About: Rob
Rob is Kachingle's QA Engineer and Customer Support lead. His background is in film journalism. He spent 10 years writing film reviews and interviews for print, web and radio before taking a "3-month hiatus" that led to a new career as a QA and UX engineer, building from his critical-scrutiny skills and experience designing and managing the film sections of several client websites. He's previously worked for Xoom.com and Wine.com, and on other small web projects and start-ups. Originally from Boulder, Colorado, Rob has lived in Oakland, California for 20 years and also works part-time as a freelance editor. See Rob's kachingling
Recent Posts by Rob
Today we updated the KachingleX version of the Kachingle Medallion so that it opens the Overlay (full of kachingling options and info about a site’s Kachinglers) when you click the Medallion Bar, rather than when you just mouse over the bar. (Yeah, the Overlay got in the way from time to time.) The bar nowContinue Reading
Written on August 18, 2011 at 5:20 am
Categories: Kachingle
Tonight we pushed out a Kachingle update with some new features we’re really excited about, not the least of which is a much-improved, more inviting version of the Medallion Overlay seen by people who are not yet Kachinglers. The new design displays the avatars for the site’s top Kachinglers, shows off real contributions, includes aContinue Reading
Written on July 2, 2011 at 11:31 pm
Categories: Kachingle
Kachingle founder Cynthia Typaldos has been traveling in Germany and Austria this week, and has been interviewed by several blogger and journalists while meeting with Site Owners and others in what has become a booming market for the concept of using social cents to support your favorite content.