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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.

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.  Sapotek was also featured in this month’s (August 2006) Business 2.0 magazine in its issue “31 Best Business Ideas in the World.”

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 this site, please visit the subscribe page.

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.

Today, Emily Chang’s eHub Interviews went live as a channel at the Japanese version of News.com.  See Emily’s blog post.

Emily Chang’s eHub is listed in the Top 100 Feeds at Dave Winer’s Share Your OPML, a “commons for sharing outlines, feeds, and taxonomy” (currently #59).

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. 

Ideacodes has been working with our friends at Supernova to revise and redevelop the Supernova 2006 conference website and blog.  Supernova is an annual conference in San Francisco hosted by Kevin Werbach and will take place at the Palace Hotel from June 21-23, 2006.

Stylehive.com is a new collaborative shopping community.  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).