Evan Sims

Evan is a 25 year old designer, programmer and college student from the cornfields of Illinois. Aside from being a freelance web developer, he is also an aspiring video game designer. Learn more.

Free for Job I am currently available for contract work! I have over a decade of experience in building appealing, standards-based web designs and applications. Check out my resume on LinkedIn, my list of ongoing projects and if you feel like we might be a good fit, drop me a line.

Subscribe

RSS Feed RSS Feed
RSS Feed Email Updates

Add to Technorati Favorites

Lijit Search

Last Seen

S Pine St, Arcola, IL

I'm not 100% sure what "Troll Juju" is, but I'm looting the hell out of it.

Lifestream

gOS "Cloud". Interesting, but I can't imagine it being very robust. http://www.thinkgos.com/cloud.php

Tuesday 0:49

Playin' some WoW, waiting for one of my blogs (roguehelix.com) to finish upgrading to WP2.7-RC1.

Monday 18:59

Pownce.com is shutting down? Interesting. I wonder how they'll make this up to active Pro subscribers.

Monday 15:54

This is quite possibly the funniest Simpsons I've seen in years.

Monday 1:20

Shared 2 links

Fan-made Black Mesa Source trailer reinvents original Half-Life

Amazon SimpleDB Grows Up

Monday 1:05

Exploring Tag: brightkite

The following entries are related to this topic. · Search Technorati · Explore Archives

July 31st, 2008
Projects ↵
Comments

Tags:


Brightkite Location v1.0 Beta Released

Decided to release my Brightkite Location plugin for Wordpress tonight in beta form. The plugin, which you may have noticed on my homepage, aggregates your Brightkite data, showing your location and your latest note or photo. It even builds a sexy little static Google Map for you, and will refresh your information every 10 minutes.

I haven’t had an opportunity to test this on many environments, but it should work on Apache under Windows or Linux under most circumstances. Has very few system requirements (PHP5 and fsockopen support.)

Give it a download and let me know if you encounter any bugs. Thanks!

Update Beta 2 is now available with a fix for Dreamhost users and new customization options.

April 28th, 2008
Reviews ↵
Web ↵
Comments

Tags:


Brightkite is Slick

Finally got an invite to Brightkite tonight (thanks Jeff!), and I’m pretty damn impressed to say the least. The best way to describe Brightkite is something like a mash-up of Plazes, Twitxr and to some degree Twitter itself, though it’s much more of a companion to the former than it is a competitor.

Basically, you decide to broadcast that you are at some geographical location using your laptop or cellphone (i.e. The Starbucks on Green); you can see who else is there right now or has been in the recent past, and you can share photos and notes during your time there. It’s sort of an ad-hoc virtual community based around physical locations. The best thing? It all integrates with Twitter and FireEagle, so now your “I’m at Barnes and Noble” messages can actually have some useful metadata attached- who else is there? Where is that Barnes and Noble located? What does it’s interior look like?

So, it’s essentially a stalkers best friend, right? Well, luckily the Brightkite team was smart enough to impliment some decent privacy controls- you can define how much information you want to give out to the public, your friends, or your “trusted friends”.

I really love Brightkite; it’s not just a great idea, but their implementation is brilliant. The UI is responsive and sleek, and it doesn’t feel like a chore keeping it up to date, a problem I always had with Plazes. My only complaint is the lack of an API right now. I’d love to hook a certain GPS project of mine into this bad boy and have it automated some of the aspects. But, like all things 2.0, I’m sure they’re working on it.

© 2000-2008 Evan Sims. Content redistributable under terms. Hosted by (mt) Media Temple. Powered by Wordpress. Fueled by ramen.