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Time's Magazine best inventions of 2008

Time's Magazine best inventions of 2008

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Announcing Applications on LinkedIn

Linkedin News article

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Announcing Applications on LinkedIn

Reid Hoffman Oct 28, 2008

Hi Everyone. I'm writing today to announce the launch of LinkedIn's applications platform that will enable over 30 million professionals on LinkedIn to communicate, collaborate, and share information even better than before.

This initial roll out features productivity applications that range from gathering information… Continue

Added by 01. Lonnie McRorey on October 31, 2008 at 11:29am — No Comments

US tech jobs increase, but growth slowing

US tech jobs increase, but growth slowing

The most significant growth occurred in engineering and tech services, which added 50,000 jobs, a 3.1% rise, according to data from the AeA.

By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News -- Electronic News, 10/15/2008

The United States tech industry continued to add jobs in the first seven months of the year, but at a slower rate than the same period in 2007.

According to a report released today from the AeA based on… Continue

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Best Cities to work in

The Lone Star State shines brilliantly in a list of the best places to work in the U.S. when some economists peer into their crystal balls for 2008.

Austin, Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio all rank high on the latest forecast data from Moody's (nyse: MCO - news - people ) Economy.com. McAllen, Texas, is expected to have the highest job growth rate, as its leisure and hospitality, educational and health services and commercial construction jobs flourish.

"While the… Continue

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LinkedIn Gets $22.7 Million Of Investment Capital

LinkedIn Gets $22.7 Million Of Investment Capital

MOUNTAIN VIEW (AP) ― LinkedIn Corp. has raised an additional $22.7 million to help insulate the steadily growing online business network from the economic storm and provide more financial flexibility.

The investment announced Thursday was made by one of LinkedIn's long-time backers, Bessemer Venture Partners, and three newcomers -- the venture arm of business software maker SAP AG, banker Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and The… Continue

Added by 01. Lonnie McRorey on October 27, 2008 at 10:14am — 3 Comments

Thirty-three percent of U.S. companies allow employees to telecommute

By MICHELLE GOODMAN

June 19, 2008

This year's skyrocketing gas prices are enough to make even the most diehard office suck-ups fantasize about finding a job that lets them telecommute. But is finding a new job that lets you work from home a realistic goal or just a pipe dream?

Thirty-three percent of U.S. companies allow employees to telecommute on a part-time basis, while 21 percent allow it full-time, according to the Society for Human Resource… Continue

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"Sea of candidates"

There's a reason people associate used-car salesmen with charlatans. Cars went from a luxury to an absolute necessity, and with the proliferation of models, brands and personalization of automobiles, who's to know if the one you're getting is better or worse than an equally priced one next door?

Similarly, Software Professionals have gone from targeting their careers to sophisticated design of top secret military programs or higher education applications to being requested for pretty… Continue

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If I Were Running Google...

If I Were Running Google...

by Aaron Goldman , Wednesday, August 6, 2008

MY LAST INSTALLMENT OF Searchery Rhymes had me wishing Sergey Pagerhoffer Schmidt were my name too. Over the last couple weeks, I've been living out that fantasy -- strictly in my head, of course -- and came up with a Top 10 list of things I'd do if I were running Google. And, since we're dreaming here, I'm assuming money's not an issue -- although, with a $145 billion market cap, it's really not much of… Continue

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2008 VOIP PBX Comparison guide (Free white paper) PDF

Great guide to help you choose the best VOIP-PBX solution for your business.

Added by 01. Lonnie McRorey on July 23, 2008 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

Why You Should Include HTML Text In Your Emails

Why You Should Include HTML Text In Your Emails

by Aaron Smith , Thursday, July 17, 2008

I WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION that most email marketers were well aware of the advantages of including HTML text - also known as system text - as opposed to graphical text in their messages. But I am still frequently surprised to see emails in my inbox from well-established players that rely almost exclusively on images to convey the main point of the message.

Alas, long gone are the… Continue

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Lack of technical talent slowing clean-tech industry

Lack of technical talent slowing clean-tech industry

Posted by Martin LaMonica

The much-heralded clean-tech revolution needs a bigger army.

The absence of technical and managerial talent in the clean energy sector is putting a strain on the development of the industry, a survey finds.

Research firm New Energy Finance and recruiting firm Heidrick & Struggles queried 75 executives in clean energy companies from around the world and found that the lack of… Continue

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Sign up for contingency work! http://www.dayak.com/?affiliate_id=168

http://www.dayak.com/?affiliate_id=168

Here is a little more info on the company. I would say that the biggest way that they are different from Bounty Jobs is that they are an open marketplace where recruiters do not need to be invited to register to use their site where the opposite is true with Bounty Jobs. Also, they give recruiters the ability to post split jobs. Bounty Jobs does not have this feature. Last, Dayak does not market themselves to companies as a vendor… Continue

Added by 01. Lonnie McRorey on June 26, 2008 at 5:20pm — 2 Comments

Relaxing the rules on Web site naming

(CNN) -- A group charged with overseeing the development of the Internet voted Thursday to relax the rules on Web site naming conventions -- potentially triggering a virtual domain name gold rush to rival the dotcom boom of the late 1990s.

Paul Twomey is president and CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.

Paul Twomey is president and CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.

At a meeting in Paris Thursday, the board of… Continue

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More Execs Bolt Yahoo, Reorganization Expected

More Execs Bolt Yahoo, Reorganization Expected

by Mark Walsh, Friday, Jun 20, 2008 7:00 AM ET

Brad Garlinghouse of YahooBrad Garlinghouse, who led Yahoo's communications and communities group and authored the infamous "Peanut Butter Manifesto" that critiqued the company's business strategy, is among the latest to exit the Web portal. In addition to Garlinghouse, two more executives have decided to jump ship, according to reports published Thursday by two blogs--AllThingsD and… Continue

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Botox Season on the Web- Facebook-Myspace-Linkedin

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Botox Season on the Web

By David Berkowitz

Earlier this week on "The Daily Show," Larry Wilmore reported on how Beverly Hills is coping with today's economic hardships, where women are waiting longer to get their Botox refills and plastic surgeons are taking on reconstructive surgery cases just to pay their golf dues.

That's hardly the case in digital media, where the plastic surgeons of the Web have their hands full. It seems like every… Continue

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10 most annoying programs on the Internet

Gallery: 10 most annoying programs on the Internet

by Andy Smith | 05-22-08

Tags: Misery, Pit, Internet, Andy Smith, applications

The Internet has brought us many joys. It's rewritten the rules of business and pleasure.

And pain. For it allows what may have seemed like bright ideas at the time ('let's use it to make sure our customers have the latest software', for example) to turn into a stinking pit of misery — usually, but by no means always, after… Continue

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A Screenshot: Google's Android comes to life

Screenshots: Google's Android comes to life

by CNET News.com | 05-29-08

Google demonstrated its Android mobile-phone software Wednesday at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco. The project, under development by Google and a number of partners in the Open Handset Alliance, is due to ship as open-source software when the first Android phones go on sale later this year. This is a view of the home screen, demonstrated by Steve Horowitz, Android's engineering… Continue

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Gaining Exposure By Giving The People What They Want

Gaining Exposure By Giving The People What They Want

by Chris Young , Tuesday, June 3, 2008

THERE IS A FAMOUS TINSELTOWN quote often attributed to comedian Red Skeleton about the well-attended 1958 funeral of Harry Cohn, the tyrant president of Columbia Pictures.

Skeleton said "Give the people what they want to see and they'll come out for it."

The sentiment is also an axiom for most businesses. When you provide a quality product or service that people… Continue

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Microsoft Shows Its Hand

Microsoft Shows Its Hand

by Steve Baldwin , Monday, June 2, 2008

IT'S BEEN CALLED A STUNT, a desperate move, and "little more than a gimmick." It's been derided as a failed idea already tried by Amazon's A9, iWon, and other rebate-hawking sites that never gained traction. It is, of course, Microsoft's Live Search Cash Back, the first of what promises to be a series of "disruptive" initiatives designed to derail Google's overwhelming, yet ever-growing dominance in search (now… Continue

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Microsoft Wins Default Search Space On HP Computers

By Tameka Kee , June 2, 2008

Microsoft Wins Default Search Space On HP Computers

Search Engine Land

While the blogosphere focused on Microsoft's cashback deal, the software giant was plugging away at another, behind-the-scenes deal that would secure it even more search market share. It's a deal with HP for Live Search to be packaged as the default engine with all new computers--and Microsoft wrestled the agreement away from Yahoo.

Starting January 2009, new HP… Continue

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