labs.active.com

the incubator

experiments in technology or markets
Jungle Screenshot

Jungle

Jungle is a dashboard for EC2 showing you the costs of all of your accounts and servers broken down by 'product.' Assign a server to a product and track its costs separately from others.

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Active Realtime

A live stream of user interaction happening right now on Active.com. You can also view top searches and popular links broken down by city and state.

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Inspiration

Active Inspiration pulls realtime streams of data from Twitter and Flickr, filtering for Active-theme posts: photos of running events, tweets about upcoming cycling events, etc.

graduates of labs

experiments that became the real deal
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Owl

Owl is a site monitoring tool that we open sourced. It gives us a quick look at our servers and their performance. It was built as a visual tool, being able to view the state of our network at a glance. It also features alerts via Twitter, Instant message, etc.

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Active Widgets

Embed a little piece of Active right on your own website. Upcoming events near your users, sports news and articles, and more to come!

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Active Ambassadors

Become an Active Ambassador and you'll have the opportunity to sign-up to receive free products and gear, and apply for ambassadorships sponsored by some of your favorite brands. This is your chance to be among the first to learn about and try new, healthy products that you, your family, friends and training partners can enjoy!

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Sports Studio Casting

Sports Studio Casting is the premier service for getting athletes into movies, television and commercials. If you've got the skills then we've got a role for you in our next big production!

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Active Ideas

Internal Tool We use this guy to track internal employee ideas and suggestions in improve our business and products.

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SOA Registry

Internal Tool The Registry is a directory of our internal services that developers can turn to for documentation and code examples.

open source software

Owl
A simple site monitoring tool written in Ruby on Rails
gattica
A Ruby gem for talking to the Google Analytics API.
postal
A Ruby gem for talking to the Lyris API.
encosion
A Ruby gem for talking to the Brightcove Media API.
gasohol
A Ruby library for talking to a Google Search Appliance server.
Active Network on Github

from the product dev blog

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