MyMapr, a social mapping platform, allowed for users to embed, share and create custom maps. It allows users to overlay custom data sets onto Yahoo Maps. It also served as a simple yahoo maps mashup builder as it could export code that could be built upon for creating Yahoo Maps mashups!

Yapplets is a specification that allows for users to create custom data feeds using Yahoo Pipes and then overlay that on a Yahoo Map. A functional prototype was integrated into MyMapr for the Yahoo LMC Hackday competition.

The NextMuni widget allows San Francisco Muni Riders check the next (up to three) bus arrival time(s) of any route at any stop and in any direction. Entered in the First Annual Intern Widget contest Summer 2007.

The Yahoo Maps AJAX API was not sufficently documented and the code usage examples did not build on each other which made it difficult to see how multiple aspects of the API.

I grouped the classes that compose of the Yahoo Maps AJAX API in a logical order and composed three cheatsheets that provide a quick reference for developers in a small amount of space.

My fraternity, Delta Sigma Phi, needed a website revamp when I joined. I gathered additional resources and content that the group felt should be added to the website and performed an entire re-design of the site my freshman year of college.

"Social Visualization is the visualization of social data for social purposes. By social data we mean the traces that people leave as they go about their daily routine. ... Visualizations of these kinds of data can be used for increasing awareness of one's social environment and for highlighting cues and patterns implicit in communication. "

Flava was a project that was completed within 24 hours and was submitted for the Yahoo University Hackday 2007. It utilized data from Last.FM and scraped videos from YouTube's cache to create a seemless set of videos for your musical tastes.

YRunner is an online social running site that manages your running routes. It then allows you to share these with other users by email. Rate the quality of the route. Bookmark to del.icio.us. It was entered in Yahoo University Hackday 2006.

Sliding Campus was a proposal to create a social space whether it was stand alone or in various places. I created a space that connected communities and allowed others to view the activities and people around them.

Videcho is a music recommendation service. It is meant to be a passive experience where a user can give the application their taste in music whether it is an artist or simply a descriptive tag and Videcho will create a variable collection of music videos or live performances based on those musical tastes.

A constant work in progress, rahulmalik.net is my recently acquired web domain and I am working to make sure that it accuratley reflects my work and lifestyle while also being my web application playground :-D