MetaBaby relaunches with TypeKey

If you've been kicking around the personal web for a few years, you might remember Metababy, a site where anybody could go and create a new page or edit the ones that were already posted. In these times when people know and use wikis frequently, this isn't that revolutionary, but for a site designed to enable personal expression years ago, it helped open a lot of eyes.

As with many similar efforts, MetaBaby succumbed over time to neglect and spam and offensive postings, but the new MetaBaby has just been relaunched with TypeKey support. There's still the opportunity to post offensive things, of course, but it's a much higher barrier for people who'd just want to automate their disruptive behaviors. And it's helped bring back one of the sites that influenced a lot of the early blogging community.

Of course, if you just want to make your own apps take advantage of TypeKey authentication, you can check out the Everything TypeKey wiki, where one of the newest additions is a Ruby client script to enable authentication. If you've got an application or site that's got a unique TypeKey implementation, you can add your own to the list.