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A former freelance designer to my first startuphad the seeds of an idea. What if a bit torrent TV download/streaming site got mashed-up with social networking? Find shows you like, share them with friends and discover new stuff from people like you.

Good idea. You can see the intro video on YouTube.

I took the idea through to reality with legal and content partners and the core technical team. The site launched to rave reviews and attracted more than one million unique users in the first 30-days after launch. TIOTI was acquired in late-2008.

I’ve always been a huge music fan. I mean, it has to count for something that my library has LCD Soundsystem, Too $hort, Arvo Part and Katy Perry (among others.) Reverb® is a framework that attempts to keep downloadable content free to users, profitable for content owners and powerful for brands. The Reverb architecture inject real-time suppressible advertising into content streams to enable what we called a “freemium” business model back in 2001/2.

Glue™ and ChannelCart™ were the first products to go all the through to issuance by the US Patent Office.
The patent covers “Systems and Methods for Extracting and Adapting Data” from disparate Websites. For curious fellow entrepreneurs, the time from filing to issuance was about 4 years, mid-2005 to mid-2009.

Good user experience doesn’t happen by accident. It’s the product of careful thought about how an online or mobile experience looks from the user perspective.
I’ve created dozens of diagrams like the one shown here for client engagements of all shapes and sizes. Additional samples are available upon request.

Online banking + payroll services + services that vary depending on your industry, all in one Web application. Landscapers,for example, get a calendar and weather widget that lets them plan crew deployments. Restaurants get an alert widget that shows them when someone reviews them, or a competitor, online.
Heady stuff for 2001 … 9+ years ago now!