Case Study Candidates, with points of contact

See also CaseStudyQuestionnaire.

Scaling

• Disqus (Brett Hoerner, David Cramer)
  • Powers commenting on CNN.com, MTV.com, Engadget. 250 million users per month, 17,500 requests/sec. they have around 100 servers. See slides on ​Scaling Disqus.
• addons.mozilla.org (Jeff Balogh) - Site serves 165 million requests per month. Was previously using CakePHP.
  • JDunck - Contacted to do study Sept 13, 2010.
• BazaarVoice (Jon Loyens)

Non-profit

• PBS (@tarequeh) ​Pluggable applications slides and ​Teaching an old pony new tricks slides.
• National Geographic (Rich Leland @richleland)
• Discovery (Josh Ourisman)
• RapidSMS (Andy McKay, Matt Berg) saving kids lives with Django

Government

• NASA Nebula (Jesse Andrews)
• Library of Congress (@acdha, @edsu, @dchud)

Education

• University of Texas (Gary Wilson)
• Nazareth College (@StevenLukeSmith / fvox13)
• University of Missouri (Columbia MIssourian & The Maneater)

Media, news

• Guardian (Simon Willison?)
• Cox Media (Chris Heisel)
• Onion (Tom Tobin, Michael Greer) - interview ​http://djangositeoftheweek.com/av-club/
• Everyblock (Adrian Holovaty, Joseph Kocherhans)
• ​http://projects.washingtonpost.com (Ryan O'Neil, Jackie Kazil)
• USA Today (@kjam)
• ​Chicago Tribune ( Christopher Groskopf / @onyxfish )
• ​Zimbio (Bruce Martin, Danny Khatib)
• GlobalCom ( @gabrielfalcao )
• The Washington Times
• St. Petersburg Times
• Boston Globe
• New York Times Regional Media Group
• Congressional Quarterly Roll Call
• NPR
• LA Times
• California Watch
• Dallas Morning News

Big business

• LexisNexis ( Bryan Weingarten )
• Qualcomm (??? does anyone have a contact?)
• HP (Ned Batchelder)
• Cisco (​Brad MacDonald)
• ​Aviva PLC
• ​RAC

Games, Comics

• Mochimedia (Ericflo)
• Penny Arcade (???)
• ​Car Battle (@yezooz)

E-Commerce

• Cuker Interactive (​http://cukerinteractive.com, our product is Web Cube CMS ​http://webcubecms.com)
• Baby and Kids Company (​http://babyandkidscompany.com/)

Sports

• ​Pick Score (@yezooz)

VoIP

• ​Altitude Software vBox, Asterisk PBX management (rui.coelho@…)

Others, not sure

• ​http://politifact.com/ ( Matt Waite/@mattwaite , @jeremybowers )
• Mahalo (Jeff Ammons, Jacob Burch)
  • Working on case study as of 10 Sept 2010.
  • Draft shared w/ JDunck, DGreenfeld, AMcKay as of 16 Sept; feedback due by Sept 24.

• Sunlight Labs (James Turk)
• Compete.com (@roblacy)
• Nasuni ( Jesse Noller )
  • ​http://www.nasuni.com/news/nasuni-blog/thanks-to-django/
  • ​http://www.nasuni.com/news/nasuni-blog/thanks-to-the-supporting-cast/
• Fluther.com - Q&A website with a learning question matching algorithm and a proxied, federated product with some interesting middleware (Tim Trueman/@timtrueman)
• ​Pitchfork (@blackbrrr / @seanbrant)
• SimpleGeo (Mike Malone, Joe Stump)
• Urban Airship ( Michael Richardson , Adam Lowry )
• ​http://www.mediweightloss.com (Eric Brown, eric@…, interview/case study inquiries welcome)
• ​Mobile Vikings, a Belgian MVNO (Gert Van Gool, @gvangool, gert@…)

Should mine ​http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=750142

Consultancies as leads to testimonials from their clients? (Lincoln Loop, Caktus, etc.)

• Lincoln Loop - We Like Small ( Paul Solomon )
  • JDunck - contacted 20 Sept 2010.
• Interaction Consortium - NSW AU Art Gallery (Greg Turner)