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CrowdPlace
Co-Founder
Save and Share Your Digital Life
Social sites come and go. You need one place for all your stuff. 
Create your personal digital destination.

CrowdPlace is a new type of semantic/ structured data platform.
With this little project we have a simple goal:
Organize people’s information and make it more accessible and useful.
So, we designed and launched a new way to do this that is going to get pretty interesting. The alpha was released May 2010. The beta was released in October of 2011.
Current Status: Active and growing

On founding team

I have believed for years in the power of the Internet of Things and we came up with some great ideas around that concept.
I got to work with a great team to build a first of its kind platform in that space.
Current Status: Active product. Operational experts have taken over and I have moved to new projects.

Tomorrow’s Trends

Blogger


I started and wrote for the Tomorrow’s Trends blog for years. It became part of the prestigious Forbes blog network and the AllTop blog network.
It covered emerging trends, tech, and innovation.
Current Status: Sold to a private company.

SurfRate

Founder

Around 2000, I built and launched SurfRate- a people-powered search engine and directory that ran on user reviews of Web sites. Mentioned in Smart Money Magazine.
Status: Sold to a private company.

OneRef - Mining the conversation of the web


OneRef was a search engine for news, blogs, bookmarks, tweets, videos, and pictures.
Instead of pointing you to a web page, it finds the latest conversations and images on the web pertaining to your search.
Current Status: On Hold/ Discontinued

I’ve designed a lot more systems in the past 4 decades, from a Monty Hall Problem simulator (when I was young) to one of the first Web-based RSS feed reader platforms. I developed an Intranet from scratch (before everyone had one) and a social news-feed type workflow system (over 10 years ago). I can discuss these in person. I love to discuss tech products and design with tech product people, designers, and developers.

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Avatar I'm Will, a Principal for an Innovation group of a Fortune 500 company. I like ideas, building new things, and people who are independent thinkers. This blog is an assortment of random stuff usually related to design, technology, business, economics, or science. more






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