Classlist

Dennis Crowley

Hi - my name is Dennis and I'm one of your co-hosts this semester. I've been working in the mobile + locative space since 2001 - Vindigo, ITP (PacManhattan, Big Brother Foosball), dodgeball, area/code (ConQwest, Plundr). I'm mainly interested in how technology can be used to facilitate serendipity and how game theory may be used to change how people experience the city. I'm an average PHP programmer, I'm okay at MySQL, I know zero about Java development, and I have an iPhone. Oh yeah, and I'm an ITP grad '04 and live in the East Village.

Michael Sharon

Hi, Michael here - I'm your other host this semester. I've been working in mobile since 2001 and in the mobile + social + locative space since 2003 with various projects and companies like - Socialight,Kamida, Identity, Superstar Tokyo, ConQwest and 23c Stories. My interests tend towards user experience, social discovery and filtering - figuring out how to make the truly interesting things around you emerge and using those bits of data to change your experience of places. I like Ruby, Python, Java (mostly J2ME) and PHP. I was going steady with MySQL, but have recently started an affair with PostgreSQL. I have far too many phones to list here, but my main setup these days consists of an iPhone + Nokia N95 8GB. I'm an '04 ITP grad, living in the Lower East Side.

Corey Menscher

I began working in the web industry after undergrad in 1995. I started out as a co-founder of the AdOne Classified Network, which brought small to medium sized newspaper classifieds sections online. After AdOne I worked for a small consulting company called TCB Data Systems, where I converted the Market Data Reporting system for the NYSE, Nasdaq, and other exchanges from a BBS-based system to the web. From there, I moved to Organic, Inc., where I helped create websites for Tommy Hilfiger, Sting's Brand New Day World Tour, and Bloomingdales...for which I created Organic's first-ever mobile WAP site. After the bubble burst and all but a few were laid off, I went back to TCB Data Systems, where I remained until ITP. My interests are mainly in interface engineering and user experience, but I have a wide variety of technical skills (PHP, Javascript, ColdFusion, .Net, SQL, server admin, network admin...). My personal blog is crackblur, and my del.icio.us, twitter and flickr names are all "crackhead". (No, I don't smoke crack...at least not literally.) I have an iPhone 3G, but still have a soft spot for my last phone, the Nokia E70.

Seanita Tolliver

What should I write about here? Well, I have no formal mobile development experience but last semester completed a human-centered design research project around mobile shopping experiences. I also took Chris Sung's DWD class last semester (and promptly forgot most of it--please don't tell him). In terms of programming--I usually kick, scream, claw my way through stuff until it works--but I'll try to be more poised and dignified this time(I'm a 2nd year after all--gotta represent). My background lies primarily in entertainment and creative media/product development--toys, animation and education. I began working as an information architect/user experience specialist this summer and will continue to do so this fall--that's the plan anyway. Did I leave anything out? Oh, I don't have a fancy phone yet--just a TMobile Rizer--was hoping to get an iPhone last week while in Louisiana but Hurricane Gustav convinced me otherwise.