Ideacodes - San Francisco

Stylehive.com is a new collaborative shopping community. It’s a place where contributors share and discover the hottest stores, styles, designers, trends, and must have products through social bookmarking and web 2.0 networking. The Stylehive is the unique product and vision of entrepreneur and CEO Michael Carrier. Ideacodes has been working with Michael and his team of experts for the last five months on all facets of design (branding, UI, user experience, AJAX interaction, and social strategy). Register for free and try the Stylehive for yourself. You can stay up to date with the best from the Hive at the Stylehive blog.

Ideacodes has been hired by Foldera, a Huntington Beach based company founded by CEO Richard Lusk. Foldera has created an innovative new web-based productivity suite which “inverts the sorting and filing paradigm,” allowing users to centralize communications based on context. Ideacodes will be providing strategic design consulting on Foldera’s application as well as a corporate blog.

Ideacodes co-founder, Max Kiesler, has launched a new project called DesignDemo, which features interaction demos from new web 2.0 applications and services. Within a day of its launch, DesignDemo was featured on del.icio.us popular with several hundred (now thousands) bookmarks.

Ideacodes co-founders and principals, Emily Chang and Max Kiesler, have been invited to be judges for the prestigious ExpressionEngine $15,000 Shootout. We’ve used pMachine web products since their inception and couldn’t be more pleased to be judging the contest along with Om Malik, Molly Holzschlag, Jason Santa-Maria, Cameron Moll, Paul Scrivens, Mark Boulton, Simon Collison, Narayan Nayar, and Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain.

Ideacodes is working with Mary Hodder, CEO of Dabble, to provide identity, UI, and user experience design for her next generation web application.

Ideacodes co-founders and principals, Emily Chang and Max Kiesler, were invited to attend Microsoft Search Champs v4, a private event held at Micrsoft headquarters in Redmond, WA from January 24 – 26, 2006. Search Champs is hosted by the MSN Search team who invites a select group of sixty technologists, academics, bloggers, and site owners to show products in development, get feedback, and to discuss search and the future of the Internet.

CommunityWalk is a web 2.0 user created community with location mapping, photos and multimedia, and much more. Ideacodes worked with Jared Cosulich, CEO and founder, to reshape the strategy, design, and functionality of the new dynamic home page. Learn more…

eHub and EmilyChang.com Join the Corante Network Web Hub, “your starting point for keeping abreast of the best writing and thinking on the forces and factors impacting the Web and where it’s headed. Here you’ll find the field’s most insightful observers and commentators tracking and reporting on its latest developments as well as weighing in on its future.” Read Emily’s blog post.

Both eHub and emilychang.com have joined the Web 2.0 Workgroup, “a network of premium weblogs that write content exclusively about the new generation of the Web. Combined, these sites reach a large readership of influential technology and media professionals.” Read Emily’s blog post.

In his Best of the Web article at Forbes.com, Matt Rand discusses Microsoft’s Live.com portal and cites eHub as an AJAX resource. Read Rand’s full article, Microsoft’s Model Turns Left.