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| + | I'm witting this in a hotel in Miami. On Sunday I will leave for a Western Caribbean cruise on the Carnival Valor. It's 76F outside and sunny. This is going to be a fun trip. I'll post pictures when I get back. Have fun on your spring break wherever it is. Havertown is still lots of fun and I know some of my friends are in Europe. |
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− | [[Tecker]] (http://tecker.net) the social question and answer service aimed at tech users is continuing to do really well. We are expanding slowly; we have about 60 users now. We just added advertisements to Tecker and [[Tecker 911]], both network and featured (direct, no network). As always stay tuned at our development blog at http://blog.tecker.net/. We are just putting finishing touches on the page with recent answers. | + | We ([[Team 484]]) didn't do so well in Annapolis at the regional. We came in 26th out of about 55 teams. We weren't picked for the finals, but were last in the "dog pond." See more at [[Team 484#Annapolis Regional]]. |
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− | The Tecker derivative, [[Conflicter]] (http://conflicter.org) is not doing well. Conflicter is a place for frank discussions on global issues. I finally opened it to the public, but no one knows about it. Maybe activity will pick up. | + | The Drexel robotics regional is ongoing now. I was only there for the set up and practice day, but we did very well that day. We were the first to be inspected and all practices went very well. |
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− | [[Tecker 911]], the video technology help webcast is coming along nicely. The first 8 episodes are up at http://911.tecker.net and have been aired on [[Channel 11]] in Haverford Township. 7 more episodes are in the can, I need to edit 5 of them. Each one takes approximately 2-3 hours to edit, so it always takes a while. | + | [[Tecker 911]] [http://911.tecker.net/?p=48 Episode 9: MLA Formatting] is out and features my [[:Image:MLA Paper.dot|MLA Template]]. More episodes are in the can, and are coming soon. |
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− | The first semester classes are all up online and organized at ThePlaz.com. I'm a month into 2nd semester and online postings are really behind. I am also working on posting some other things, which were not required for school.
| + | Everything going well. I'll ve back in a week with pictures. |
− | | + | ''[http://theplaz.com/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:ThePlaz&action=edit§ion=new Leave Plaz a (public) message] [[Image:File_icon.gif]] or [[User:ThePlaz:E-mail me|send me a (private) e-mail.]][[Image:Mail_icon.gif]]''--[[User:ThePlaz|Plaz]] 17:59, 30 March 2007 (EDT) |
− | Last time I wrote, the build season for our [http://usfirst.org FIRST] robotics club, [[Team 484]] started recently. Now it's over. After putting in about 4 nights a week for 6 weeks our robot is done and shipped. The Chesapeake Regional competition is this weekend. We leave tomorrow for it. I will try and get pictures and a report up when I come back.
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Michael Plasmeier
"ThePlaz"
My name is Michael Plasmeier, but almost everyone calls me Plaz. I am a Associate Product Manager at Yahoo - working on the Membership and Geo-related platforms teams. I graduated from MIT in 2013 in Computer Science and Management. I am halfway between the tech and the business world, doing both web development and product development. My interest in doing both started while I was working on GridView, an app I built after 10th Grade that reached 1.3 million users on Facebook.
Internships
Last IAP, I was a Software Development Extern doing testing in Ruby on the back end at CardSpring. Last summer, I was Product Manager at Disney Parks and Resorts Online where I worked on a project for Disney Cruise Line. Last January, I worked in management/strategy consulting at Altman Vilandrie & Company. The previous summer, I was a web developer at NextJump, an online affiliate advertising firm in New York. Prior to that, I was an extern in the Office of the Chief Scientist at State Street. My freshman summer I worked at Deutsche Bahn, the German national railroad, where I designed the smartphone version Touch&Travel, an app that lets you pay for the train with your phone.
MIT
At MIT I was heavily involved in classes, usually taking 7 classes a term, while being involved in student government. (I wrote about how I do it in Working out a System.) senior was dedicated to wrapping up requirements. Junior year at MIT I focused on EECS classes, as well as being elected president of Baker House. My second year at MIT focused on management classes. I was also involved in the vendor selection and implementation of the new dining plan. Freshman year, I took core classes and served on the Athena and Printing Committee. (I wrote about just hanging on freshmen year in Learning to Learn.)
Websites
I built a lot of web projects in high school. My most popular project, was GridView [1], an app for Facebook which lets you add the profile pics of all of you're friends to your Facebook profile. GridView had over 1.3 million users and made me some money.
I hosted and produced the video podcast Tecker 911 [2] along with some of my friends. Tecker 911 was a series of 100 5-15 minute shows each which covers a technology topic in a way which is relevant for ordinary people, with a focus towards students and our community. Tecker 911 was also shown on our local public access channel Channel 11.
I started SeniorQuoter, [3] an open-source web application for senior quotes collections for high school yearbooks. In 11th Grade, I lead a Dynamic Website Building Instruction and Practical Experience Group Study at my high school. I helped 4 other students learn PHP and MySQL and then I project managed version 2 of SeniorQuoter, the administration interface.
Tecker and Conflicter were question and answer services I built in 10th Grade. They never really caught on, but they were the perfect way to learn PHP. Dictionary Robot is something I tarted last year, but abandoned later. In 10th Grade, I was a member of Team 484 and in 11th Grade I was their webmaster.
In 8th and 9th Grades I wrote bunch of programs for the TI-83+.
Tech
My first two years at MIT, I was a regular on The Weekly Spin, a weekly take on tech stories and tech policy.
On my Tech page I have had a few pages about Devices I own and other small things that I have built. For example, I also made some improvements for MediaWiki, the software that runs ThePlaz.com and Wikipedia. I made a new skin for MediaWiki and a few MediaWiki extensions
Other Accounts
I also tag a lot of stories on Delicious. I also have over 70,000 photos on Flickr. I Tweet kinda regularly. I also post things to YouTube. And of course I have a Facebook. It all comes together on my FriendFeed.
A Collection of Tools I created to help students.
Templates
Skills
ThePlaz in often mentioned or interviewed in the news
MIT
MIT Dining
MITx/EdX
Baker Piano Drop
Tecker 911
GridView
ThePlaz.com Praise
- Sam's Praise about my site
- Baron Harkonnen's Thanks
- Thanks for uploading Flickr photos
- Uses Many ThePlaz.com Wiki features
- A Drexel professor told me on the first day of class that I take very good notes and I would graduate suma cum laude from Harvard due to the quality of my notes at Gov School
- Hi I saw your page about that download for the ferris wheel unit for IMP4, I didn't download it but even the info you had on the page helped me out. I have no idea what I'm doing and just started this year- i really get stuck on my homework EVERY night. Right now im working on HW 2 "As the ferris wheel turns" and i have no idea what I'm doing. But i just wanted to say thanks cause I'm gonna download that once I'm farther into the unit!--A Facebook user (J. S.)
- Just wanted to let you know: I stole your headline method of note taking from your website and it is completely saving my life in American Studies. -Rebecca C.
- Hey, you do have one of the best designed websites I have seen lately. Good job. A little flashy, but still functional. --Email comment 8/18/2010
Videos
Spoofs/School/Short Films
Tech/Reviews
Highlights
Trips/Vacations
Places/Events/Daytrips
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Tech/Unboxing/Products
Pictures on the Wikimedia Commons
Articles
Free Apps
Free Programs
Libraries:
Minor/Useless Programs:
I am a lot into technology. Here are links to some of my web sites as well as modifications and how-to articles about other software.
My Websites
Devices
MediaWiki Tweaks
Essays/Thoughts
Other
- You must register (for a free account) to edit pages.
- My site contains mostly my homework and projects as well as various stuff from my life. I am continually adding stuff. If you don't see what you need, ask me a question, or add it yourself. Just hit "Edit" at the top of the page.
- Check out the user pages! All site members get their own page too! So don't be afraid to change and add to your page. You can do anything you like! Your user page is at [[User:{{USERNAME}}]].
- New server (should be far faster and fix speed issues!!!) and URL scheme (should be shorter and easier to remember) Old links should still work and redirect you to the new site! --ThePlaz 23:58, 17 January 2009 (EST)
- Please note our General disclaimer
- Thank you to Michael Gdovin who came up with the domain name.
- Uploading now enabled for the following file types: 'png', 'gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'ogg', 'zip', 'doc', 'xls', 'ppt', 'pps', 'pdf', 'mp3', 'wav', 'wma', 'wma', 'txt' Please upload responsibly, any inappropriate uploads will be tracked and deleted.
- ImageMagick now installed for better thumbnails --ThePlaz 17:48, 5 May 2007 (EDT)
- For up-to-date info see Special:Statistics
There are 6,499 total pages in the database, including 1,578 pages in the main namespace and 5,000 files uploaded. These counts do not include OneNote notebooks on minisites or SkyDrive, and count multi-page files (PDF and Word) as one page.
There have been a total of 5,163,449 page views, and 16,470 page edits since ThePlaz.com was setup. That comes to 2.53 average edits per page, and 313.51 views per edit.
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