The DollarChimp team has aggregated thousands of products from almost a dozen suppliers to produce one of the largest Magento sites every built.

eBay wanted a way to bring their auction software to the kiosk. Monsoon worked with HP and eBay to build custom software that optimizes the touchscreen, kiosk experience for the world’s online auction leader.

AT&T wanted to add some interactivity to Fortune Magazine’s “The Most Powerful Women” event, so they talked to Monsoon and HP about building a touchscreen application that guests could interact with to get more information about the likes of Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Sarah Palin. Oops, scratch that. I meant NOT Sarah Palin.

Our team has learned a great deal from Tony Hsieh and the whole Delivering Happiness message. So, we jumped at the chance when the DH team approached Monsoon for help with their official website.

We’ve really enjoyed our recent partnership with eQuest, the leading international job posting distributor for the Fortune 500. Our partnership has included a redesigned version of the company’s flagship software product, Chameleon.

iReuse takes us way back. They were Monsoon’s second customer, when the company was still being run out of a San Francisco apartment. Years later, we are proud of our work helping them developing a range of tools, including the recently completed iScreen tool, which helps organizations screen businesses and reward them for taking positive environmental steps.

Monsoon is looking for a project manager with the chops to join our team.  We need someone with the talent, hustle, and experience to manage projects ranging in budget from 50 thousand to over a million dollars.  Many of these two month to two year projects often require the management of a distributed team of designers and developers.

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Jason Day may have stolen the show at the Byron Nelson Championship, but it was Monsoon’s software that lit up faces in the digital playground at the tournament. Monsoon premiered an application that allowed visitors and participants to create their Golf alter-ego and customize it with the touch of a finger.
 
This year has already been a lot of fun for us – we continue to focus on touch and mobile experiences.   With projects from the NBA, PGA and ITF, we’re excited to combine the power of touch and social gaming to create fun and engaging sports applications. 
 
No one from our team may be able to pull off an eagle at the 18th hole (unless you’re talking Wii Sports), but we’re excited to make software that brings smiles to a sport that has lately been masked by controversies.

Last year, we launched the first touch Twitter application for Windows 7. Since then our obsession with touch, Twitter and 3D user interfaces has continued. Okay, maybe it has gotten a little worse, but it has allowed us to work on some really fun stuff!

We recently had the opportunity to create a Twitter mashup and are excited to bring you Touch Twitterworld in 3D.

The 3D Twitterworld app first premiered at Earth Day on a giant touch wall (courtesy HP). It will soon be offered on the web and as a download for all the fanboys.

Click the image below to see a teaser video showing real-time Earth Day tweets from around the world (3D glasses optional).

Free business idea:

1. Get hold of a South by Southwest Interactive schedule.  (All you really need is the schedule, although I recommend actually attending the conference, for a variety of reasons that have little to do with technology).

2. Glance through the panel listings until you notice that one programming language is repeated more than a few times.  (You should see it listed with an ironic title, like “Technology X: 5 Reasons it will Get You Laid More In 2010″ or with a technical title that is designed to scare away marketing people: “Technology X; Database Architectures for a Semantic Environment”)

3. Note the technology that gets mentioned the most.  Then, build a landing page that positions you as an expert in the field.  (It helps to mish-mash popular programming terms on this landing page. Try “Technology X On Rails” or “Standards-based Technology X.)

4. Get your first project from an unsuspecting customer.  (it helps if said customer is from a large corporation and is looking for this technology because he also attended the “Get Laid More Often…” panel mentioned above)

5. Post a Craigslist, eLance, and/or oDesk ad for Technology X.  If you’re in India, hire people who claim to know this technology.

6. Screw your client over, when it’s revealed just a week before launch, that the developer you hired also attended a panel at SXSW, and believed that his attendance at said panel qualified him for your project. (unfortunately, it wasn’t even the technical one)

7. Go to SXSW next year and repeat.

This is stupid.

Yet, this is essentially what many development shops do.  We wait for projects that require new technology, instead of investing in them early.   We hope, unreasonably, that a client will approach us with the perfect project: one that is simple enough to learn as we go, but still challenging enough that our team emerges with new-found expertise.

This is a mistake, and every year, it’s killing your potential to increase revenue.

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