Native Instinct creates the Visa Mobile Demo kit, enabling Visa to customize presentations by language, phone, and location. The demos launch at Mobile World Congress Barcelona to rave reviews.
Native Instinct launches Annie Chun's Web site with over 75 recipes. Yum!

Native Instinct launches their 4th Drupal site, this one for the Salesforce.com Foundation.
Flip Video sells their 2 millionth camera, many of them through the e-commerce Web site designed by Native Instinct. We also upgrade the front-end of FlipShare, Flip Video's online video sharing service.

Native Instinct designs and builds Salesforce.com's demo center. Kirk McInroy joins Native Instinct and we launch theflip.com Web site and later add e-commerce functionality.

Native Instinct designs and launches Virgin Charter, "the eBay of charter airlines".
Native Instinct designs Wells Fargo vSafe®, an online place to safely store your most important documents.

After years of working together, David Fortner, Lynda Greenberg, Jim Granger, Pete Howells, and Jeff Solari form Native Instinct and move into offices near South Park in San Francisco.
Native Instinct takes Cyworld, Korea's post popular Web site, and creates a version targeted towards the US audience.

Lynda, Jeff, and David redesign gymboree.com, focusing on cross-selling products. The major elements of the design are still in place five years later!
eyeTV (co-founded by Jim Granger) is acquired by El Gato of Los Gatos, CA.

Jim Granger, Lynda Greenberg, and David Fortner join Pete and Jeff on the Home Depot account. The team launches the appliances section of homedepot.com. Home Depot becomes the #2 online seller of appliances within the first month of launch. The team designs the Home Depot's online gift registry, garden club, and improved at-home services pages for Home Depot, increasing user registration by 400%.
We also are responsible for day-to-day production of the Home Depot Canada's Web site, homedepot.ca.

Pete Howells, Jeff Solari, and others redesign homedepot.com in eleven weeks. Home Depot's online sales in Q4 of 2003 are greater than all of their 2002 sales.

At eyeTV, Jim, Kirk, and Jeff design an online TV Programming Guide for Gist, and create promotional videos for Gensler Architecture and the Government Services Agency (GSA).

marchFirst goes bankrupt, but we are all long gone. Well, nearly all (sorry Lynda!).

At eyeTV, Jim and Kirk help design NHL Hockey Tonight broadcast graphics package for ESPN and ABC Sports.
USWeb/CKS changes its name to marchFirst.

At USWeb, Lynda Greenberg, Pete Howells, and Jeff Solari help design and launch Williams-Sonoma.com's first e-commerce site and gift registry

At Ikonic, Jeff and Pete design the Global Growth Network for the World Economic Forum. The idea is that it will become a social network for executives of growing businesses all over the world. Our test users ask, "What is a social network? and why would I want to share my information with all these people? No one will ever want to share this much information with their peers."
Jeff hires Lynda Greenberg as a Project Manager and Proposal Writer. "Welcome. By the way, that proposal is due tomorrow."
At eyeTV, Jim and Kirk help design ESPN's Major League baseball package.
Ikonic is acquired by USWeb Corporation, and Ikonic's offices become the corporate headquarters.

Jeff and Pete help launch Janus.com, the mutual fund company's first truly interactive Web site.
We also help to launch two new start-up Web sites, Looksmart.com and About.com (then poorly named, "theminingco.com").
We have conveniently forgotten the names of the ten other ".com" sites we worked on this year, because they later all became ".bombs".

At Ikonic, Pete Howells, Jeff Solari, Jim Granger, and Kirk McInroy design an interactive TV horse-betting application for a client. Project is shut down before launch due to legal reasons.
Jim Granger co-founds eyeTV, and is hired by Microsoft to help launch MSNBC. Gets involved in turf war between Bryant Gumble and Katie Couric.

At Ikonic, Pete Howells and Jeff Solari design the interface for an interactive programming guide and satellite TV services for News Corporation. The product is licensed to Sky Latin America and STAR TV Asia, available to two-thirds of the world's population (assuming they have electricity!).

At Ikonic, Jim Granger, Jeff Solari, Rohn Jay Miller and Kirk McInroy design TNX, The News Exchange, the world's first interactive television news-on-demand service, featuring content from Time Inc., CNN, NBC, ABC, and the Orlando Sentinel. It is deployed on Time Warner's Full Service Network in Orlando, Florida.
We also design AOL's start page. AOL executive tells Jeff: "Here is our high-speed 9600 baud phone number. It's still in trial, don't tell anyone about it."

Jim Granger is Creative Director, and Rohn Jay Miller is Executive Producer at Ikonic Interactive, a pioneering interactive services firm in San Francisco. After a 20 minute interview, Jim and Rohn Jay hire Jeff Solari as Project Manager. Jeff starts the next day, kicking off the creation of a demo for NEC's Multispin 3X CD-ROM player. That's right, it is three times faster than a regular CD-ROM player. Smokin! The demo wins a Silver Cindy (Cinema in Industry) award.