Stuff I Work On

The projects I currently work on or plan for or think about.

    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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.

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