TeleNav, Inc. (NASDAQ: TNAV), one of the largest global wireless location-based services providers with more than 16 million subscribers, today announced a free application for the iPhone and iPod touch* called Jungle!. Jungle! is a convenient way for college students to buy, sell and request products and services in their area, including textbooks, tutoring or even housing, based on their current location.
When Android debuted in 2007, I couldn’t figure out how Google had managed to apply an Apache license to the project. Java, like Linux, was governed by the GPL and thus incompatible with the more permissive license Android was sporting. Stefano Mazzocchi subsequently answered the Java related questions: Google wasn’t using Sun’s VM, they’d built their own. As had Danger before them, from whence many of the Android team arrived. Called Dalvik, Google’s cleanroom reimplementation was, if not “Sun’s worst nightmare” as Mazzocchi put it, a clear fork-in-the-eye to the Java license holders. However brave a face they put on it at the time.
Last year, there was a seemingly endless parade of stories on how aggregators, search engines and news blogs were apparently killing newspapers that publish original content. This year, add the rise of “content farms” to the list. Riding to the rescue, or so it hopes, comes Perfect Market and its new search marketing tool, “The Vault.”
Facebook will unveil a raft of new features when it takes the stage tomorrow at its first f8 developer conference in two years. That’s one week after its social networking rival Twitter unveiled its own competitive vision for the social web and finally debuted an ad network at its inaugural developer conference. Who will win this round in the battle for the social web?
Earnings season is getting into full swing in the technology sector, with Google set to release first-quarter results Thursday. Wall Street will be looking at Google’s announcement for clues about the Internet advertising market in general, before Yahoo and other companies release their numbers.
It’s all about information.
Odds are, you have a computer, or at least access to one. Go to your local library if you don’t and jump on the internet highway. When you’re out of work, the internet is your best tool for amassing information that can help in your job search, provided you utilize it effectively.
We linguists readily employ a maxim whenever someone asks what verb could be used when at loss for words: “When in doubt, use ‘get’”. By way of analogy, we could say “When you are looking for services or items on the World Wide Web, use ‘Craigslist’”. Within months of its inception, the classifieds service had already become a mainstay on the web, and it is likely to remain that way for some time to come. It makes perfect sense that engines for searching all of it at the very same time will crop up.
Extending its presence into South America, Simply Hired, the largest job search engine, today announced the launch of a new job search website in Brazil (www.simplyhired.com.br) as part of an international launch including Italy, Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands. Widely regarded as a country with early adopters of innovative technology and Internet usage, Brazil’s job seekers are primed for a new job search experience.
If brevity is the soul of wit, then Canadian web searchers are hilarious. According to new statistics by Hitwise, about half of Canadian internet searches are kept to just 1-2 words. As you can see by the chart below, Americans are the most wordy, while Brits keep it short and sweet.
Paul Anderson wants you to forget just about everything you think you know about finding a job. “Many changes have happened in the job market since 20 years ago, since 10 years ago – since last October,” said Anderson, a former hiring manager for Microsoft and Expedia.
The people who brought us diversity job board LatPro.com just launched JustJobs.com, a new job search engine intended to simplify job search. JustJobs.com is a vertical job search engine somewhat like Indeed.com and SimplyHired.com in that it searches positions from other job boards and employers' websites.
WASHINGTON - Strayer University, which normally charges for classes, offered a free one, today. It was a 90-minute seminar on job hunting in the modern economy.
eBay supporters may not love the latest graph released by Hitwise. Data collected over the course of almost three years indicates that searches for the word "auctions" are losing out in terms of quantity when compared to searches for "classifieds."
Ziipa is a rare combination of semantic search, crowdsourcing, and the random site discovery features that have made sites like StumbleUpon so popular. By using the site, you are almost guaranteed to find a site you like that you’ve never seen before. Alternatively, if you start out with a very specific query, you’re unlikely to find exactly what you’re looking for.
When searching for a job online, the task can be daunting if not down right depressing. Being up against who knows how may people for the same job, and then after applying, the case is that usually your application is lost in cyber space with never a response or even a thank you for applying automated email!
Thursday, August 19, 2010
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