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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.