Intel

Cool Software is a site where users (especially including the general public) can submit software they find for other’s benefit. People can then say if they like it or not, moving it up and down the ranks of the site in a Digg-like fashion. The software at the base is an open source program called Pligg. However, Intel needed some custom features and a template to match their corporate brand. I provided them with both of these. Previous to this job I had only glanced under Pligg’s hood once, and that was for minor CSS and theme modifications only. Given the tight time frame, I was quite pleased how quick I learned the inner-workings of the software so I could write Intel’s custom plugins and other custom features.

Cool Software received around fifty-five thousand visitors in its first public week and now receives about one million a month making it the #1 site on the Software Network. It was very rewarding to work on a project that received such exposure, especially with one of the big players!