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Science Technology: 7 Secrets to Getting Your Next Job Using Social Media
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Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog.
Between current economic conditions and the technological evolution of the Internet, the traditional approach most job seekers have taken in the past is no longer viable.
Science Technology: Are Paid Online Dating Sites Dead?
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A recent launch suggests that the web’s love affair with paid dating sites may be coming to an end. DowntoEarth is a new, completely free dating site with an interesting pedigree.
According to DowntoEarth’s Privacy Policy, this new, free entrant is “part of the IAC/InterActiveCorp family of businesses.” IAC, of course, acquired Match.com in 1999, and is also behind Match.com’s spin-off site Chemistry.com. Despite its success with paid dating, then, IAC is testing the waters with a free model.
Science Technology: Do You Hate Automatic Direct Messages?
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I don’t know about you, but I absolutely hate getting an automatic direct message right after following someone on Twitter. It just seems tacky and a little disrespectful of my time (I received three such messages in the brief writing of this post alone).
Science Technology: Make Your Own Online Newspaper With Feed Chronicle
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Feed Chronicle is a new site that lets you transform those RSS feeds into your very own online newspaper. It’s simple to use and setup. Just create an account, select the feeds (from drop-down menus) you want for each newspaper-like section, and the final result is your very own online newspaper.
Science Technology: iPhone Gloves: Would You Buy Them?
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Is Apple getting into the glove making business? A patent filed by the tech company proposes special gloves for iPhone users that have an extra inner layer which would enable the screen to recognize the touch of a gloved finger. Finally, our frost bitten fingers will find respite within the warmth of these gloves while we text or Tweet away.
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Science Technology: HOW TO: Raise Money in a Down Economy
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Eric Ries serves as a venture advisor for Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and is the author of the blog Lessons Learned.
Raising money is never easy, but in a recession it gets even harder. With so many bargains out there, a traditional pitch and a business plan just don’t make the cut. But there is a different way: if you build a lean startup, you can demonstrate that your business works, even with only a handful of customers.
Science Technology: Reading Trails: A Visual Way to Find New Books to Read
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As an aficionado of great literature - I was an English major in college - I’m always on the look out for a great read. My current strategy for discovering novels and novelties is to park myself in a bookstore aisle and scour through classics I’ve always wanted to read. This particular methodology can be quite enjoyable, but it’s not an incredibly effective way of finding more than one book at a time. So where I do a turn for a more scintillating and satisfying book finding system?
Science Technology: Master Social Stalking With WhosTalkin
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WhosTalkin, a new entrant into the social search space, is another free web-based tool, much like Social Mention, designed to help users track and monitor buzz around the Web.
Ironically, the WhosTalkin.com URL could easily be mistaken for “who stalkin,” which seems very appropriate given that social search includes Twitter mentions, blog entries, news articles, videos, images, tagging, and social bookmarking - it provides an easy way to “stalk” topics (and people) across the Web.
