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| − | Hey everyone! Welcome to December!
| + | Happy new year! |
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| − | I've been more focused on my code projects, that I am not going to upload my work from [[11th Grade]] this year. Maybe I'll get someone else to do it, or do it eventually.
| + | [[GridView]], my app for [[Facebook]] is at '''490,000 THOUSAND''' users! Growth this month was slow because I did not launch any features during December. GridView lets you add all your friends profile pics to you Facebook profile for you and your profile visitors to see. |
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| − | [[GridView]], my app for [[Facebook]] '''420,000 THOUSAND''' users with about '''50,000 users every day'''!!!!! It's growing at about 10,000 new users every 24 hours. GridView lets you add all your friends profile pics to you Facebook profile for you and your profile visitors to see.
| + | I also moved GridView to a dedicated server (for which I am paying $100/month)! This lets it run without running up thousands of dollars of (mt) overage charges! Server utilization seems to peak around 80%! |
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| − | GridView recently launched GridView Mosaics, which lets you make a photo mosaic of your profile picture with your friends as tiles. Recently, I improved the quality of the Mosaics to contain 4 times the tiles, showing 4 times the detail. Unfortunately this takes up a lot of server resources, I've almost outgrown (mt)'s (gs) system. Looks like it's soon time to move to a dedicated server! | + | I also brought on a partner to GridView, by selling him a minority piece of [[GridView]]. He works in advertising at a major social network and should help me focus on features and make GridView profitable. Speaking of that, I am currently working on a major change to GridView. Lots of you said it world be nice if you could move your friends around... Plus I found some much better mosaic code and I hope to drastically improve the user experience for Mosaics. |
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| − | Also, GridView recently started to sell, through [[QOOP]], products containing your GridView Mosaic. [http://apps.facebook.com/gridview/mosaic.php Check them out!] The products are as follows:
| + | Our [[Dynamic Website Building Instruction and Practical Experience Group Study]] has only a few weeks left. We are working on the [[SeniorQuoter]] admin site which is coming together nicely. [http://flickr.com/photos/theplaz/sets/72157603456826020/ Photos and Screenshots on Flickr] |
| − | *Mugs from $11.99
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| − | *Mousepads from $10.99
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| − | *Luggage Tags from $7.49
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| − | *MyCards from $9.99/pack
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| − | *Magnets from $5.99
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| − | *Stickers from $4.99
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| − | *Keychains from $4.99
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| − | *Greeting Cards from $.99
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| − | *Postcards from $.99
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| − | GridView is reported by [http://adonomics.com/about/2379574490 Adonomics], a 3rd party Facebook analytics system, to have a valuation of $203,462! I am currently in talks to bring a partner on board to help grow GridView and turn it profitable. If you have ideas about that, contact me (see below)!
| + | I also finished my [[Governor's School Application]]. That was enough writing about me for a few months. Also, [[Social Issue-Technological Solution: Wikis|an essay on the power of Wikis]]. However, I will now have a leg up for the college application process. Where do I want to go? I don't know. I do have a few top choices. |
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| − | Our [[Dynamic Website Building Instruction and Practical Experience Group Study]] is nearing the halfway point. Tomorrow, we are finishing up databases, and we plan to start working on [[SeniorQuoter]] next week. For more information and student work samples, see [http://seniorquoter.org/?q=node/21 this post on the SeniorQuoter] site.
| + | Also, [[Tecker 911]] will be filming new episodes in HD. We have 37 episodes done and edited. The last few that were released are: [http://911.tecker.net/?p=79 Episode 27: Notebook Cards], [http://911.tecker.net/?p=78 Episode 26: Words: The Latin Dictionary], and [http://911.tecker.net/?p=77 Episode 25: Behind the Scenes] |
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| − | School is going OK for me. I am increasingly interested in what goes on around the classes. This month is my campaign to end the draconian "[[Classrooms of the Past]]" technology policies. I am also looking at running a desktop background contest. I hope to do this next year for my senior project, so that I may dedicate the time to do it properly. Properly meaning set up a comprehensive website, selecting a judging committee and writing the contest rules.
| + | Oh, I also just posted my [[Three Days for the USA PATRIOT Act Of 2001 (PL 107-56)|research paper]] I did on the Patriot Act in [[8th Grade]]. |
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| − | Also, new [[Tecker 911]]s are out! The last 3 episodes are: [http://911.tecker.net/?p=76 Episode 24: Windows Movie Maker], [http://911.tecker.net/?p=75 Episode 23: Wikipedia Reliability], and [http://911.tecker.net/?p=74 Episode 22: Firefox Add-Ons] Editing is going slow, but Reed, a new member is helping me to speed it along. I trained him this weekend, so hopefully he can turn them out faster. In the upcoming year, I hope to delegate more and more of the Tecker 911 tasks to younger members. We now have a half-a-year lead time between filming and releasing episodes!
| + | All for now! |
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| − | I am also working with a start-up on a new, secret project. It will be very cool! It addition, I am mentoring a student on a new Firefox extension to be distributed through ThePlaz.com Networks.
| + | ''[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|ThePlaz]] 21:04, 6 January 2008 (EST) |
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| − | All for now! (Isn't that enough!)
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| − | ''[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|ThePlaz]] 17:33, 4 December 2007 (EST) | + | |
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Chap 4
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Chap 5
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- Independent Study Withheld
Chap 5/6
(independent study)
- Independent Study Withheld
I don't think there is anything worth posting from this class.--ThePlaz 11:07, 23 August 2008 (EDT)
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Essays and Reports
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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
(need to update)
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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--ThePlaz 21:04, 6 January 2008 (EST)
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