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WebBiographies.com

I clicked on an ad from WhatIfSports.com — despite the ugly look and broken code — and wound up at WebBiographies.com. This is a combination personal wiki and social networking site, and a site that probably needs a few dozen HCI people. I signed up with my own name to poke around, but then I had a better idea.

A few years ago, one of the blogs I started was about Max Powers, a thirty-something superhero just trying to make ends meet. The content is saved in a database somewhere, waiting for me to revive it. That might happen this summer, but Max seems like a good beta tester for this bio site. Password: super.

By Kevin Makice

A Ph.D student in informatics at Indiana University, Kevin is rich in spirit. He wrestles and reads with his kids, does a hilarious Christian Slater imitation and lights up his wife's days. He thinks deeply about many things, including but not limited to basketball, politics, microblogging, parenting, online communities, complex systems and design theory. He didn't, however, think up this profile.