This is where I cook up my mad theories and bake my aesthetic philosophy into something publicly palatable. Everything from Socialuxe Labs is released under a Creative Commons By-Nc-Sa licence. (If you‘d like to use any of this commercially, e-mail me and we can negotiate a commercial licence.)
One of the first webzine-styled themes for WordPress, Gridlock 1.5 is now adapted to work properly with the latest versions of the popular blogging platform. Features delicious integration out of the box and a reasonably flexible display system. Featured in multiple CSS galleries and “Best WordPress Themes” lists. Read more…
A PHP5-based, fully modular, standalone activity stream engine built during SXSW Interactive 2008 to be a base for hackers and developers, powering the activity stream on estonbond.com. The Mélange lifestream engine exists as a framework for activity aggregation of any type — just write your own logger class and off you go.
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The popular “Electropunk” div overlay style I made in 2006, complete with some self-deprecating copy and a heaping dose of MySpace-class arrogance. I guess I nailed the MySpace aesthetic well enough: Gary Hustwit used it as an example of the democratisation of graphic design on social networks in the cult documentary Helvetica. Read more…
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