The U.S. economy has been looking kind of iffy lately. What’s the job market outlook for 2008? Web workers want to know. Good news: The U.S. economy continues to grow (albeit slowly). Last Friday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released the latest job numbers, estimating… Read More »
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Although LinkedIn wants to emulate Facebook’s success by drawing users and applications through the use of a similar portal strategy, LinkedIn is no Facebook. Today the professional networking service unveils two new features that demonstrate how LinkedIn might reach out. Read More »
Joshua Porter runs a design and consulting company that focuses on designing social web applications. He left full-time employment this summer to found Bokardo Design and now works out of his home office. Josh blogs at Bokardo. Describe your job/career In August of this year I… Read More »
Google Talk gives you instant messaging, Gmail notifications, voice calling from PC to PC, and file transfers (though the last three are not available in Gmail chat or the Gtalk gadget). Recently, they’ve added group chat and AIM integration too. You can access it in a… Read More »
Spend too much time worrying about getting your desk perfectly clean and your work perfectly excellent and you might put yourself at risk for psychological problems. A slavish devotion to perfection can be psychologically unhealthy, according to Benedict Carey writing for The New York Times: [Several] recent… Read More »
When you get book recommendations from Amazon or music suggestions from Last.fm, they’re based not just on your own shopping and surfing history, but on the preferences of people who like the same things you do. It’s called collaborative filtering, and it’s not always an ideal… Read More »
I was checking out personalization service matchmine today and it made me think of Last.fm vs. Pandora for finding music to listen to while I work. Last.fm uses collaborative filtering — recommending music based on what people with similar taste in music like… Read More »
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Google’s Marissa Mayer, VP of search products & user experience, proposed Google Trends as a way of polling the populace, suggesting in a webcast yesterday that Trends could help predict who will win an election. Mayer showed how Google Trends accurately predicted George W. Bush’s dominance… Read More »
What was the most memorable new product launched this year? Why, the Apple iPhone of course. Schneider Associates, comScore, IRI, and BNP Media’s New Product Magazine surveyed more than 1,000 consumers across the U.S. to find the most memorable new product launches for 2007. Here’s the… Read More »
There’s this idea wandering around the web that less is better: less work, generally, and less writing and blogging and especially less press release rehashing. But more and faster conversation about technology means more chances for interesting ideas and useful analysis to emerge. There’s certainly… Read More »
While some companies ban Facebook and similar social networking services, other employers like Serena Software embrace it. Serena has implemented “Facebook Fridays” on which employees are encouraged to use an hour to update their Facebook profiles and connect with co-workers, family, and friends on… Read More »
I always feel a little funny when I describe my work life to people who don’t use the web much. There are so many misconceptions about what goes on online: that it’s somehow dirty, that it involves fake social interactions, even that it’s slightly deviant. Apparently the… Read More »
Advertisers may have so far lagged behind consumers with their online migration, but they’ll shrink that gap over the next couple of years, according to a forecast from ZenithOptimedia. The media-buying firm projects that online advertising spending will overtake radio spending in 2008 — and… Read More »
Samuel offered some Great Gadget Gifts for Web Workers but I have enough stuff in my electronics closet. Here are a few non-gadget gift suggestions for the web worker in your life: Slippers that look like real shoes. This is an ideal gift for home-based workers… Read More »
Today Yahoo! Buzz unveils its Top Trends in Search for 2007 with the top ten news stories, top ten troubled celebrities, and the top ten in tech. But beyond those categories, Yahoo’s lists reminded me that web search is not simply about finding… Read More »
When I saw that Om was asking for under-$250 camera recommendations on our mother site, GigaOM, it struck me that the digital camera is a key piece of equipment for many web workers. Not only can you use one to produce just the right image… Read More »
Euan Semple writes at The Obvious that the Christmas season could be a good time to get your workplace to try out social software because of the surplus of time people have: One of the most common reasons given for not becoming engaged online is time.… Read More »
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