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Wigglestick
Filed under: Mobile...Wigglestick is like del.icio.us except it is GPS navigation software designed for the urban pedestrian experience.
Other than a sub-genre of sports-focused applications, the vast majority of personal navigation systems are designed to just to provide driving directions. This locks traps users, who may not even be driving, into a strict Point A to Point B mentality. Wigglestick is a brilliant alternative navigator for a number of reasons. First of all, it has been optimized for the walking / wandering experience. Whether it is an open-air market in Mexico or the Freedom Trail in Boston, driving directions won't get you very far.
Secondly, Wigglestick is a social application. Imagine you are in New York, you find an awesome restaurant on a side street. You have a friend who will be in NYC in a month, and you want to pass this little gem onto them. How would you do that? With Wigglestick you simply 'tag' the location by saving its position and naming it appropriately. If your friend is on your Wigglestick buddy list, the geo-tag is instantly made available to them. That's it- quicker and easier than forwarding a website.
Pollgle
Filed under: Maps...Pollgle uses Google Maps to draw red states, blue states, and even purple states.
When I became interested in GISs (geographic information systems), I was shocked to learn how expensive and rather limiting the leading systems were. I wanted an elegant system that had full Web 2.0 integration and wouldn't break my budget. When I couldn't find anything to fit those requirements, I built my own.
Mob-GS
Filed under: Games...Pervasive gaming meets the MMO in the Real World.
Mob-GS is a prototyped system that grew out of my Masters Project at Georgia Tech, Pervasive Game Are Not A Genre! (They are a sub-genre).
While researching the field of pervasive gaming, which is a sub-genre of what I term "appropriative games," I quickly determined that the potential for single player and small group "pick-up" appropriative gaming had yet to be explored. My primary goal in developing this prototype was to maximize the affordances of the mobile phone while developing an encompassing single-player experience.
The Hot Party: Carpool Project
Filed under: Maps...An interactive Google Map for organizing carpools.
The Hot Party, a non-profit group in Madison, WI, wanted a Google Maps-based application that would assist in coordinating carpools for the employees of participating businesses.
In consideration of the fledgling non-profit's budgetary constraints, we decided to develop an advanced (functional) prototype of the application with the intent of revisiting the project if enough businesses showed interest in the service.
Camp Ojibwa
Filed under: Web Design...Camp Ojibwa wanted a flashy look, but didn't want Flash.
Camp Ojibwa for Boys had been doing what many non-web centric companies do- they had been building (and rebuilding) upon the basic architecture that had been established by their first website...in 1996. It was time for a complete redesign.
The challenge with the project was coming up with a flashy enough design (without using Flash) to please the client. After that, it was all downhill getting the 4 different CMSs to all play nice together and to augment all of them through custom PHP scripts.