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» Announcing Zenji Open Projects

Today Zenji Web Development LLC is announcing the creation of Zenji Open Projects, a wiki created for the incubation of open standards and open source software projects related to Zenji’s products and client work.

Most of the projects are aimed to solve “big picture” problems encountered while developing the web site CommuterFeed.com.

The most prominent project of this endeavor has been dubbed “Fire Signal” an open specification for a distributed micro-blog API protocol and an open application server to support it.

Also included are the beginnings of an open transportation alert data format.

If you would like to contribute to the Zenji Open Projects, feel free to visit http://open.zenjiweb.com or add to discussion related to the site at http://groups.google.com/group/zenji-open-projects .

» Zenji Website 2.0!!

Finally, only about 10 months behind schedule the new Zenji website has finally been launched! Still a lot of little things to work out (admittedly, I’m not thrilled with the project pages), but I wanted to release it now, the wait has just been too long.

Much thanks to Ollie Relph, who did most of the design work and the good people at WordPress who have made such an awesome blog engine that its pretty much capable of being used as any type of CMS you want…

Enjoy.

-Ron

» EduFire's on Techcrunch

Always like to give a link to Techcrunch articles about projects we’ve worked on. Good job EduFire!

» Shopflick

Shopflick is now publicly accessible. We’ve lifted the invite-only restrictions so that everyone can shop away. Enjoy and make sure to tell your friends. http://www.shopflick.com

Commuter Feed - Unveiling Pownce

Just wanted to let anybody who’s interested know we’re officially supporting Pownce as well as Twitter on Commuter Feed.

We love Twitter, but understand there’s a lot of people trying out Pownce as well. And their API was so damn similar it was almost too easy..

But the main reason we did this: Commuter Feed won’t be just a Twitter mashup for long…

Ron

» Shopflick Beta Invites

To friends of Zenji, we’ve scored some VIP invites to Shopflick. (Shhh.. don’t tell anybody where you got ‘em…)

» Shopflick on NewTeeVee

» Shopflick on Techcrunch

OK, cat’s out of the bag (finally). The embargo has ended and Shopflick is no longer in stealth mode. We’ve been working on this sucker for 6 months now pretty much full time so its a big deal.

For those who want to know, yes we here at Zenji were responsible for the design of the site from top to bottom, inside and out. (But we didn’t do any of the code).

So read the Techcrunch article, check out www.shopflick.com and sign up for the beta.

» UI Candy

Josh, our frequent design collaborator (Commuter Feed, Shopflick), has just released a really sweet icon pack at http://www.uicandy.net/ if you are a designer, you should definitely check it out…

Commuter Feed - Blog Launch Imminent

We now have a dedicated Commuter Feed blog up: http://blog.commuterfeed.com

Part of this “blog” (aka using Wordpress as a CMS) is to house all our supporting pages, such as About, FAQ, etc. So if you want to read up on all the Commuter Feed goodness, make sure to check the blog.

We also now have a Commuter Feed mailing list signup form. You can sign up here http://zenji.wufoo.com/forms/join-our-mailing-list/

And just want to give a little hint about what’s coming very soon: Pownce

Enjoy.