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.
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!
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.
Ideacodes has been hired to redesign the DraperRichards.com website. Draper Richards L.P. is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage information technology and telecommunications companies. The Draper name is well known in the venture capital industry. Bill Draper’s father, General William H. Draper, Jr., became the first professional west-coast venture capitalist when he founded Draper, Gaither & Anderson in 1958.
Ideacodes has been awarded the redesign project for the Berkeley College of Engineering website to take place this spring and summer. The University of California, Berkeley, is the preeminent public university in the country and is consistently ranked among the top five for its engineering and information technology programs. The College of Engineering is the largest of the professional schools on the Berkeley campus, consisting of seven academic departments, extensive research activities, and a multi-faceted Dean’s Office.
EmilyChang.com, launched less than a year ago, has now reached a combined RSS feed total of over 10,000 daily readers. To grab your own feeds from Emily’s site, please visit the subscribe page.
Emily Chang’s popular eHub Interviews, a series of interviews with the creators and companies behind Web 2.0, is now a channel at CNET Networks Japan. Interviews will be translated into Japanese and featured at eHub at CNET Japan. See Emily’s blog post for more.
Emily Chang will be on a panel of speakers at the E27 Women 2.0 Conference on April 30 in Mountain View, California. The conference will focus “on women entrepreneurs making extraordinary leaps in the technology world.” See Emily’s blog post.
Michael Calore of Wired.com writes about Max Kiesler’s Round-up of 30 AJAX Tutorials in A Heap of Ajax Tutorials at Webmonkey’s blog Monkey Bites.