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I've been tweaking the design of my site behind the scenes for the last few weeks and made the changes live tonight. Of course, there will be continuous tweaks, but I feel purged! Overall, I've tried to reduce clutter and simplify the structure and presentation - a proper cleansing. It's an evolution but also a return to an earlier version with less density. Read more...

It's the weekend and I'm going through my digital archives and files again. I know, it's an obsession. While I definitely output a lot to the web and the social sites I use, there's always an exponentially increasing amount of digital data that I'm collecting on my computer and storage devices. The more I collect on my hard drives, the less fluid I'm feeling. So, I plan to start a process I've done before - transferring everything I create or collect from my many hard drives to my site, including notes, designs, references, observations, art, writing, photographs, videos and screenshots... a living archive of personal ephemera. Read more...

Looking through my site FTP directory, I came across a folder for "photos" and remembered that I never finished setting it up or linking to it on my site. There's now a photos link in the navigation of this site, where you can see recent photos I post to Flickr, as well as my current photo sets. Read more...

After spending the last two years as eHub, obsessively profiling and trying out almost every web application that's come out, I've decided to try something different from a new perspective. I just launched PicoCool, a site that's dedicated to bringing you tiny and obscure content from the world of peer media, social networks and subcultures. Read more...

As most of you know, I've been flying solo on eHub since it launched as the first Web 2.0 list back in Oct 2005. It's been a thrill and both personally and professionally gratifying to maintain a resource that's used widely. eHub has over 400,000 page views a month and reaches 14,000 daily RSS subscribers and growing weekly. Our audience is diverse and includes users of all types: startups, bloggers, developers, VC, designers, technologists, CEOs, librarians, parents, students, news media... the list goes on. Read more...

We're psyched to launch our first release of Twitterverse tonight after working on the idea for the last couple of weeks and then the last 48 hours straight. Twitterverse is a mashup and a visualization layer for Obvious' hot new product, Twitter, a "sophisticated, device-agnostic, social message routing system that nobody realizes they need until they try it," as Biz Stone so aptly described. Read more...

After a year and a half of using social applications heavily, I recently had to revisit the plan to aggregate all my activity into one data stream. As the calendar rolled to 2007, I kept wishing I could look at all my social activity from 2006 in context: time, date, type of activity, location, memory, information interest, and so on. What was I bookmarking, blogging about, listening to, going to, and thinking about? I still had the urge to have an information and online activity mash-up that would allow me to discover my own patterns and to share my activity across the web in one chronological stream of data (to start with anyway). Read more...

September 4th was the one year anniversary of this blog, but I've been too busy (!) to stop and ponder the significance of it until tonight. While I've had many blogs before, EmilyChang.com is the first professional blog that I've started that's purely focused on web, design and technology, and it's been an extremely gratifying experience. I've met hundreds of people, many of whom I used to merely read from a far, become friends with those that I only once admired, been fortunate to have a stellar line-up of clients at Ideacodes that share my core philosophies, and had that satisfaction of turning an idea into a reality. Read more...

Ideacodes is currently seeking expert front-end XHTML, CSS and AJAX coder(s) on a contract-to-hire basis. Read more...

Vox, Six Apart's new blog service, launched on Oct 26. Vox puts the emphasis on personal blogging and sharing with friends and family. It features advanced privacy controls, a stunning variety of unique themes, powerful integration with other services like Flickr, YouTube, and more. Read more...

Last Thursday night was the official launch party for Stylehive, the social shopping community focused on new trends, products, designers, stores and experts. The launch party was fabulous. Read more...

It's been a whirlwind month as we've been working on the new design of GigaOM.com, the online property founded by award-winning journalist and famous tech blogger, Om Malik. Read more...

Last month I had the pleasure of hearing from Kaori Omoto, an editor at CNET Networks Japan. Today, eHub Interviews went live as a channel at the Japanese version of News.com. Read more...

I've launched a new section for web 2.0 news and events. eHub News will feature product releases, new features, company changes or broadcasts; while eHub events announces demos, conferences, workshops, unconferences, camps, speakers and gatherings. Visit eHub News/Events and submit your news or event today. Read more...

It's not every day that we can teleport ourselves to the world of high fashion and style. But tonight, Friday, March 24, 2006, you can! Join us at the Stylehive virtual headquarters in Second Life for a fashion show to celebrate the launch of Stylehive.com. Read more...

CommunityWalk, the web 2.0 mapping community, has launched the new Explore feature. The Explore page lets you zoom into the map, select a category, or use a live search to find different public maps on CommunityWalk. You can even enter a search for a specific area of the map, or right click to zoom out. As you click through locations, photos are pulled up below the map dynamically. Read more...

It's with a great deal of personal satisfaction that I write this post. About the time I started this blog, my company started designing the Stylehive, a collaborative shopping community. It's a place where contributors share and discover the hottest stores, styles, designers, trends, and must have products. Read more...

I first visited Corante while a graduate student transitioning from multimedia installation art to web-based work. Many (!) years later, Corante, the world's first blog media company, is still going strong - publishing diverse, unbiased views on technology, science, business, and society. Today, Corante 2.0 takes off with the launch of Corante Hubs and the Corante Network. Read more...

I'm happy to announce that both eHub and emilychang.com have been invited to join the Web 2.0 Workgroup, a network created last month by Michael Arrington of TechCrunch, Richard MacManus of Read/WriteWeb, and Frederico Oliveira of WeBreakstuff. Read more...

I'm pleased to announce a new set of eHub Interviews (Netvibes, Codase, goowy, ColorBlender, Last.fm) has been translated into Japanese by the exceptional Ryutaro Kamitsu. Read more...

On November 1, after two weeks without updates (to inbound links and sites in the Technorati statistics), I logged into Technorati to find my site had jumped in rank from 1,616 (801 links from 423 sites) to 1,047 (1,096 links from 552 sites). At one point during the day, emilychang.com came in at number 999. Read more...

This morning I was checking my inbound links and came across a post, "I'm Off eHubwatch", by Charlie O'Donnell of Union Square Ventures. In his post, he criticizes both the validity of eHub as a resource and also vents his frustration over the business-merit of the applications that are currently listed. I'll let you read his post for yourself, but here are a few comments from my point of view. Read more...

I'm pleased to announce that Max Kiesler and I will be working with Jared Cosulich, creator of CommunityWalk, to redesign the front-end interface for the application. See the news story from my company site also posted here. Read more...

Today is the one month birthday of eHub. I started blogging here at emilychang.com on September 3. A week later, I made eHub as a resource to keep up with the rapid-fire development of new web apps, services, and social trends that I had already been following with a keen eye. I'll post thoughts about the social and conceptual implications of this month's growth, but for the moment, I'd like to share some quantitative data. Read more...

eHub Interviews launches featuring four interviews with creators of web 2.0 applications, including Writely, Protopage, CommunityWalk, CentralDesktop. Read more...

In addition to eHub Interviews launching this week, we're pleased to promote two others that are doing a great job covering the shifting landscape. Read more...

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. Read more...

We're pleased to provide an alpha release of two examples of AJAX image galleries by Max Kiesler and Emily Chang of Ideacodes. One uses PHP and MySQL and the other requires no database and simply pulls images directly out of a designated directory on your web server. Read more...

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, location mapping, open source, folksonomy, design and digital media sharing. Read more...

Looking for a cool web t-shirt and want to help the cause? Get your ajax, ruby on rails, ping me, tagging, beta, design is strategy t-shirts today. All proceeds will go to the Katrina relief efforts. Read more...

I've been keeping my life online at artcodes.com for a long time now, but I've decided to return artcodes to its roots as a place for my art experiments and personal life. Today I launched emilychang.com as my blog focused on strategic design and web. That's the plan anyway. Like life, a website tends to grow and evolve organically often despite our attempts to control it, so I'm taking this as an experiment to see where it leads me. Read more...