Karmatics.com

The main thing of substance on this site at the moment is the Aardvark Firefox extension, which is pretty popular (and was a Lifehacker download of the day and made it to #1 on Digg and del.icio.us). It's mostly popular among web developer types, but I find its best thing is just for cleaning up a web page before printing it (by isolating the article itself, and then blasting all the rest of the crapola). It also works as a bookmarklet, so no need to install anything, and no requirement that you use Firefox.

I was pretty thrilled to have another Digg and del.icio.us topper recently, this time for my writing no less. (who woulda guessed?) This article, Evolution and Wisdom of Crowds, was even featured on Slashdot, getting more comments than any other post that week. (it was also linked on numerous blogs all over the web, including one that liked the article, but referred to the page you are looking at now as the "worst web site ever"). I suppose he's got a point.

Other than that, I do a lot of funky Ajaxy stuff (specializing in cross domain Ajax), things centering around game theory, voting and election methods, and incentive structures (such as reputation/"karma" systems), and a whole bunch more. I have a background in industrial design, and used to do 3d CAD viewing and navigation tools (which I have a couple patents on). I do loves my C++, but seem to mostly work in Javascript these days. I don't usually do web design, but I did do this site, which among other things has some cool javascript photo galleries I wrote from scratch (and keep meaning to do something more with).

Email me if you want to see more of my work (much of it is under wraps still, but I'll show it to you if you ask real nice)~~, or if you want to see a resume. I'm open to part time gigs, or the right full time job if in the Bay Area~~. (just started a job as a UI Developer here)