by Jake McKee on 21 May, 2008 - 6 comments

My friend Patrick has written a great book about managing online forum communities. I’ve talked about him and his book quite a bit lately so I wanted to grab him for a 10 questions interview. You can find out more about the book at his site or his blog. You can also see him in […]

by Jake McKee on 12 Mar, 2008 - 0 comments

A couple years back, I had the pleasure of working on a project with Alaina Browne when she was with Mule Design. It was a lot of fun, so you can imagine how pleased I was to find out that she was married to my internet friend, Anil Dash. It’s a small damn world in […]

by Jake McKee on 18 Feb, 2008 - 2 comments

If you haven’t seen the (relatively) new site, The Point take a swing by. The concept is extremely interesting (more on that below), but I’ve been blown away by the way they’ve designed the site. A social designer like myself gets all giddy when feature after hoped-for feature is there, creating a fantastic user experience. […]

by Jake McKee on 02 Jan, 2008 - 0 comments

I’ve been having a great time on a new(ish) site, Why08.org where you can identify yourself with a candidate and engage in some rousing political discussion surrounding that choice. The site is fun, and designed very smart. Before the holiday break, I exchanged emails with site creator Michael Boukhim and, of course, had to hit […]

by Jake McKee on 18 Dec, 2007 - 0 comments

Time to continue the ongoing series of 10 Question interviews with great services and sites that have community as a strong component. We have several more interviews in the works, but next up we chat with David Nelsen of TalkShoe.com! 1. What is TalkShoe? www.TalkShoe.com is a website where you can talk (and text) live […]

by Jake McKee on 05 Nov, 2007 - 1 comment

I’ve been playing with, and fascinated by the new travel site, TripIt.com for a while now. It’s helping me wrangle my large collection of travel itineraries, mostly via email (rather than mass input in a Web form). I reached out to Gregg Brockway, co-founder and president of TripIt and he was nice enough to answer […]