Why this site?

I love travel. 

I love Photography

...and of course, I love my wife, Verena Schenk! 

But this site is dedicated to the first two subjects.  Verena has her own site ;-)

Where have you been?

I’ve been to all 7 continents, and still working on the various countries (up to 46 right now). Maybe I’ve been to your town!  Write me then!

Are you going to show us photos?

There’s a number of photos here, but unfortunately I didn't’ catch the shutter-bug until I had been a number of places.  So I don’t have pictures from everywhere I’ve been.  I only put photos on this site that I have personally taken (of course if I’m in the photo, I had to relinquish my camera to someone else!)

Who is James?

I work for ShopWiki.com, a shopping search engine that searches all eCommerce stores to find the best deals possible, and the biggest selection.  It uses crawler technology just like Google, but exclusive to shopping.  We started a site last year in the UK, ShopWiki.co.uk that finds all the stores in the UK for the broadest selection and the lowest prices.  We have about 200,000 stores for the US site, and about 30,000 for the UK site.  For France, we have ShopWiki.fr, as well as Germany and The Netherlands.  At the far end of the world ShopWiki.com.au services shoppers in Australia.  We just got ourselves incorporated in Ireland and look out for Spain soon!

Work profile James Keating

Are you really not going to say a word about Verena?

Of course I am... Verena & James got married!!!!  We tied the knot in New York City in September 2006.  Although that site was used for wedding planning, there are now links to photos from the wedding day and honeymoon.

You can read about our New York real estate experience living downtown at 63 Wall St that the NY Times reported about in Nov 2004:

Verena Schenk and James Keating in the NY Times

We don’t live there anymore :-)  We now live at The Beacon.  The website where I’m an administrator / moderate discussion for is the Capitol and Rialto and I was mentioned in the NY Times for the BeaconOwners website

You can also see Verena’s parents Hermann and Rita Schenk.  They rent out an apartment for people who want to visit the Rhoen in Germany.

Do you help out your friends?

Naturally!  One of my neighbors and friends launched a cool comic and had a nice debut in Amsterdam - Planet of the Baked and hopefully he’ll do well with it.

What’s with the Questions?

I’m always curious, and I’m always asking questions.  Sometimes to the annoyance of those around me.  I believe there’s always something to learn every day.