Mobile Social Network Applications

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Multispan is currently working with Qwigie Games, Inc. to develop social-network applications that inspire people to compare and compete with their friends in the creation of Quick Pick® fantasy-sports teams (like football, basketball, NASCAR, etc.).  Major sponsors and charitable organizations have expressed an interest in funding these contests for promotional and fund raising purposes.  The system architecture inolves a PHP-based Applications Programming Interface (API) that returns either XML or JSON data.

See http://qwigie.com

Click on the Quick Pick® Play Now area in the bottom right corner of this page to view an example of the mobile application.  To go directly to the mobile application in a mobile web browser view NASCAR rosters, please enter:

http://qpengine.com/nascar

Loan-It-Forward Tracking (LIFT) System

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Multispan is now focusing on innovative ways for businesses and individuals to provide loans, gifts, and referrals to one another.   The Loan-It-Forward Tracking(LIFT) System empowers members to build personal and business relationships based on faith, hope, and charity and create business activity even during economically challenging times by compassionately loaning products and services to each other in a charitable and accountable manner.  Significant inspiration has been felt many times.  In particular, during the research and exploration phase to help barter systems protect the value of trade units, the software engineers realized that the now patent-pending solution to the problem can be solved in the network flow calculations that Dr. Erickson worked on during his doctoral studies at Stanford University.

Recently, we have realized that a variation of the Loan-It-Forward Trade (LIFT) System, called  the  Give-It-Forward Tithe (GIFT) System empowers charitable institutions with the ability to encourage people to give gifts and loans to one another and donate a tithe to the charitable organization.

See http://giftracking.com

Streaming and Controllable Video Training System

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Multispan developed innovative training and communications tools for surgeons to provide online live and pre-recorded video training using FLEX 3, PHP, mySQL, and Flash Media Server (FMS).  Surgeons associated with major medical manufacturing companies have used this system to conduct on-line round tables and live surgery broadcasts into trade show booths.    These round tables also allow over 100 surgeons to interactively control and discuss a surgical training video displayed in a web browser.

One significant moment of inspiration occurred just hours before a version of the software was to be deployed but the video was not synching up properly, so the up to 100 observers would all be watching video at different starting points.  After a moment of prayer, a systems engineer received direct inspiration to simply switch two sections of code.  One section of code sent out a message all 100 listeners to ‘seek’ for a particular position in the video clip and the second section of code caused all the videos to “play”.  Even though this sequence (“seek” then “play”)  seemed logical, it failed, but when switched (“play” then “seek”)  it worked.  This revelation was received just hours before we successfully launched that version of the application.

See www.viprt.com

Use ‘demo’ for Company code, select top channel, and use ‘demo’ for the Administration code.

Genealogical Family Tree

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Multispan worked with a team of programmers using FLEX 3 to develop a graphical representations of genealogical family trees

See www.genetree.com.

Register, enter in a few family members and then observe the “graphical tree” developed with the help of Multispan.

Action Sports United

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Working with a son of one of the owners, Multispan developed a website to help young boys and girls have organized safety and skill development programs and public skate parks.

See www.ActionSportsUnited.com

Click on the Video button to watch Reuel Erickson be the first BMX dirt bike rider to land a DOUBLE BACK FLIP.