Loren Norman is a web entrepreneur, a free culture advocate, a lover, a pacifist, a futurist, and your friend.
27 years old, Loren is a proud resident of Atlanta, GA, the biggest city in The South and (probably less known) a burgeoning technology hub. His programming language of choice is Ruby with the fabulous Ruby on Rails framework for rapid web development. He has recently become a Mac user and is showing no signs of ever going back.
Loren’s politics and his work ethic have all but merged. He firmly believes that in just looking at the world around, the amount of work to be done is astounding. The single most important thing a concerned person can do is to take up their tools and begin working to change the world. Every individual is capable of doing it. Few have the knowledge and the freedom to make a start. If voting for a cause is important, working for the cause is required.
Loren’s projects and experience are various and sundry. He has a rich history of video game playing and programming, web development, an investment club, and now a web marketing startup.
Snowcap Labs Web marketing at its finest! Offering market research, paid search, SEO services, and viral marketing campaigns, Snowcap Labs can help your company or startup get in front of the people who need you most… or save you big marketing dollars avoiding markets where you don’t belong! Never brave the fickle seas of web traffic alone again.
Ben-Hur Investments An investment club created by 9 enterprising twenty-somethings looking to learn about stock investing in fun and collaborative way. Dues are raised monthly, educational presentations are given by the club members, “guest investors” are invited to speak with the club, and there is typically a monthly stock presentation which leads to a vote and a purchase. Recently, Loren has begun posting his monthly stock picks as videos on YouTube to share the wealth with the world.
Camura.com A social community built around sharing cell-phone pictures live. With no publicity and no real desire to spread it virally, the site has grown to hundreds of users and thousands of lurkers in a few years.
Cingular Racing A “massively-single player” stock car racing simulation for cell phones on the Cingular (now AT&T) network. Revolutionary in many respects, Cingular Racing actually simulates a user’s races against other users’ information, allowing everyone who plays the game to add to the value of everyone else, without actually having to play together. The massively-single player idea was shamelessly stolen from Spore after Loren attended Will Wright’s demo unveiling the game for the first time.