Our Portfolio

Vanilla Elephant is a custom online community for musicians, allowing independent artists to sell music, ringtones, videos, and mobile content.

WikiWorldBook is a social search site and global address book, allowing you to find people and be found by old friends. It mashes up Joomla modules and Google APIs to deliver a custom social media site on an open source foundation.

Illumined Connections is a growing collection of custom social networks for community organizations. It uses open source community software to help like-minded individuals share and connect.

InvestingMinds is a social network for stock investors. It leverages open source software to offer wikis, articles, blogs, clubs, forums, chat, fantasy stock portfolios, and many other features.

Client Testimonial: I have really been impressed in our most recent venture with Ben's deep technical knowledge, creative approach to problem solving, and keen understanding of the business issues. It's extremely unusual to find a technology person who understands the business and can communicate in business terms. In his most recent project he built us a robust social networking Web site at a very reasonable cost.

FreeTicketExchange is a social network that helps fans exchange tickets for music, theater, and sports events. We led the conversion of their classic ASP-based site to .NET 3.5, and teamed up with StepChangeGroup to build a Facebook Application for their users.

DCCN provides internet service for residents of Douglas County. We revamped their site, provided a search engine and content management system, and updated their service finder to use Microsoft Virtual Eearth's interactive maps.

Illinois Property Tax Relief is a web mashup that combines property tax assessment information with Google Maps and easy-to-use data mining tools, allowing homeowners to more easily appeal their taxes.

Another web mashup, Streamline Media Partners is a company that helps real estate companies automatically generate accurate, data-rich newspaper ads via a simple web-based interface. This project consolidated full and partial heterogenous MLS datafeeds from multiple providers, allowing users to assemble printed advertisements with a few clicks by mashing up real estate data and automating Adobe InDesign.

Douglas Country PUD got a full redesign, along with a custom job, news, content management system, and search engine. On top of that, the site is Section 508 compliant, and renders a mobile-optimized version when viewed on a handheld device.

We helped Ecotrust expand the Farmer Chef Connection web site, gave them a number of reports for data mining, and provided the expertise necessary to assemble member information into a printed guide.

Errand Solutions is a Chicago-based concierge service. We have been providing design, development, and hosting support for them for almost three years.

We gave our own web site extensive search engine optimization and data mining of over 3 million records for the usenet archive section. DevelopmentNow.com currently receives over 34,000 page views/day and was previously ranked by Alexa as one of the top 100,000 sites on the web.

We provided the Oregon Symphony with general consulting services and a slick new RSVP system for their gala members.

We have provided a number of tweaks, improvements, and enhancements for NAHB public and administrative web sites, as well as helping the Builders Show provide their users with powerful new ways to browse information.