CommunityGuy, Author at Jake McKee

Blogging Rights

Another boon for blogging rights: OCEANPORT, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey school district will pay $117,500 to a student who was punished for creating

November 16, 2005

Hobbyist Auctions

While sites like eBay empower users to come together, and while the the Internet allows for hobbyists to connect in a large scale, the large

November 16, 2005

Typepad downtime update mail

There’s doing it right, then there’s doing it spot on perfect. I just got this mail from Six Apart yesterday morning. If you wonder how

November 15, 2005

Amazon adds tagging

Amazon adds tagging to their products… very very cool. Amazon describes it: What are tags ? Tags provide an easy way for you to

November 14, 2005

How to speak at conferences

Just a quick linksharing – How to speak at a tech conference. After having done so several times, I can agree with this article fully.

November 14, 2005

Interview with Flickr founder

I stumbled across this interview with Flickr founder, Eric Costello. My favorite bit is this: JJG: How did you know what features were connecting with

November 13, 2005

Collaborative story telling

Glypho – "A fun new way to read and write novels". Very cool concept… as soon as I get time, I’m going to see about

November 12, 2005

Another Amazing Amazon Addition

Amazon launches yet another extremely interesting concept: Mechanical Turk, as they subtitle it: Artificial Artifical Intelligence. Here’s how Amazon describes the concept: In 1769, Hungarian

November 12, 2005

Blogger help from the EFF

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published two interesting documents: EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers Whether you’re a newly minted blogger or a relative old-timer, you’ve

November 8, 2005

Blingo does it again!

I’ve talked about Blingo before – but for those of you who don’t remember: Blingo is a search engine with a twist. Each search on

November 7, 2005

Madonna loves tagging

Well, Madonna may not know what the hell "tagging" is, but her Web team sure does. On the new AJAX enabled madonna.com, they’ve launched a

November 4, 2005

Distance between want and fulfillment

I had a recent discussion with a report who was asking what Web 2.0 was all about, and why AJAX is always used in the

November 4, 2005