Juxtaviews is a site that focuses on interviewing the people that are making the web. We launched the first week of 08/06.
Juxtaviews features one weekly interview with the company/person(s) that are helping make the web a more interesting place. Our interviews attempt to offer insight not only into the product/concept being discussed, but also the people behind the ideas. Our interviews are informal, and the goal is to produce an informative discussion.
Every friday we do a “link roundup” where we post our favorite websites, sites we’re following, or new websites we’ve come across.
The Juxtaviews site was conceptualized by Kevin Fricovsky. Kevin and Rajiv worked in the same building and would frequently talk to each other about the random going-ons in the web industry. Kevin asked Rajiv if he’d be interested in working on a discussion-like blog where they could discuss the questions that they were asking each other about new products and ideas floating around the web. And so began Juxtaviews. Shortly after Shaun Ellis joined the team to bring his eclectic background in art, music, programming, and his very own funkad-ellis specialties to the team. Following right behind Shaun was Mr. Dave Caplan - programmer, Canadian, and extreme bargain hunter. We’re all very different people, with very different backgrounds, but all working in the same industry - hence Juxtaviews. I hope you enjoy.
Here’s the team…
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Kevin Fricovsky is MCAD.NET Certified Senior Web Application Developer, currently working in NYC, focusing on interoperable, secure, optimized .net web services via SOAP and REST, Test Driven Design, Domain Driven Design, and trying to learn something new every day. He refers to himself as a Solutions Consultant because he researches, analyzes, architects, designs and develops solutions that help solve everday obstacles in both work and personal domains. Kevin graduated from Rutgers University in 2000 with a degree in Journalism/New Media. For the final two years of his stay at Rutgers Kevin engulfed himself in learning web technologies and eventually became Teachers Assistent for various web development courses that focused in Perl, Cold Fusion, CGI, XML, CSS, HTML, Flash, Javascript, and Photoshop. Kevin is constantly focusing in further developing his knowledge and experience in programming best practices and application design methodologies. He continues to learn new languages to gain further insight into application modeling and is currently focusing on Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Over the course of his career Kevin has developed numerous web applications spanning various technologies, industries and requirements - mortgage, finance, sports, ticketing, mutual funds, time/task management, CRM, CMS, ecommerce, etc. Kevin started Juxtaviews to get back into creative writing and interviewing - a side of himself he traded in a long time ago for non-stop programming and learning, functional specification documentation, and requirements gathering. |
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Rajiv Doshi - I grew up in Long Island, New York and currently living in New York City but divide my time with San Francicso. Currently I am the director of internet operations for hollywood.com after they acquired my web site efanguide which I launched in 1999. My web sites have been featured on Access Hollywood, NBC’s Today Show, MuchMoreMusic, E! Online, USAToday, Newsweek, MTV.com, MSNBC.com, Backstage Pass, The Toronto Star, The New York Daily News, Folio Magazine, Tiger Beat, and M Magazine. I love technology especially the future of the web. It’s happening all around us right now as new companies are launching everyday that will someday soon change the way we experience and interact with the web. Visit my personal blog at rajivdoshi.com. |
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Shaun Ellis is a web developer currently building an archive system for electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) at Rutgers University. Shaun has been writing code since the days of the Commodore Vic20. His first major program was a text adventure game, ala Zork, which has been sadly lost to antiquity.Mr. Ellis was a Fine Arts major concentrating in New Media in the mid 1990’s, when the Internet, as we know it, was little more than a zygote. Mr. Ellis became inspired by an inevitable decay of long-standing media distribution barriers and the promise of a truly democratic platform where anyone could contribute ideas to the public sphere.Today, Mr. Ellis has particular interests in digital archiving, open source software, and “good design”. As an activist, a working musician, a husband, and the father of a one-year-old boy, he also has a keen interest in time-saving techniques. |