Jon Loyens' Homepage

About

Hello, welcome to my homepage. There's not a lot to see here but it's a good aggregation of the things I've done and the things I'm working on. I'm currently the Director of Bazaarvoice Labs and Developer Platform, the product innovation and pilot group at Bazaarvoice in Austin, TX. Previously, I was the CTO of a business and product innovation consultancy called Thinktiv. I also take a limited number of freelance jobs as time permits. Please contact me via email if you're interested in working with me.

Experiments and Projects

When I find time, I'll put together small projects or experiments (usually Javascript or Django based). I'll post the results here whenever I get a chance and usually write about them via twitter:

• Friend Interest Finder - A (Chrome or Safari only) tool that will search all your FB friends likes and interests
• Django TwitterVoice - A pluggable Django application using the Twitter API that allows for the creation of groups of Twitter users. The application collates the status entries from the group members and also creates an 'terms of interest page'. The interest page is a live search for defined terms of interest for the group across the Twitter-sphere. You can see an example of this working at twitter.bazaarvoice.com

Contacts

Here are the various ways to contact me:

• Email: jon dot loyens at gm@il dot com
• Github
• Tumblr blog
• Linked in
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Django People

More Stuff

Here are links to some things I like or am involved in:

• Django
• jQuery
• Ajaxian
• TechCrunch
• My Band