• We have official launched more than one Bubbly site. Bubbly is our web-based platform for crowdsourcing creative projects. Check out Remix DC for an example of a Bubbly project.
• Fab Apps worked with Unison Agency to help launch several dynamic new Flash, ColdFusion, and PHP-based websites.
• I worked with Digital Division to help launch their beautiful new website.
• My sister Lacy was the spokesperson for an excellent April Fools Day hoax against Pepco by the Greenwash Guerillas. Read about it in the Washington Post. I officially did not help at all.
• Fab Apps has also continued to do some exciting work with the Social Investment Forum, Green America, and some other great clients in recent months.

Also, sorry my last post was just about South Beach. I just wanted to send some links to a friend and decided to use this blog. I’m totally not an expert on South Beach, but I spent a great week there last year :)

Fab Apps is busily humming along as usual. Some of the really cool stuff we did over the past month was done as a subcontractor to Unison Agency, a very talented design firm in Georgetown. We are also getting close to a few firsts: our first iPhone app in the iTunes App Store and first public launch for a site on the new Bubbly platform. We’re all anticipation.

For a general overview of what the end of 2009 hath wrought, check out the December 2009 Fab Apps email newsletter. Are you on the Fab Apps email list? If not, you might want to go sign up here.

Speaking of email newsletters, have I mentioned the Digital Division email newsletter lately? I help produce it every few months in collaboration with Digital Division, my longest-term client. I usually write the Web Tip column at the end, so go check that out too. I enjoyed writing on this month’s topic: How to send files that are still too large to email in 2010.

Let me add an extra shout-out here to Steven Waters, Fab Apps’ talented and productive Interactive Media Developer. Just because there are never enough chances to say thanks!

I sincerely hope you all enjoy any holidays you choose to observe this holiday season, and have a happy new year!

Here are some quick blips about what I’m working on … starting with Bubbly!

• Fab Apps has partnered with CoolTown Beta Communities for a fun project: Creating a spiffy web-based application called Bubbly that will help cities, towns, and organizations crowdsource fresh ideas and build communities of creative people. Check out CoolTown’s blog for more information about their work.
• Fab Apps is working on a brand new website for the Passionists JPIC effort, which will highlight their important work on U.S. and international social justice and environmental issues.
• Fab Apps is preparing to revamp the Ace Recycling website with lots of new information, because the company has now opened its Richmond, VA recycling facility.
• I’ve been working with Digital Division on their website and social media outreach, as well as working with a few of Digital Division’s nonprofit clients on issues like Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and email marketing.

I have also been up to a few other things, but this is a pretty good overview of what’s been flashing across my computer screen lately! Until next time … stay classy ;)

Also, the Elements Beta Community, of which I’m a founding member, was featured on the front page of the Washington Post on July 27. There’s even a photo of Neil Takemoto in the Affinity Lab office space that we share. Check out the article!

In other news, I’ve had a fabulous summer. In between a lot of hard work, I’ve been boating, swimming, sunning, beaching, and generally having a wonderful time. I could go on … but I need to get back to work :-)

Besides that fact that Steven and I have a great history as friends and colleagues, I’m especially proud that he works for Fab Apps because of his vision to revitalize America’s sprawling, car-centered cities. Fab Apps offers its web development services only to green businesses, nonprofits, and indy media — so having a expert programmer with an important cause is fabulous. Find out more about Steven and his work at his website, livingstreets.com.

Meanwhile, here in the DC area: While I’m on the topic of promoting urbanism and fighting sprawl, I want to also mention the work that my father, Patrick MacAuley, has been doing to fight sprawl in Prince William County, Virginia, a largely rural but developing suburb of Washington, DC. He’s the Chairman of Voters to Stop Sprawl, Prince William County and is also active with a group called Advocates for the Rural Crescent. Voters to Stop Sprawl recently worked hard to put anti-sprawl candidates into the County Board of Supervisors, and their top candidate for Chairman won County elections this November. Congratulations to my dad, his associates, and to Prince William County for a job well done!

Since I don’t have any other brilliant new creations to share at the moment, I wanted to share my twin sister Sheridan’s haiku blog project, where she’s posting a new haiku every day. Here is a fun one:

Thinking in haiku
Can be a beautiful thing
If you have a pen

Sheridan also recently sent me a super cute baby picture of us, where Sheridan is the princess, one of my grandmothers is looking sharp, my mom is apparently a pregnant nun (?), and I’m a lion.

A fellow twin I know has the theory that, as twins, we have every right to gush over our own baby pictures. We’re just that cute :-)

But the video is worth a watch, and it’s only three minutes long. It gets across the concept of Affinity Lab and of Adams Morgan as a “small town in a big city” very well.

Check it out — and if you like it, help us out by signing in or signing up and voting for us to win!