Ideacodes - San Francisco

Ideacodes has been hired by a new San Francisco based company to design the identity, UI and AJAX interactivity for their premiere social web application scheduled to launch this winter.

Launched only two months ago, EmilyChang.com, which includes the popular eHub resource, is now ranked in the Technorati Top 1000 blogs, an authority calculation based on number of inbound sites and links. Technorati is “a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the world of weblogs,” and is currently tracking 20.7 million sites and 1.7 billion links. Read Emily’s blog post.

Ideacodes is pleased to announce a collaboration with Jared Cosulich, creator of CommunityWalk, a new Google maps web application for building communities. Ideacodes will work with Jared to redesign of the front-end interface with a focus on enhancing user experience, discoverability of content, navigation, and search. CommunityWalk is a free web application which gives you the ability “to share your community with the world” by adding locations, descriptions, comments, photos, and video of locations that are plotted onto an interactive Google map. CommunityWalk can be used as a visual mapping tool for any number of projects – documenting vacations, organizing groups, showing routes, planning a trip, and so much more. Each community that you create can be made public or private. Since it’s launch in September 2005, more than 400 communities have been created around the world.

eHub shoots to the number 5 spot on Daypop’s Top 40 for October 2 and 3. The Daypop Top 40 is a list of links that are currently popular with webloggers from around the world.

eHub Interviews, a series of email interviews with the creators of Web 2.0 applications and services, will launch this week (October 3-8, 2005) as part of the unofficial Web 2.0 week here in San Francisco.¹ With over 150 web applications and services in eHub (and growing every day), we felt it was time to hear about Web 2.0 from the people making it.

Emily Chang’s eHub reaches over 1000 bookmarks in del.icio.us and slides into the number 1 spot on del.icio.us popular after a wave of new linking and posts from bloggers, including Seth Godin, Stowe Boyd in Corante, Josh Porter, Barb Dybwad in the Social Software Weblog, Pete Cashmore, Mark Evans, Nancy White, Jon Gales and Planet Ajaxian and numerous others.

In his blog post today, Seth Godin, author and agent of change, writes about “that feeling of the impending rush” with the rapidly changing web. “The web is changing, and so fast it’s almost impossible to keep up. But Emily is trying. Check out: Emily Chang – eHub. In just a few weeks, she’s collected literally hundreds of new companies/projects that are examples of things that are turning the web upside down.”

In today’s Get Real column at Corante, Stowe Boyd, President/COO of Corante, the world’s first blog media company, writes about discovering new web apps at eHub, a new resource by co-founder and Ideacodes principal Emily Chang. See Stowe Boyd’s post, Mapstats and Ajax apps at Corante and visit eHub, a constantly updated list of web applications, services, resources, blogs or sites with a focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, location mapping, open source, folksonomy, design and digital media sharing.

Emily Chang’s eHub web 2.0 software resource has risen to the delicious popular page since Tuesday, Sept 13 with over 400 bookmarks, has been blogged and linked by bloggers in the United States, Spain, Germany, Japan, China, Sweden, Hungary, Italy, and Portugal, and has received over 5000 unique global visitors to the site since its launch on Monday, September 12. eHub is a constantly updated list of web applications, services, resources, blogs or sites with a focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, location mapping, open source, folksonomy, design and digital media sharing. For AJAX and Ruby on Rails applications specifically, visit Max Kiesler’s mHub.

In the latest article from Blogma, “Doing the Mambo over open source” by News.com’s executive editor Mike Ricciuti, Ideacodes co-founder Max Kiesler was quoted in the Blog community response section at the bottom of the article. See Max’s original post: Mambo Dancing to a New Tune