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Mobile app: WHEREAMI

WHEREAMI is a mobile application that accepts a username as input, searches public profiles on various location-aware services, and returns the user’s last known location via text message. Just text 41411 with whereami <username>, wh...


Firefox Extension: Open Tab Count 1.0

How many tabs do you have open in your browser right now? Did you have to count manually? Are you using Firefox? Try the open tab count extension! I created this extension because I wanted to explore memory management in browser tabs, and I was cu...


What am I like? How about you?

My Path 101 Personality Quiz Traits Highest Scoring Traits Love of Thinking Relativism Compartmentalization Lowest Scoring Traits Concreteness Idealism Emotion Like-minded people work in: Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals Medical...


Welcome

Hello, and welcome to everyone who found this site via Torley’s story on the Second Life blog! I lead the Immersive Media Lab at J&W University. Several of our projects have utilized Second Life, including Virtual Morocco (cultural exch...


Welcome

Hello, and welcome to everyone who found this site via Torley’s story on the Second Life blog! I lead the Immersive Media Lab at J&W University. Several of our projects have utilized Second Life, including Virtual Morocco (cultural excha...


Ignite Boston 3 -- Next Week

Sponsored by:        The third Ignite Boston will be next week - Thursday, May 29, from 6 to 10pm at Tommy Doyle's in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA. There is no cover charge or any sort of fee. The event...


Ignite Boston 3

The third Ignite Boston will be on Thursday, May 29, from 6 to 10pm at Tommy Doyle's in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA. This time, we're using two floors at Tommy Doyle's, so the acoustics will be better than our first event there. From 6-6:45 p...


Ignite Boston 3

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR. The third Ignite Boston will be on Thursday, May 29, from 6 to 10pm at Tommy Doyle's in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA. This time, we're using two floors at Tommy Doyle's, so the acoustics will be better than o...


InfoFez: Information-based Navigation in Second Life

The new version of the InfoFez launches on April 7th… be there!


Script Me! an LSL Generator

Second Life scripting can be challenging for non-programmers.


The Essential Elements of Geek Culture (March, 2008)

I was talking to my web programming seminar about regular expressions and made an allusion to the xkcd comic on that topic. Unfortunately, none of them had seen it, probably because none of them were familiar with xkcd. Students should become fami...


The Essential Elements of Geek Culture (March, 2008)

I was talking to my web programming seminar about regular expressions and made an allusion to the xkcd comic on that topic. Unfortunately, none of them had seen it, probably because none of them were familiar with xkcd. Students should become fami...


The Essential Elements of Geek Culture (March, 2008)

I was talking to my web programming seminar about regular expressions and made an allusion to the xkcd comic on that topic. Unfortunately, none of them had seen it, probably because none of them were familiar with xkcd. Students should become fami...


LSL: Notecard Selector

One of my friendly librarian colleagues in SL asked if I had a script to generate dialogs and allow users to select notecards handy. I didn’t, so I coded it up. It seems like it could be useful to others, so here you go: This script is in LS...


LSL: Notecard Selector

One of my friendly librarian colleagues in SL asked if I had a script to generate dialogs and allow users to select notecards handy. I didn’t, so I coded it up. It seems like it could be useful to others, so here you go: This script is in LS...


LSL: Notecard Selector

One of my friendly librarian colleagues in SL asked if I had a script to generate dialogs and allow users to select notecards handy. I didn’t, so I coded it up. It seems like it could be useful to others, so here you go: This script is in LS...