This site was built with the Riot CMS and includes among others

• newsletter system
• official moderated support center
• weekly polls
• press center (for accredited journalists)

With this Internet Explorer toolbar users can search the german Yellow Pages fast and easy, directly from every website.

It integrates seemingless into Microsoft’s browser and allows different searches with multiple options such as a geographically localized search. Additionally, the user is able to customize his toolbar interface.

Universal’s music DVDs offer high quality music with brilliant images. The challenge was not only to display the complete catalogue of music DVDs but to create a good user experience.

Users are able to order products online and find informations, and shots of every DVD. Some community features such as rating were built in as well.

The CMS has to connect to Universal’s main database server. Its original data were fetched via a XML-RPC interface and extended with editorial informations.

In the Jack Daniel’s webstore the customers can browse through the products, and can order whiskeys, or merchandising products.

On the backend a base Customer Relationship Managment has been built.

Via this information portal the Architectural Association Hesse (i.e. the Riot CMS editors) can publish and maintain all the contents for architects and principals.

Particularly frequent an events overview with registration service has been visited and used by the more than 10,000 members. Additonally, there are some brochures and other informative literature to order online.

I wrote this paper for a major german music label to expose the key issues of building up an successful online music store. Main task was to show how distributing digital music can be commercially fruitful, and fit the customer’s need at the same time.

The paper gives an overview on digital rights management, on varying digital music techniques and their ability to protect the label’s rights.

The second big task was the technical conception of creating the new system and integrating it with legacy systems.

Netzwerkstatt was an intranet project for the Deutsche Telekom, where employees could train and learn. It was an online learning environment consisting of tutorials, FAQs, and other basic knowledge management services. A lot of community functions such as forums and internal messages were built in.

Particularly interesting about this was the Web-Radar: A Java applet showing all users online in their current areas, thus assisting topic related discussions.