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» DocDrafter - A new documentation writing service

Zenji is launching a pilot program of a new documentation writing service called DocDrafter. You send us notes or data, and we’ll create beautiful drafts of all those boring documents you don’t have the time to write - flow charts, software specs, use cases, wireframes, and marketing status reports etc with per-page pricing schemes. Get in touch to see what we can do for you.

Some Updates…

It’s been a long time w/ no blogging folks. Well, today there is some movement in Zenji-land.

About two weeks ago I finished building and launched a client’s site called Mondette.com, a new hyperlocal / fashion blog network of sorts (built in Wordpress MU) for here in Los Angeles. Well, looks like they got a pretty sweet spread in the Sunday (Oscar day) LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/features/image/la-ig-mondette-20100307,0,4505873.story . Congrats to the Mondette Ladies!

Also just discovered today Commuter Feed was listed in Lifehacker’s 10 Tips for Commuters. Pretty cool.

Of course the passion project Where’s Cool? is chugging along just fine. Lots of cool stuff to check out over there as always.

AND - we’re (yes that’s a we) working hard on a top secret product that will hopefully make indie bloggers’ lives a little easier. May be game changing. We’ll see.

Check back, kids.

Ron

» Announcing Zenji Mobile

This week Zenji is launching the “exploratory” spinoff service Zenji Mobile (www.zenjimobile.com), to gauge interest in iPhone, Android and other mobile platform development services.

Looking out for iPhone and Android app UI designers and junior engineers. Contact me if interested!

Where’s Cool? - now in public alpha

Been wondering what we (aka “I” aka Ron) have been up to here at Zenji? Check out www.wherescool.com - travel advice your mom probably wouldn’t like.

This has been under construction full time since July and is currently available to view and add content to. Check it out.

» 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…)