The flying cars are still on backorder. Somebody get on that,
will ya?
Actually, we (well, “I,” most of the time) write
software that serves a purpose and is easy to use. We use what
technology has to offer us without burying ourselves in whiz-bang
gimmicks that don't help.
Depending on the day, Colagioia Industries provides:
Consulting, with a preference to deliverables over hours, and
happily for companies we like;
Web-Based Solutions, such as those you will find below;
Software, including a standalone server edition of
eManagr for your office, with others in
development; and
Educational Materials, including books and videos (currently
in progress).
Check out our work. At this time, only our web-based applications
are shown, for obvious reasons.
If you need our help with a project,
get in touch!
A Quick Note
While we describe the projects in the present tense, because they can always
get pushed back into service, most of the public-facing project have gone
into the archives, for the time being. Either they didn't bring enough
revenue in to warrant keeping them running, the experiment ran its course,
or a better-funded competitor went on to dominate the market. However, if
you would like a demonstration of any specific project, get in touch at the
link above.
Hosted Software
All Around the News is an experimental news
site, intended to provide interesting stories while helping to
make those stories profitable for everyone, without
treating the reader like an inconvenience.
Articles are low-bandwidth, with images left on the
originating website. This allows for a cleaner
presentation
Easy bookmarking of articles to read later.
Offer to help the reader donate to journalism we all
value.
Reading the news is free, though we accept donations, contracts
to run on-page ads, and will soon offer options for native
advertising.
eManagr is an automated project management system
that’s:
Driven by priorities over deadlines, ensuring that effort gets
the “best bang for the buck;”
Zero-configuration, getting to work as soon as you open your
account; and
Works in the field, communicating by e-mail, with Twitter,
SMS, and “paper sync” soon to follow.
Subscription based. Not available to new customers at this time.
Professional accounts cost $5.99(US) per month.
A Social Me monitors your online reputation,
turning random data into actionable intelligence. Key features
include:
Contents updated daily;
Understanding of the difference between a Facebook friend, a
LinkedIn colleague, or a Digg vote;
Reports delivered to your inbox; and
Different weighting profiles depending on your goals.
Subscription based. Closed, but planning to relaunch with a
more ethical stance than prior attempts.
Agora/Open provides a marketplace and incubator
for Open Source/Open Content materials. Key features include:
Intelligent searching, including genres, color schemes,
dimensions, price, license, and so forth;
Automatic contract and royalty negotiation, should you want to
create a derived work; and
A social-style network to help keep track of what your friends
and partners work on.
Closed for business, with the money-handling code disabled.
When Agora/Open is open, all accounts are free,
but takes 15% of every sale to cover transaction fees, hosting,
and marketing.
OpenKash is a private currency (scrip) designed
to supplement the money supply in distressed communities in the
following ways:
Easily deployable, with nothing needed beyond a single
computer;
Extensible into the real world, providing paper currency with
only a printer and digital cameras;
Anonymous when necessary, just like cash;
Secure when necessary, combining features of checks,
traveler’s checks, and credit cards, when necessary;
Currently under development. The OpenKash service
will be available for free other than creating a balance. The
OpenKash software will also be available free of
charge for those wishing to create their own scrip system.
Standalone Software
You like eManagr, but want control of the server?
Get your own! eManagr can be shipped to your door,
pre-installed and ready to plug into your network, or downloaded
and ready to install on your own server.
Contact us for pricing and availability.
ByPage is an online store for comic books and
other printed, graphical material. Far from a mere shopping cart
and download system, ByPage works the way your
customers work so that they will patronize you instead of the
piracy community, by:
Making material accessible instantly, potentially before
the pirated editions;
Reducing prices over time, encouraging customers to buy
“back issues” and retaining customers who are
patient but thrifty;
Allowing potential customers to browse any book in stock
at low quality for a sample;
Producing downloads in the most common and versatile
format for reading (CBR/CBZ), with others (PDF) optional;
and
Tagging every downloaded page with tracking
information—nobody will ever stop piracy, but you can
quickly determine and penalize “leaks” in your
customer base.
ByPage is still under development, but you may
explore our demonstration system. Please contact us for pricing
and availability if interested.
Friendifier is a social networking platform
designed to be easy to deploy, extend, and maintain. Right out
of the box, it also allows for different kinds of relationships
and intelligent analysis of people with no current relationship.
Still under development, Friendifier will be
available under an open license (likely the GNU Public License),
free of charge.
Part e-mail. Part forum. Part bulletin board. Part chat. Part
blog with comments. Communications reinvented for the dynamic web,
a Bicker server is ready to go out of the box, allowing quick and
effective communications and collaboration.
In short, Bicker works as follows:
Find a message of interest, or start your own.
In an existing message, click on any punctuation mark
and insert your response. Your comments are automatically
inserted for all to see and are automatically
“threaded” into the conversation.
When the comments become too complicated to follow, call
to create a new version—the original poster may
edit a clean copy of the message with disputes resolved; the
old version is archived for reference, and discussion can
start anew.
Google Wave might be getting all the buzz, but Colagioia Bicker
is what you need, if you want simplicity and control.
There is a certain board game that you've all played, involving
properties and hotels and the like. You know the one. It almost
has a monopoly on the market, so to speak.
Before big business got its hands on the game, however, it was
The Landlord Game by Lizzie Magie, intended to
teach economics, particularly the capitalist–communist
ideas of Henry George.
We have unearthed it and will provide it in three ways:
Play it for free on our servers, against the computer or
friends;
Buy the desktop version and host games of your own, complete
with house rules; or
Download the core engine and create your own version of
this historic game.
