A photo-based food review weblog. The majority of food sites are text-based. You wouldn't try to make an unknown recipe from a picture-free cookbook, would you? My friend Aaron and I, over the past few years, have amassed a collection of photos from hundreds of restaurants in New York, California, Italy, Japan, France, and Argentina. We're going to be spending the next year putting everything together in a neat format for all those who want an international visual dining experience.

Carsplit is a service for Columbia University students that forms groups of students going to the airport at the same time to split the cost of a taxi ride. Carsplit has the ease and convenience of a taxi ride to JFK, LGA, or EWR, but at 1/3 the price!

The goal was to create a new, super-clean version of Columbia's Engineering Student Council webpage. The website was to be based in XHTML instead of flash to maximize compatibility. It needed to load quickly and navigation needed to be simplistic. It also needed to be easy to update so that future councils down the road could make changes without having to create an entirely new website.

Friendex is an online directory that connects people through social networks at high schools. Friendex is the best and fastest way to keep in touch with friends, and to meet new ones as well. This project was terminated prematurely, despite massive growth, as a favor for a friend with a competing website (facebook). Shortly after the termination, Facebook launched their high school network.

FaceMix is a physical appearance rating system. FaceMix lets users know how hot they really are by comparing their photo to the photos of other members. Instead of asking members to rate a picture on a scale of 1 - 10, users click the hotter of two pictures. The system then uses a variation of a chess-ranking algorithm to rank all photos against each other on the website. This system is more accurate than a numerical system as it removes errors due to standards of rating (i.e. what person A views as a 5/10, person B may see as a 7/10).

CampusNetwork is a content-driven collection of communities across the globe. First launched in the summer of 2003 as SEASCommunity.com, CampusNetwork was the first student-run online community dedicated to connecting users on college campuses. CampusNetwork offered its original users a unique forum to exchange ideas, to showcase artistic expression, and to connect with other students. It quickly became an important source of social-interaction for its members -- eventually connecting over 75% of the Columbia undergraduate population.

The successor of SEAS Community. Columbia University's first online community. This expansion was the first that allowed multiple schools to join, starting with Barnard College and Columbia. At its peak, CU Community recieved 5,000 unique visits per day, 60% of which came from on campus locations.

The world's first online community for college students. The Community allows members to upload pictures, journals, art, news articles, music, videos, and more. Users can then discuss the posted submissions with each other.

Official website for Columbia University's Engineering Student Council. Lots of flash, animations, and sound effects.

Website for the Columbia University Engineering class of 2006. The site serves as a place to centralize events and create a virtual "space" for members of the class of 2006. Users could upload their favorite photos and discuss issues relating to them.

Shadowness is an art community. Shadowness lets artists express and share their work while teaching and inspiring less-confident users the basics in popular art styles. Shadowness offers the greatest tools to ever-progress on a daily basis. Shadowness also presents to the potential buyers and sellers an opportunity to mold the most fitting talents for business or personal endeavors. Every member counts, each carry Art within and the power to achieve self-expression.

A personal DJing website where users can download mixes, comment on mixes, find out about gigs, and download wallpapers and photos.