Thom Nichols

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Here's a list of the more interesting open source projects that I've created or contributed to.

Marco Polo for Android

Visualize and receive notifications when your friends check-in near you!
See this article for more details.
Available on the Android Market.
Related:  a technical article on handling sensor input. 

The Marco Polo app for Facebook

Similar to the Android app, but as a Facebook app!  Uses HTML5 LocalStorage and location APIs, and the Google Maps and Facebook Javascript APIs.  The app is completely client-side, no requests are made from the app server.


QiRK: a QR code scavenger hunt game

QiRK is a cross-platform browser-based QR game that works for Android, iPhone, BlackBerry and WebOS.  See this article for more details.

This game has been deployed for two local events, the Providence Wooly Fair and Maker Faire Rhode Island!  Unfortunately there's not much to see at the above links since you can't actually play the game without being present at the event for which they were built.  The app also won't look terribly good in your browser since it's formatted for mobile screen size.  These both run on AppEngine.

GMarks: Google Bookmarks for Android

Open source Android client for Google Bookmarks.  The app has 38k downloads from the Android Market.

HTTPBuilder

A comprehensive HTTP & REST client API for the Groovy language. Open source.  Project page.

the Python Web Console

Run Python in your browser!  Share it with others and subscribe to the contributions feed.  Here's an interesting example that someone contributed.  The app itself runs on Google AppEngine.

SleekXMPP

Many improvements (including the concurrency overhaul) to SleekXMPP - an XMPP client in Python.

Bloog

Bloog is a heavily modified blog engine for AppEngine.  Article with details of enhancements.

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