Monthly Archives: May 2008

Get Long, Luscious Hair … For Your WeeMee.

The other day I logged into MSN and decided I wanted to change the look and feel of my WeeMee. You may be asking what a WeeMee is, and the simple answer is that it’s an avatar-like character for MSN Messenger. Many people in our …

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Webkinz: Little Chicken in a Big [Virtual] World

Online worlds have attracted big business. Marketing and advertising inside virtual worlds has taken on new and innovative strategies, as more and more companies are establishing an interactive presence “in world.” The Engauge Digital Behavioral Research Department loves to conduct research in a range of …

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IU Standard Terms List: 20 Years and Going Strong

Back in the 1980′s my beloved colleagues and mentors at Indiana University got me involved in a little project that is still going strong and finding a lot of value: The IU Technology Services “Standard Terms List” (insider nod: The use of “STL” is an …

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Why Groovy … or JRuby, Jython, Scala, Javascript, or Anything Else?

Recently, I attended the No Fluff Just Stuff Atlanta Software Symposium. One of the big buzz terms there was “dynamic languages.” For those of you who don’t have a Computer Science degree, a dynamic language is a programming language which performs many functions at runtime …

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Who Can Enjoy a 3-Day Weekend the Right Way? Behavioral Research Can-Can!

By Lindsey Long As many Engaugers are aware, here in the Behavioral Research Department we have been up to our ears in research work lately. Early mornings, late evenings, lots of coffee, approaching deadlines, and no end of billable hours in sight. All this Discovery …

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