The Inhabited Web

We infer a great deal of information from the people around us, yet this 'crowd wisdom' is absent on the internet. When we visit a webpage, we don't know how many people are visiting with us, where they came from, or where they're going. My friends, Chris, Bryan, and I aimed to solve this by augmenting the scrollbar with a small visualization showing the scroll position of others who are currently visiting the same page as you. We won best hack at the Yahoo Hack Day event in 2008 at Carnegie Mellon for our creation, as well as winning "Best User Interface" at the Yahoo Open Hack! event in 2009.

GearBum.net

Sites such as steepandcheap.com, brociety.com, whiskeymilitia.com, and tramdock.com all sell one item at a time for a steep discount. Unfortunately, if you're looking for one particular item, you need to monitor the site constantly. I created a website which not only allows you to monitor all these deals at once (and see the price history of items), but also which will send you email alerts any time an item you want (at the price you want) shows up on one of these sites.

DomainViz: Visualizaing Your Domain Neighborhood

How many websites can you reach by following up to 5 links starting at notjulie.com? Is the law of six degrees of seperation valid for the web? I wanted to know, so I created a visualization which shows sites notjulie.com indirectly links to, and what sites link to notjulie.com. Here is a description of the project.

OpenMosaic.org

My friend Chris gave me a great idea one day--what if you could have a mosaic that anybody could edit? This had been done before, but mostly the mosaic ends up looking like a bunch of graffiti. We thought that the mosaic could look better if we restricted the color and size of the mosaic. It turned out pretty cool! Check it out!

IllSendYouCookies.com

I like baking cookies and sending them to people. One day in the summer of 2008 I decided that it would be cool to bake and send cookies to anybody who asks. Of course it sounded like a ridiculous idea. But, I decided to give it a go until I was under $100. People have donated so much money that I still haven't lost money yet! So far I've send about 350 cookies to almost 85 people. And I'm not planning on stopping. Check it out!

RidgeExplorations.com

This is the first 'professional' site I've done for a 'client'. My old avalanche teacher Don asked me to create a website for his avalanche education class. So I did. The website explains classes offered, allows students to sign up for classes, allows them to login and view/manage what classes they've signed up for, and see exclusive material. I also built a system so that Don can add and remove avalanche classes and field trips, as well as manage how many people can sign up for certain classes. It was certainly a lot more work than I expected! Check it out!

Snowbook

I helped a little bit with this facebook application which has 1,500 monthly users. I developed a feature which allows you to export your snowdays into a pdf so you can view them without facebook. I fixed a few bugs (however, there are still many and I don't have the time to fix them all). Still, it was a great experience! Check it out!