Customers

Our customer base is extremely diverse, and spans between large corporations and smaller businesses.  We will sometimes create small business websites based on the Wordpress platform, write custom Wordpress plug-ins, create software prototypes for pre-investment start-ups looking to demonstrate a proof of concept, or create complete back-end / front-end solutions.  This is a partial list of the customer projects that we have worked on, or are presently working on:

CollegeFootball.com

We were approached by the owners of the domain CollegeFootball.com to create a new social networking site for fans of College Football.  Collaborating with the client, we created a social networking and news site with a rich set of features.  The entire site was built in four months, with the initial deployment being the week of the beginning of the 2008-2009 season after only six weeks of work.  Some of the features are:

  • complete user profiles, profile pages
  • friending, profile commenting
  • user-generated content (posts, photos, and events)
  • full content commenting, promotion, and moderation
  • rich content access control mechanisms
  • content moderation delegation
  • e-mail notifications to users and admins
  • automated third-party news syndication
  • complete ad-rotation system with tracking
  • activity analytics for monitoring site/user activity

Adobe Developer Connection Desktop

As part of the announcement and roll-out of Adobe’s AIR platform, our team was asked to create a desktop AIR application that included extensible capabilities using plug-ins written using the Adobe Flex environment.  The first release was made available at Adobe MAX with the initial releases of AIR and the Adobe Developer Connection, and then a complete new version was released one year later.  The Adobe Developer Connection Desktop is still being actively promoted by Adobe as a tool for developers.

  • AIR Application
  • install through the web
  • version checking and web updates
  • plug-in architecture allowing for future extensions
  • back-end analytics for tracking usage patterns
  • plug-in for RSS feed monitoring/reader
  • plug-in for Bug Tracking, integration with Jira Bug Base
  • sample plug-ins and documentation for developers

GoHUD.com

The GoHUD.com site was designed and built to service three unique needs.  First, to harvest and archive the full breadth of government HUD properties being offered to the public.  Second to provide a real estate lead generation system allow interested buyers to search for homes and request assistance from agents.  Third to provide ways to offer home information to potential investors.  Some core features:

  • complete web scraping engine to harvest the HUD home data
  • database and file storage for tracking home data and reports
  • user management system
  • agent management system
  • e-mail reporting system for home and request notifications
  • Google Maps mashup for mapping homes

Zipfo.com

With SMS Text Messaging becoming an important form of communications, the HumanXtensions team designed and built a platform for group notifications and reminders as a learning experiment.  The result of that experimentation became Zipfo.com, and in January of 2008 the technology was spun off into Scintilla Communications, Inc. and received its initial angel funding.  The Zipfo platform is currently in pilot with several customers, and is now evolving to integrate with twitter.com, the popular social network/micro-blogging solution.

  • complete user profile solution
  • consumer and business functionality
  • two-way SMS Text Messaging integration
  • public and private group capabilities
  • moderated and open messaging options
  • definable future reminders with repeating capabilites
  • twitter.com integration features
  • public group catalog
  • full analytics and reporting

Overstock.com

Some internal teams at Overstock.com wanted to experiment with adding videos of products to their on-line catalog, and so they approached us to build a solution.  We architected and built an in-house video portal, and example Flash-based widget, that would allow them to upload, transcode, and manage a library of  video content, along with then embedding the player in their catalog pages for video playback.  The entire solution was built and delivered in less than 4 weeks.

  • basic user management system
  • multiple file upload capabilities
  • video library management with titles, descriptions and tagging
  • scalable, distributed background transcoding of video formats
  • creation and management of static and dynamic video playlists
  • video widget placement and content association management

10SpeedMedia.com

The 10SpeedMedia.com project involved creating a complete “Video Affiliate Marketing” solution.  Our team architected a video advertising system that utilized YouTube as a platform for delivering video ads to an Ajax widget.  The system had portals for both advertisers, and web site owners / affiliates, allowing for the creation of self-service advertising relationships.

  • advertiser and affiliate user management with profiles
  • video ad builder allowing for custom sizes, colors, and images
  • integrated click tracking, ad region click tracking, and click-timing tracking
  • full support for pay-per-click, pay-per-action, and pay-per-sales ad programs
  • affiliate application and approval process
  • ad placement creation and customization
  • usage and sales reporting