Gone are the days when we were in school and got two or more weeks off at holiday time to celebrate and recuperate. Some companies shut down for an entire week or more around Christmas — and their employees probably feel pretty lucky. If you’re a… Read More »
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Jonathan Lane worked side contract jobs as a web developer until he grew his business enough to freelance full-time. Then he moved to Mayne Island, a small island off of Canada’s west coast, a place he had visited as a child. Now he takes on… Read More »
While many employers ban Facebook, others are looking for ways to incorporate it into their businesses in a way that maintains security and productivity. That’s because social networking isn’t just about poking people; you can use it to work more effectively too. Now there’s a way… Read More »
The possibility that Amazon’s SimpleDB might be based on Erlang — a 20-year-old language that some programmers find weird — was nonetheless met with excitement in the programming world. Erlang may not be new, but it could offer one new way that concurrent programming can be… Read More »
Are there tasks you need to do on your computer, on the web, or on the phone that you’d rather not do yourself? Tasks that take you away from more satisfying or more lucrative projects? Maybe you need a virtual assistant — an administrative helper who… Read More »
PC World calls Vista the #1 biggest tech disappointment of the year. Engadget’s Ryan Block says “it ain’t all THAT bad.” What’s your take? Read More »
Travel review site Kango, which brings together traveler opinions from across the web, then analyzes them using natural language analysis and travel-specific term matching to help you find the perfect hotels and activities for your next vacation, said it entered “almost beta” today. Kango’s “almost beta”… Read More »
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Brazen Careerist Penelope Trunk on how to improve your job just by dumping stuff from your to do list: You define what your job by what you focus on. If we focus on everything, our job is nothing. I dumped things that are essential to some… Read More »
Chuck Brotman is the Director of Sales Engineering for ON24, a webcasting and rich media marketing company based in San Francisco. He’s seen the web impact the sales organization in terms of convenience, speed and productivity. Describe your job/career/business I work as the director of sales engineering… Read More »
Kids’ plush toy social network Webkinz.com has started running advertising, a move that, if recent articles in New York Times and Silicon Alley Insider are to be believed, has greatly upset parents. In fact, whatever controversy exists seems to have been manufactured by… Read More »
Long-time telecommuter Pete Johnson offers some great tips for holding a web meeting, which he sums up like this: Distribute a numbered agenda before the meeting that clearly defines why each person’s attendance is necessary and follow it during the proceedings. It’s too easy for people… Read More »
With 2008 right around the corner, it’s worth looking back at 2007. I had thought — or at least hoped — that people would stop talking about hybrid web/desktop apps this year because Internet access would be nearly ubiquitous. Was I right? Not exactly. Read More »
The web change work in so many ways: where we can work, who we work with, how we work. Here are the books from 2007 that help define the ways the web changes work, from the practical to the theoretical. I’ve left out profession-specific book such… Read More »
Marci Alboher of the New York Times Shifting Careers blog offers five useful time management tips this morning, including this one: 4. Find your rhythm and schedule around it. I work at home and I work best when I have large expanses of available time to… Read More »
Social networking is starting to enter its next phase: distributed social networking. And some are looking to open-source blogging platform WordPress to be its foundation. Read More »
Wondering if you’re going to look like a dork on your next video chat? Check out these top ten tips to be video ready from video chat and videoconference service SightSpeed. Each of the tips comes with its own funny video demonstration. If you’re looking… Read More »
VoIP startup Jaxtr said today that it has attracted 5 million registered members, up from 500,000 users 140 day ago, making the company “the fastest-growing Internet communications service in history — ahead of Skype, Hotmail and ICQ,” according to its press release. But where is… Read More »
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