It’s been widely reported in the last 24 hours or so that Twitter has imposed limits on following behavior – though some reports have gotten a bit confused. As laid out on our parent blog GigaOM, Twitter is currently limiting the number of people that … Read More »
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There are a variety of sites out there to help you build a resume that will actually get you a job. Razume hopes to stand out from the rest by making it easier for you to fine-tune a resume. After … Read More »
If you’re an independent web worker, one of your selling points is probably that you’re readily accessible to your customers. Many of us can be contacted by an almost embarassing variety of ways: multiple email accounts, multiple phone numbers, contact forms on our web sites, Get … Read More »
The California Supreme Court ruled unanimously this week that noncompete clauses in employment agreements that dictate who you can work for in your next job are against state law and unenforceable. This has implications for web workers in that state, many of whom operate under … Read More »
In an interesting turn of events, Yahoo! (who, along with 32 other companies, is about to get picked on by a Congressional committee over their customization and privacy policies) has announced that anyone who wants to enhance their privacy on the Yahoo! network will soon be … Read More »
Like many of us, I spend quite a lot of time on the web and come across a staggering number of interesting things. In Clearing The Cache I choose a theme, pull out some of my favorites and share them with you here. Freelance Folder on being … Read More »
A couple months ago we wrote about Reware’s Juice Bag Profolio, concluding that its nerdular style and dorky desirability had been trumped by the fact that it could tranform the Sun’s rays into juice for your gadgets…in short, great tech, terrible bag.
Fortunately, Chicago-based
One of the difficulties of handing over work to a virtual assistant (or a real one, for that matter) is deciding which things you’re better off paying other people to do. Erica Douglass suggests in an excellent blog entry that you should set a … Read More »
If you’re running a very agile project team, you may find that even tools like Basecamp are too complex and high-maintenance. No Kahuna offers a new take on lightweight project management for those cases – and it works very well. … Read More »
Document-sharing site Docstoc (who we’ve mentioned before) has rolled out a new feature: private documents with tracking. You’ve been able to upload documents privately to Docstoc for a while (so that they don’t show up on the main public … Read More »
Rattling around the blogs this morning is the cautionary tale of Nick Saber, who found himself locked out of all his Google accounts. We’ve written plenty about the benefits of backing up your data from local hard drives to the cloud, but cases like this … Read More »
Many people use Twitter as a virtual water cooler, purely for casual chat. But there’s another way to treat it: as a window into what thousands of people are talking about right now. If you’re interested in a topic or responsible … Read More »
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