User:Keegan Rieks

My name is Keegan Rieks, and I write software. I live in Chanhassen, MN with my beautiful wife Christina Finke (nee Tewes) and my son Gabriel. I attended Mayer Lutheran High School in Mayer, MN, Concordia University in Seward, NE, and the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis, MN. What do I do?

Well first, there's my day job at AOL. There, I lead the technical development of the Emurse.com platform and the new AOL Shopping experience.

I also have a second "job": I manage the development of ScribeFire, the most popular blog editor for Firefox (and now Google Chrome).

I have a blog I run called Food In Real Life. There, I post pictures of microwave and fast-food meals and compare them to their advertisements.

In any remaining free time, I develop Firefox extensions for fun and profit. My favorites include Feed Sidebar and URL Fixer, but I also wrote (and continue to update) RSS Ticker, Slashdotter, Links Like This, Auto Auth, YouTube Comment Snob, OPML Support, TubeStop, and NSFW Detector. Additionally, I manage TwitterBar, although I am not the original author.

If there's any time left over, I dabble in WordPress themes and plugins. I've written three plugins: Feed Statistics, which gives you an overview of how many people are reading your blog via your RSS feed; Social Traffic Monitor, a plugin that tracks visitors from social news or bookmarking sites; and Formategory, a yet-to-be-released plugin that formats posts according to pre-defined templates based on their category. I also released my blog's design as a WordPress theme called Greencode.

I also do some consulting on the side. I've recently worked with Compete, Me.dium, SearchMe, NEC, and Indeed, plus some others that would prefer not to be named. (Not everyone wants to be associated with a workaholic.)

My last job was at Mahalo, where I was on the team that built Mahalo Answers and Mahalo 2.0.

Oh, and I used to work for Netscape, back when it was still called Netscape. Technically, I suppose that, along with Richard Klein, I was one of the last two Netscape employees, since we worked on the Netscape Navigator browser after Netscape.com was renamed to Propeller.

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