Scott Rafer of winksite and Luke Brynley-Jones of e-tribes are today's guest
bloggers on
cybersoc.com. Scott writes primarily about AJAX - the way that XML and API's
(think google
maps or flickr mash-ups) are changing the web. Luke gives a personal account of
his
experiences launching a new blogging platform.

Scott Rafer: http://www.cybersoc.com/2006/03/guest_blogger_s.html

Scott Rafer is CEO of WINKsite.com and advisor to iUpload, Dogster, MyBlogLog,
Delight,
Digital Railroad and a couple other exploiters of the X in AJAX. Scott's been
helping
Internet users find "What's Right Now!" since 1998. He was most recently CEO of
Feedster,
the blog search engine and advertising network. Before Feedster, Scott
co-founded
WiFinder, the Wi-Fi hotspot directory; Fresher Information, a real-time search
engine; and
FotoNation, a creator of connected photography solutions. Before the dotcom
boom, Rafer
led the Internet products group at Kodak Hollywood, worked in investment banking
at
Needham & Company, and graduated from the Management of Technology program at
UPenn. You can find Scott's blog at http://rafer.wirelessink.com.

Luke Brynley-Jones: http://www.cybersoc.com/2006/03/guest_blogger_l_1.html

An online community consultant by trade, Luke Brynley-Jones has advised many of
the
UK's largest non-profits about their online communications. Part of the team
behind
etribes, he recently oversaw the launch of etribes Life - their new personal
publishing
service. This is Luke's personal view of the world behind the scenes of a social
software
start-up...