Alexander Kohlhofer

Plays with the internet

I am an entrepreneur with a passion for integrating Web 2.0 technologies and the social web with gaming, design, advocacy and communication. As an application designer I thrive on creating exciting products and great user experiences.

I regularly present at international venues around the world and have lived and worked in the US, UK, Germany and Austria.

No Kahuna

Whether at work, home, or among your friends, we help you work together on projects big and small. Set up your project(s). Refine and distribute tasks. Track them as they’re completed. There’s no fuss, no unnecessary features – just an easy, intuitive and reliable way to make sure everyone does their bit

Bloat.me

Bloat.me creates fun little urls that bloat when clicked. This is not a unique service but nicer than most others. Based on some excellent open source software this project was conceived, built and launched quickly - a perfect fit for Twitter and the likes.

Open Tables

Open Tables is a software application and a spatial environment, which researches and facilitates collaborative working between individuals and groups. The first prototype of Open Tables was launched as a website on September 11th at Nous Gallery, London, and as a ‘fast architecture’ installation at the Tent London 2008 design event, at the Truman Brewery on Brick Lane between 18th and 21st September. The core purpose of Open Tables is to explore the potential for new kinds of collaborative working to emerge in spaces that combine analogue and digital modes of interaction: engaging both the mind and the senses in the navigation and production of information. A typical meeting room has a table to sit around, and probably a flip chart and projector. More creative organisations often realise the importance of providing a variety of stimuli and environments, and typically have some break out, lounge like spaces. Open Tables combines these two familiar conditions, and intensifies them by introducing web based information flows and social networking scenarios, using interfaces which are based upon digital projections onto familiar objects, provoking physical interactions with data, often using the whole body, rather than just a mouse and keyboard. find out more @ http://www.opntables.com/about

The Challenge Machine

The Challenge Machine is a social site for students to take, create and share "challenges" (online mini-quizzes) on topics ranging from animals and pop stars to mathematics. Students aged from 9 to 14 have used the site to challenge each other, experience and question issues to do with online safety, in a safe environment and reflect on their own learning by the construction of quizzes. Originally conceived by Worcestershire LEA as a means to deliver internet literacy and safety training, it has evolved into a way for students to learn about internet literacy and online safety by doing. Silk icons are by kind courtesy of famfamfam The project was initially created by a team at Soda, involving Matthew Gould as well as Tim Diggins and Alexander Kohlhofer. The project is now being taken forward by Red56.

Open Studio

Open Studio is an interactive project run by the Department of Architecture at the University of Westminster to make its design, research and practice-based work available online while it is happening. The site acts as a 'real time' teaching and learning environment in which staff and students run a series of blogsites—each of them based on the work of its design studios, or its other teaching and research groups and workshops—and all of which experiment with innovative forms of education technology.

Permatime

Imagine you want to announce an event with participants across different time zones. Simply set the time, in your time zone, and permatime.com will generate a link for it. If you share this link with others, they will see that time in their own local time zone (and any other zones they choose). Use a permatime link to arrange a phone call, timestamp a blog post, announce a webinar...

Team Portfolios

Team Portfolios is this site! A site for people to show the projects they have built, and the colleagues they built them with.

Irrepressible.info

A hugely successful viral campaign for Amnesty International for their 40th anniversary. Targeting Internet censorship, the project enables individuals to re-publish censored material from around the world on their own sites. This awareness raising campaign has reached an audience of millions through its many thousand active participants. Available in English, Spanish, French and Arabic.

Weewar

Weewar is an award winning turn based strategy game. Up to 6 players can command their pixel armies against each other on the thousands of maps, generated by the community. You play in your browser so it works anytime and anywhere. No downloads and no setup required!

The Connected Republic

A site commissioned by Cisco to enable the development of their existing community, a set of public sector issues and discussing issues surrounding e-government.

Corkify

A shared corkboard with note cards you can add manually or sync with an rss source (typically an application's rss feed).

TN2020.net

TN2020.net was part fo the internet strategy for the British Council's Transatlantic Network 2020 summit in 2008. It works as a hub that allows members of the network to connect on multiple levels by aggregating their pictures, videos, links, blog posts, twitter messages - any kind of content to do with TN2020. A dedicated camera crew created a video podcast covering the summit. New episodes were published every day and are available via iTunes.