Archive for November, 2008

Web Site Look and Feel

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

We just completed our first Storyboard competition with the help of Studio @ TopCoder, hummm, the output was not quite as snazzy as we were looking for, it was very fairly predictable. Maybe we provided too much info! Yeah that has to be it. Only two submissions though. So could it have been the prize money!

To get something really creative, I have been looking around at web site designs that I like, especially functional ones and something I use often is basecamp, if you have not seen or used it, it’s a very helpful site for collaboration for groups of people, in our case, for a dispersed team from different organizations!

Well -  we already really love the design on basecamp, and today I spotted a very detailed article and it reminded me of just how eye catching and functional basecamps’ design is.

So heads-up TopCoder community we are going to re-launch the UI storyboard on Monday this time trying to separate and differentiate ourselves from the growing number of competitions on the Studio @ TopCoder.

Take a look – and hopefully you’ll compete. We’ll even add some extra special referral bonus, so send to your designer friends, you’ll get something around $50 if they place.

Sharing Docs Shout-out

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

Just had to post something on a great free tool we are using to collaborate and ideate the ChumBonus concept, DropBox, fabulous site, but this implementation is so simple.

I develop on a Mac and the fellow founders are on Windows. It just works, we put a doc on the share and it immediately, way faster than anything else that is free, shares the file with everyone. It also lets you know what is happening and shows you recently changed files. Very slick, 2gb is free!

Great job guys and gals at dropbox. I’ll be signing up for 10gb real soon, pinky for-reals promise.