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Mashfest
Mashfest aims to create the largest database of music festival information on the web. We plan to make available lineups, schedules, photos, and videos from all major music festivals since Woodstock. All in one place.
Want to see a festival lineup for any given year? Just browse the list of music festivals, then select the year you are interested in. Mashfest will show you a list of the bands who performed that year.
Want to find more information about a band on the lineup? Just click the band’s name to see a photo and description of the band. This functionality is provided by utilizing the Last.FM API.
Need to create a schedule for the festival? No problem. Just click the “schedule” tab for that festival, then start picking shows to add. Here’s a screenshot of me adding “The Octopus Project”.
Discussions you’ve contributed to and shows you have attended will be added to your profile page. See who else attended or will be attending the same shows. Find out who has similar taste in music. Contribute photos and videos you’ve taken and add them to the gallery for that festival.
Follow the development of the site and the latest additions on the Mashfest blog.
Want to see videos we’ve taken at festivals? Check out the Mashfest video channel:
Jason’s Deli
In the Fall of 2007, we worked with Brains on Fire (an identity company based in Greenville, SC) to create a new website for Jason’s Deli. The site is powered by Drupal, an open source content management system that we customized to work with data from OrderTalk, an online ordering system. Couple this with some beautiful graphics from Brains on Fire, and you’ve got one of the best restaurant websites in the world.
Need to find the store nearest you? Just enter your zip code and the store locator will find it for you.
Want to have deals sent to your email address? We integrated the site with ExactTarget, an email marketing tool.
But is the food healthy? Browse the Jason’s Deli menu online and view nutritional information just like you would on a nutritional label at the grocery store.
Jason’s Deli loves their employees and their food, as you can see in the LoveBites section of the site. In the quarterly online publication, you can read articles about the real folks who work there.
Finally, Jason’s Deli loves hearing from their customers, so leave your feedback on the Founder’s blog. Recently Jason’s Deli made the decision to remove High Fructose Corn Syrup from all of their food. Jason’s is now deciding on what to do about soft drinks. Recently nearly 3000 customers expressed their opinions on this by voting on the Jason’s Deli blog.
OdonataCentral
OdonataCentral was designed to make available what we know about the distribution, biogeography, biodiversity, and identification of Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) world-wide. I worked on this site with Dr. John Abbott, who is the Curator of Entomology at the Texas Natural Science Center and a Senior Lecturer in the Section of Integrative Biology at UT-Austin.
Biologists and “citizen scientists” take photos of dragonflies and damselflies, identify the species, and submit latitude/longitude coordinates where these species are located. They then submit these records to OdonataCentral so that we can map the distributions of over 5,000 dragonfly and damselfly species. Today there are nearly 150,000 records on OdonataCentral.
All records are first submitted to a queue where they are vetted by expert administrators who can tell whether the record is indeed associated with the correct species. If the record is determined to be valid, then it is accepted and mapped.
The site uses Google Maps to plot species distributions. However, unlike most Google maps, OdonataCentral uses county overlays as shown below. If someone wants to find out if there are records of Acanthagrion quadratum in Travis County, they can do so.
We also build KML feeds so that you can view distributions on your desktop using Google Earth. Very cool!
Interested in submitting your own records to OdonataCentral, but don’t know where to start? Just browse the online field guide to learn how to identify them. Then head over to Zilker Park and see if you can catch one!
