Projects

Lijit was the comercial inception of Outfoxed. We pivoted to become the premier blog search engine and ad exchange. Acquired by Federated Media in 2011. (2008)
Wordnik is an online dictionary freed from the contraints of paper. I was recruited to the founding team in Booklyn, after Erin McKean’s wonderful TED talk. (2009)
EverNight was the second web turn-based game I designed and built at VR-1. It was licensed to AOL and Deutsche Telkom. Fans purchased the game several years ago and re-launched it. (1997)
UltraCorps was my first product designed in a “real” job. It was the first massively multiplayer game that could be played in a browser and remains terribly addictive. It was originally sold to Microsoft, and now is at Steve Jackson games. (1996)
Email Clue was a game played via email. Distinctive because the client itself was emailed to other players, and so the codebase had to be kept under 500K. (1999)
Family Archive is an ongoing project to publish and organize the over 20,000 documents that my dad has scanned. My talk at the Personal Digital Archiving conference. (2009-Ongoing!)
Outfoxed was the first social-search engine, and online trust network. It was my master’s thesis project at the University of Osnabrück, and let to the creation of Lijit. (2004-2005)
SmileFile is an in-progress project to record how often I smile throughout the day on my computer, inspired by the Quantified Self movement.(2012)
LifeSlice runs every hour, taking a picture of you, a picture of what’s on your screen, and other stuff. Cool visualization tools to explore. (2012)
SimStan was a project I did in Berlin, where my Facebook friends were given wiki-style access to my calendar and I had to do whatever they scheduled. (2009)
Lexplorer. A visual Thesarus for German, written in Java and Python. (2004)
AttentionTrust Attention Recorder. Browser add-on for recording one’s clickstream. (2005)
Comic Mini-Games ahead-of-their-time causal games embedded in online comics. The first games I ever made on the web. (1996-1997)
Scan-with-Stan, a plain-jane windows application for non-techies that scans old photos into Facebook. (2011)
Nepal Education Support Trust. I am the lead technology volunteer for this non-profit. (2003-Present)

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