On email newsletters for Big Media

Publications are taking email newsletters promotion seriously, with prominent signup placements on every page. Yet, are we using it correctly?

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On print and digital news consumption

I always knew that there was a huge difference in reading the news in print and online. Print content is contextually laid out. Digital content is consumed in isolation.

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In-person audience engagement analysis through video

How could a simple app that processes camera data for audience reactions change the feedback received when speaking publically?

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5 things I learned launching my first iOS app

The week before Thanksgiving, I was on the subway home from Brooklyn and editing the promo video for the app on Photoshop. Anything that can help accelerate the process is helpful.

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On ad supported websites from a developer’s perspective

I’ve worked at media companies for over three years. Watching the recent discussions about ad-blockers, advertiser’s impinging on reader’s rights, and the growth of content distribution networks (read: Facebook, Apple News, RSS readers), I want to share how it feels to be a web developer.

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Prehave

Twitter meets Github and Exposure. A platform for software engineers and creatives to actively show proof-of-work on side-projects.

Email Newsletter Stand

Research tool for monitoring and analyzing email newsletters. Developer a email analysis pipeline for extracting links and content. Subscribed to 150+ email lists and monitored trends for 2 years.

Sweetspot Photos

Made in response to the UX of photo carousels. Sweetspot provided a different way for photojournalists to layout their pictures in narative form. Creators pick "sweet spots" on pictures, that link to another gallery phot.

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Tell Me 'Bout It

A web app that allows you to listen to and share breakup stories. Hundreds of people have called in their 15-45 second breakup stories that are shared across the site.

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Connected Particles Extension

Google Chrome extension that creates a D3.js "connected particles" animation for every new tab.

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Lunnch

Twitter based match making service to encourage online friends to meet in person. Lunnch was based around an interface that allowed users to opt-in with their availability, and match with other creatives for lunch (or breakfast).

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E-DNA

E-DNA stands for Editorial DNA. This was a new-tab dashboard for providing magazine web producer's daily workflow. Based on the time of day, common tasks were surfaced. Web traffic on a designated website was analyzed through Google Analytics and compared against Google trends throughout the day.

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Google Trends in New Tab

Display a beautifully animated series of panels with Google Trend tabs.

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ReplyFrom

Tool for synthesis email responses for email newsletter managers. ReplyFrom provided a unique email to use as the "reply to" address and an easy-to-use UI for managing and aggregating responses.

@streetartfound

Built a Twitter bot that posted graffiti and street art images from various public sources. The account developed a following of 8500+. At its peak, @streetartfound was getting over 800,000 impressions a week.

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City Mission

Built as a "data donation" platform. City Mission allowed organizations to run a campaign around a "data" problem. The campaign composed of collecting participants, then once the participant requirement was hit, instructions were sent out to facilitiate data collection.

Public Art Found

Platform for graffiti art geneology. PAF tried to create a digital representation for every piece of graffiti/street art. The platform to track artists, works of art, and high traffic graffiti spots.

Stinky Bad

URL shortener that uses words instead of string hashes. So you can say, "go to stinkybad.com slash lion".

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What is Soka Education?

Simple website that explains the Soka Education pedagogy.

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Developer Side-Project Newsletter

Newsletter for developers to share sideprojects. Got 200 subscribes over a weekend and validated interest. Manually polling audience for projects was inefficient and project died.

Glassrooms

A service for teachers to get realtime user feedback from YouTube videos. The application was built for Android TV devices and various mobile interfaces. The teacher used the Android TV to build out playlists and view classroom analytics. The mobile interface was used by students to answer survey questions, anser multiple choice questions, and signal issues

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Fidget

Mobile web application to help graffiti artists coordinate travel plans in realtime. The application allowed users to stream their location and pinpoint locations to coordinate graffiti tagging trips

Triangle

Browser extension that ran "meta" searches against keywords in your active tab window for news websites. The searches checked Facebook social-graph data against the names of locations or people.

Street Art Identifier

Game for presenting pictures and asking users for input. The pictures are scraped graffiti images. The user is asked to input the artist's name. Data is stored and compared against past results to identifer user consensus. If there is consensus, then the images is correctly tagged and both users get a point. If there is no majority consensus, the users lose a point.

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