Bloglines is one of the leading online RSS aggregators that competes with Google Reader. As one of the front-end developers, we developed the Beta Bloglines product that highly leverages AJAX talking to our backend servers. The website used Dojo Toolkit and Javascript, CSS, and DOM. I worked a lot on the rendering engine and view types that are used in the interface which were highly optimized for speed.
TVHarmony was born out my love for my TiVo, as well as my interest in undestanding the convergence of computer and media in the living room. As part of that, I developed, TVHarmony AutoPilot, a shareware desktop application that automatically downloaded video from your TiVo and converted it into a format compatible with video players such as the Apple iPod. Autopilot was written in C++ and MFC/ATL/COM, and included some web technology for downloading and converting Youtube videos. AutoPilot was briefly mentioned in TVWeek and Popular Science magazines, as well as SlashDot.org
As part of Ask.com, I worked on the Ask Desktop product, which was an application for indexing and searching documents on your computer. It was written in C++ and MFC, but also included an integrated web server and a browser extension to seamlessly integrate your local searches with web searches.
Once part of Visioneer, PaperPort is a personal document organizer that works seamlessly with a scanner and OCR to make organizing your images and documents easily. PaperPort was the first product in it's class. I was one of the original authors of the Mac PaperPort product, but also, over time, worked on the Windows version
During the late 1990's, I was one of the founders of Echobahn, which developed software to help manage your web bookmarks and integrated with IE, AOL, and Netscape before the advent of an extension interface. It had an alternative interface for bookmark and history management, and included thumbnails, full text search, and syncing to other computers and a web server for remote bookmark management.
Claris was the software subsidiary of Apple Computer which developed desktop software such as MacWrite, MacDraw, Filemaker, and MacProject. As part of a team, I helped develop MacProject Pro, the second generation of the popular MacProject project management package. MacProject Pro was the first object oriented application written at Claris using C++ and MacApp, an object oriented framework.