I'm working on a number of projects currently, both hardware and software.
The most complete and frequently mentioned one on my site is Things I Love. This is a wishlist site for creating wishlists which link to anywhere you like on the internet. In fact you don't even have to have a link.
Originally I had intended to just use it for my own use, but then my friend Linette asked me if I'd make it available to my friends as well, as she certainly was interested in using it. So after a quick rewrite, grabbing a domain and putting together a design for the site, I put it up and told everyone I knew about it. Who then told their friends, who told their friends and so on etc... Now it seems that all manner of folk are using it, which is very pleasing.
Another website I'm working on is for Isles of Darkness. Which is an aid/tool/whatever for the IoD LARPing organisation to manage their players and games and other bits and bobs.
I'm also putting together a website for my friend Jennifer A McGowan who is a poet and has a new book out (soon?) called Life in Captivity.
The Gathering was a talker I ran as a bit of a social experiment. Unlike most talkers, there isn't anyone in charge. Instead, people chatting in a particular group (or room) are given the power to vote to boot someone out if they're causing trouble. These days with the advent of Instant Messaging the talker fad has kinda died out and the recent newbies to the internet don't appear to be interested. Foolishly though, I'm still working on the code sometimes.
Another social experiment I worked on was a lovemap for the people who nominally form the social group we all refer to around here as IFIS. Technically IFIS is a student society at RHUL but there are a great many of us ex-students who still are around and some of us even still join the society.
Anyway, the lovemap is a way of showing how the people around here know each other in the sense of romantic (or lusty) entanglements. It shows, for example, who is dating who. Except it doesn't. Because people are generally not keen on stating that they've snogged everyone on the planet, I had to get a little creative and make it all anonymous. So instead the lovemap you get to see is a collection of unlabeled black blobs with coloured lines between them.
It is possible to work out who is who on it, but only if you know things already. Because it requires both parties to log in before a link will appear on the map, it's not really possible to experiment either. I've written a little FAQ to explain exactly how it all works.
In a semi-related vein, I'm also interested in looking at the social dynamics of the people I know. I've long since come to the realisation that I'm part of a modern urban tribe. As an experiment, I've decided to see just what "shape" the tribe looks like by trying to plot it visually. Which is where the tribal map gizmo comes in. It's using as it's data source, LiveJournal, cos a lot of people I know are on it and it provides a handy way to get a list of people who people know. It then gets people to categorise how "within" their tribe they think people are and tries to draw that visually. So far it's proving to be very complicated to work out how to represent the data.