How Bad Hires Can Hurt Your Business
What’s worse – hiring the wrong person or not hiring anyone at all?
WhitePages.com Searching For You
WhitePages.com has launched a new people search application that will allow users to find information they need on a specific individual. The search will now include Web results from providers and an email database of verified addresses.
Beta Testing Amazon Clickriver
I got my invite to beta test Clickriver today. Yippie. I already set up my account, so lets see how long it takes Amazon to start showing my ads for things like my name and search engine optimization.
Long Tail PR
In his post, “Long Tail PR: how to do publicity without a press release (or the press),” Chris Anderson asks “But what of the Long Tail of media–all those new influentials, from the micromedia of Techcrunch and Gizmodo to individual bloggers?
Wikio Receives $5.3 Million In Funding
Wikio, which is basically a European version of Digg (more on that later), just received a considerable amount of funding to continue its growth. Reports indicate that Lightspeed Venture Partners and Gemini Israel Funds have endowed the company with $5.3 million.
Simply Hired Links Blogs To Jobs
The release of the Job-a-matic tool will give bloggers and website publishers the option to add job listings to their sites, and to profit from them too.
Google Groups Goes Socializing
If your invitation to Google’s after-hours party at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos somehow got lost in the mail, you can use that time to explore the newly updated Google Groups service.
How Bluetooth Features Can Change What You Do
Bluetooth is the name for an emerging technology that uses short-range radio links instead of cables to connect portable electronic devices.
V7N is Brokering Contextual Links
It’s only been a few days since John Scott and Jeff Behrendt opened the new V7N contextual links to publishers and already the frenzy has begun with bloggers unable to sign up fast enough for the program.
Free Software – Should it Be Free?
By now, you’ve probably heard about or read Mark Shuttleworth’s view on keeping free software free. Matt Asay has a take on Mark’s post here.