (5 months)
- Unique aspects: wiki-like editing of a bar's tap list
- Business Model: targeted banner ads, mobile app market sales
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- Jyte
- Value proposition: Collect community opinion and add reputation to an OpenID
- Use case: Poll the Internet with "Are red M-n-Ms better than yellow?". Give "candy" cred to users who leave interesting comments.
- Length of involvement: Feb 2010 - April 2010 (3 months)
- Unique aspects: OpenID centered in 2007. Very usable voting mechanism
- Business Model: unknown
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- Geomena
- Value proposition: Automatic geo-positioning
- Use case: Using only wifi, where on earth am I?
- Length of involvement: Aug 2009 - ongoing (9 months)
- Unique aspects: Wiki-editable, couchdb
- Business Model: For-profit spinoff with extra analysis for more accurate positioning
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- XFN Spider (currently broken)
- Value proposition: Build a social graph
- Use case: Study individual pdx tech members / group analysis
- Active months: March 2009, May 2009, Jan 2010
- Unique aspects: graph storage
- Business Model: none
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- IceCondor
- Value proposition: Continuous location tracking
- Use case: My friend is 10 minutes late, are they parking or still at home?
- Length of involvement: Sep 2008 - April 2010 (19 months)
- Unique aspects: android client
- Business Model: monthly subscription
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- EveryoneDelivers
- Value proposition: Crowd-sourced delivery
- Use case: I need this package delivered to work for $5
- Length of involvement: Mar 2009 - Dec 2009 (10 months)
- Unique aspects: crowdsourced replacement of traditional business
- Business Model: per-delivery fee for the lister
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- DailyWireless.org
- Value proposition: Wireless industry news
- Use case: Whats going on in the wireless telecomm industry?
- Length of involvement: Mar 2002 - ongoing (8 years)
- Unique aspects: Sam Churchill
- Business Model: direct-sales banner ads
Many other project ideas are on the ProjectIdeas wiki page.