Software

Freedom (http://macfreedom.com/)
Description: Freedom is a simple productivity application that locks you away from the internet on Mac or Windows computers for up to eight hours at a time. Freedom frees you from distractions, allowing you time to write, analyze, code, or create. At the end of your offline period, Freedom allows you back on the internet. Featured in The New Yorker, The Economist, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, Salon Magazine, Slate Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Telegraph (UK), The Guardian (UK), The Irish Times, Financial Times, USA Today, The Chronicle of Higher Education and on the popular blogs Boing Boing, Lifehacker, Signal vs. Noise, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Download Squad, Mashable and Hacker News.
Anti-Social (http://anti-social.cc/)
Anti-Social is a neat little productivity application for Macs that turns off the social parts of the internet. When Anti-Social is running, you’re locked away from hundreds of distracting social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter and other sites you specify. With Anti-Social, you’ll be amazed how much work you get done when you turn off your friends. Featured in The New York Post, Filmmaker Magazine, TidBits, UsesThis, Digital Campus Podcast. (Released June, 2010)
ClaimID (http://claimid.com)
Description: ClaimID is a consumer identity management utility. ClaimID enables the presentation of a selective, curated link-based identity, and provides users with emergent identity management tools, such as OpenID and Microformats. ClaimID is a production service, with over 100,000 registered users. ClaimID was co-designed with Terrell Russell. Featured in USA Today, The New Scientist, The Christian Science Monitor, The Times of London, Business Week, Information Week, Reuters.
Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Perl, PHP, JavaScript, MySQL.
Amazon Wishlist Analytics (http://fredstutzman.com/amazon.html)
Description: Amazon Wishlist Analytics is a prototype of a pricing analytics program. This program examines an Amazon Wishlist and collects historical pricing data (among other things). With this data we’re able to provide a number of services, including price deltas, value magnitude estimation, and value/price prioritization. In the current prototype, this information is delivered via email, once a day. Currently under development.
Technologies: Perl, MySQL, Amazon API.
Campaign Meme Finder (URL by request)
Description: This application post-processes content-based information traffic, looking for novel citation trends within particular time intervals. This produces a series of “interesting” posts for any search term. It is currently being used in the context of mining data from the 2008 election. Presented at JCDL 2008.
Technologies: Perl, PHP, JavaScript, MySQL
Social media recommender (http://www-dev.ibiblio.org/fred/stuff/yts/)
Description: Utilizing the Facebook Platform, this application generates novel recommendations based on group tastes. The application’s informal name, “Your True Self,” nods to homophily and group preference. This is also an exploration of interfaces, challenging us to think about different representations and forms of connection in ego-centric networks. Presented at ASIST 2007.
Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, Facebook API
Lyceum (http://lyceum.ibiblio.org/)
Description: Lyceum is a stand-alone multi-user, multi-blog platform branched from the WordPress codebase. While I did concept work, management and some coding, Lyceum’s current instantiation is the work of John Joseph Bachir, my friend and former co-worker. Presented at ASIST IA Summit 2004.
Technologies: PHP
Other Projects
In addition to the above projects, I’ve worked on a number of Facebook apps, an app called Newsy that delivers contextualized news via RSS, and lots of other stuff. It should be noted that my most useful apps are my most unglamorous. These include birthday reminder program and a series of bookmarklets I use for research. You can find more hacks and software on my blog. Also noteworthy is that this page does not include any of the professional or consulting development I’ve done. That work is notoriously less interesting – things like writing code for VoIP switches and scripting Tivoli deployments.