On the Radar: Friday, November 30th, 2007

Josh Lowensohn posts on Webware:

Google's RSS reader...got some handy updates last night. The most interesting of the bunch is a new recommendations system that will suggest feeds you might enjoy based on two things:

1. Feeds you're already subscribed to in Google Reader

2. Your Google Web history, including things you've…

On the Radar: Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Pamela Slim who writes the Escape from Cubicle Nation blog answers a question posed on the NYT's Shifting Careers column:

A savvy reader pointed out that on the same day that I linked to a smart post by Pamela Slim, an entrepreneur/blogger/consultant, she blogged…

On the Radar: Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

EVERYTHING 2.0 posts a list of over 150 ways to recruit or book better people, manage your career, or find jobs & gigs more efficiently & effectively.

Check it out...

On the Radar: Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

According to new browser's site:

The web, and the way people engage online, has evolved dramatically over the past decade. But web browsers - the application that fundamentally enables online experiences and services across ones' connected life - have not kept pace.

I guess the same could be said for applicant tracking systems.…

On the Radar: Monday, November 26th, 2007

MarketingShift notes:

According to Nielsen NetRatings MySpace had more unique users in October than the other social nets, but LinkedIn grew the fastest:

BizReport curiously reports that Facebook had the highest growth rate at 125%, so I guess they don't consider LinkedIn in the same category even though it grew by 189…

On the Radar: Monday, November 19th, 2007

Misha Cornes writes on Organic's blog:

This week Shane Ginsberg and I spoke at Organic's HR offsite in beautiful Sonoma County. The interactive industry is once again experiencing a major hiring crunch, and we talked about ways to use social media to reach great…

On the Radar: Friday, November 16th, 2007

It is what it says it is - an email address that's good for 10 minutes!

Why would you use this? Maybe you want to sign up for a site which requires that you provide an e-mail address to send a validation e-mail to. And maybe you don't want to give up your real e-mail address and end up on a bunch of spam lists.…

On the Radar: Thursday, November 15th, 2007

TugLink.com launches with this to say about why:

TugLink.com is an online peer-to-peer job search community where members help each other land interviews for desired jobs. The name TugLink is meant to imply that company insiders help candidates get “linked” with jobs they desire by giving them a “tug”,…

On the Radar: Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

According to BlogRush:

BlogRush is a free service that was created to help bloggers solve their #1 need: More Readers For Their Blog.

By adding the BlogRush Widget to a blog, a blogger can get instant distribution for their latest blog post titles across a network of related…

On the Radar: Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Courtsesy of LinkedIn and Recruiting Trends:

If you ever wanted to find out from the pros how to uncover hard to find candidates, you couldn't assemble a better team than this:

Chris Murdock, Executive Sourcer,…

On the Radar: Monday, November 12th, 2007

From our friends at JobDig, LinkUp:

Our Goal - To Build The Best Job Site On The Web

LinkUp is a leading job search engine that exposes the hidden job market. We conveniently connect you with real jobs from real…

On the Radar: Friday, November 9th, 2007

HRLive regularly updates who is laying off workers and where its happening. The searchable database lets you customoze the search and gives you an estimate of the number of people affected.

Hardly, new -- HRLive been around for years -- the tool from JWT is worth revisiting if you want the most active of active candidates to keep you…

On the Radar: Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Harrison Hoffman on Webware:

For those who are not familiar with Spotplex, it offers up a snippet of code that blog owners can install on their site. That snippet does two things. First, it provides information about its traffic to the blog owner, much like…

On the Radar: Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

For those who want to take screening and assessment to a new level, check out the SimilarMinds personality engine.

Once you've determined that you are like Mahatma Gandhi or Albert Einstein or Greta Garbo you can connect with similar "minds" around the globe.

Enjoy...

On the Radar: Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Things that make you go "Hmmm..."

disposableWebPage.com - Disposable Web Page is now here! You can create a disposable web page with as little effort as a few key strokes and start right away at filling up the page with the content you want.

Disposable web page offers you the…

On the Radar: Monday, November 5th, 2007

Erika Morphy writes on TechNewsWorld:

Yahoo may be too late to the social networking game to attract anything like the 50 million members who call Facebook home or the 200 million nestled on MySpace. Still, the Internet portal…