4 Secrets For Using LinkedIn to Land a Job Chelsea Gladden, mashable.com It’s the largest and most popular social networking platform on the web for professionals, but can LinkedIn really land you a job?More About: contributor, Feature, job search series, Jobs, linkedin Chelsea Gladden RT @mashable: 4 Secrets For Using LinkedIn to Land a Job … Continue reading Using LinkedIn to land a job
Biking and Walking to Work idvsolutions.com Bicycling.com came out with a ranking of the top US cities for bicycling. I took their top ten cities and dot mapped every commuter in and around them, colored by their method of commute, to get … UXBlog | IDV Solutions’ User Experience: Biking and Walking to Work http://flip.it/VHCFZ … Continue reading Visualizing top cities for bicycling
In Big Tech, Bet on Companies That Seek a ‘Better Way’ Sarah Mitroff, wired.com Consumer internet companies are notorious for selling us something we don’t really need, whether it’s Foursquare telling us to check-in to the restaurants and shops we enter, or Facebook encouraging us to share every detail of our lives. But it’s… In … Continue reading Solving unmet needs through startup companies
3 billion check-ins let Foursquare highlight the most awesome places in the U.S. John Koetsier, venturebeat.com Three billion check-ins and tens of millions of tips ought to add up to something. In Foursquare’s case, that means the “Best of” series, which highlights “the most awesome places in cities across the U.S.”The location-based social network, which … Continue reading 3 billion check-ins let Foursquare highlight the most awesome places
Find out who has viewed your LinkedIn profile by Matt Elliott, cnet.com A clever trick lets you find out who has viewed your LinkedIn profile without upgrading your account. If you are unemployed, unhappy at your current job, or simply curious about other opportunities, then you likely keep close tabs on yo… RT @CNETHowTo: Find … Continue reading Find out who has viewed your LinkedIn profile
Safe Shepherd Protects Your Social Networks, Keeps Your Data Off of Creepy People Search Engines Alan Henry, lifehacker.com Safe Shepherd is a privacy protection service that already scrubs your personal data from creepy people search engines, but the service also now keeps tabs on your social networks like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram to make … Continue reading Safe Shepherd Protects Your Social Networks
RT @Techmeme: Restaurants Turn Camera Shy (Helene Stapinski / New York Times) http://flip.it/0A1K6 http://flip.it/3O9zY http://flip.it/jJpeX Related articles Should Restaurants Ban Food Photography? (neatorama.com) IHOP Franchisee Selects DTT for Enterprise-Wide Roll Out (prweb.com) Restaurant Charging $200/Person Has The Gall To Tell Diners They Can't Take Photos (businessinsider.com) Weekend reads: Restaurant food photos get controversial (mnn.com) … Continue reading Restaurants Turn Camera Shy
Airbnb And The Unstoppable Rise Of The Share Economy Tomio Geron, forbes.com On paper, Frederic Larson is just one data point in five years of U.S. government statistics showing underemployment in dozens of industries and stagnant income growth across the board. The 63-year-old photographer with two child… RT @Techmeme: Airbnb And The Unstoppable Rise Of … Continue reading Airbnb And The Unstoppable Rise Of The Share Economy
Mitch Lowe enlists an army of Zuckerbergs to save the planet By Andrew Zaleski, grist.org With just a couple of finger taps on my smartphone, I can purchase a beer via QR code or tell the people in city hall about a downed power line on my street. It’s better living through gadgetry — and … Continue reading Mitch Lowe enlists an army of Zuckerbergs
Buy or die: The survivalist approach to climate doom By Susie Cagle, grist.org Climate change is coming! Quick, buy more stuff!! That’s the advice from the New York Times Magazine feature “How to Survive Societal Collapse in Suburbia.” Wait, don’t laugh yet — we’ll get to that. First, meet Ron Douglas, a… RT @grist: A … Continue reading Buy or die: The survivalist approach
Guest Blogger, smartblogs.com There’s no doubt that Pinterest is generating considerable amounts of referral traffic for businesses. Many people were using Pinterest for business by finding ways around the settings meant for personal users, but now Pinterest is officially open… Getting started with Pinterest for business Related articles Getting Visual with Pinterest Marketing Strategy - … Continue reading Getting started with Pinterest for business
NewHive Lets You Hack Together Any Media Into A Website Collage. 10M Views Let It Raise Funding Josh Constine, techcrunch.com Instagram for websites? Not exactly. NewHive is more like a cross between MS Paint, Photoshop, and Tumblr. But NewHive’s not just a collage site-making tool. It has a community that’s logged 10 million views of … Continue reading NewHive Lets You Hack Together Any Media Into A Website Collage
Steve Tobak, inc.com LAST WORD Everything you do on the Internet is like a tattoo you get late at night that can never, ever be erased. We all behave like idiots at times. It’s been that way since the dawn of civilization. The one saving grace has always been… RT @AsurionCareers: “Everything you do on … Continue reading 9 Ways You’re Ruining Your Online Reputation
The Best Time to Buy Anything During the Year Whitson Gordon, lifehacker.com A bit of planning can save you a ton of money when it comes to buying throughout the year. Here’s your comprehensive, always up-to-date guide on the best times to buy everything this year.Every year year, we compile a list of the best … Continue reading The Best Time to Buy Anything
How REI Put A Bow On Social Marketing And Wowed Customers By Ekaterina Walter, fastcompany.com As marketers, we talk a lot about real-time response and true social agility. But very few brands were able to master the art. So is agile marketing a myth? A lot of brands struggle with agility in marketing: thinking on … Continue reading How REI Put A Bow On Social Marketing
Steelcase’s Anthropologist On Remaking Offices To Create Happier Workers By Drake Baer, fastcompany.com Human nature changes slowly, but the way we work and the idea of the “office” changes fast. Here’s how to harness those opposing forces for a happier work force. You text, you Gchat, you hop on Facebook—why? To communicate. Soon you find… … Continue reading Steelcase Anthropologist On Remaking Offices To Create Happier Workers
TalentBin Takes On LinkedIn By Targeting Recruiters By David Zax, fastcompany.com By trolling various sites, TalentBin builds a database of people’s hidden talents. Can it reinvent headhunting in the process? TalentBin, as its founder Pete Kazanjy explains, is a LinkedIn competitor. And yet, if the average person with … RT @FastCompany: TalentBin Takes On LinkedIn … Continue reading TalentBin Takes On LinkedIn
We forget a face, but not a Facebook post Anna Blackaby-Warwick, futurity.org U. WARWICK (UK) — Chatty updates on Facebook are much easier to remember than faces or carefully worded sentences.A new study sheds light on how our memories favor natural, spontaneous writing over polished, edited content—and could have wi… http://flip.it/VztTr Related articles Online fraudsters … Continue reading We forget a face, but not a Facebook post
Whoa What: All US iPhone Users Can Now Make Free Phone Calls Via Facebook By Dan Nosowitz, popsci.com No more caring about minutes. Free phone calls over Wi-Fi and 3G/4G! Facebook just let loose with a new update to the Messenger app for iPhone, which until now was restricted to text messaging, sort of like … Continue reading All US iPhone Users Can Now Make Free Phone Calls Via Facebook
(via Basis Band goes on sale, taking wearable fitness tech to the next level | Digital Trends) Related articles From The Pebble Smartwatch To Google Glass: Gauging The New Mobile Market For Wearable Devices (businessinsider.com) Gibson meets Glass: Cyberpunk creator dons Google's wearable (slashgear.com) 3 Ways To Make Wearable Tech Actually Wearable (fastcodesign.com) OK, cupid: … Continue reading Basis Band goes on sale, taking wearable fitness tech to the next level
Miveu intros updated X case that turns your iPhone 5 into a rugged POV camera, we go straps-on James Trew, engadget.com We’ve seen rugged cases for iPhones before, even those that claim to give it action-cam credentials. Miveu rolled up to CES and revealed its latest offering that incorporates a wide-angle FOV lens (much like … Continue reading Miveu intros updated X case that turns your iPhone 5 into a rugged POV camera
Facebook tests VoIP, adds voice mail-like service by Donna Tam, cnet.com The social network updates its Messenger app with the ability to send recorded voice messages globally, but tests actual voice calls in Canada. iPhone users in Canada can now use Facebook to make voice calls, the social network revealed… http://flip.it/SKLUK Related articles Facebook launched … Continue reading Facebook tests VoIP, adds voice mail-like service
Facebook’s Cafeteria, By The Masters Of Rustic Chic By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com Roman & Williams has created nostalgic interiors that most others can only emulate. Here’s the lunchroom they created with Facebook. Google ruined everything. Microsoft gave out free soft drinks, but Google let employees eat gourmet food for… RT @FastCoDesign: Facebook’s Cafeteria, By The … Continue reading Rustic eco chic in the Facebook cafeteria
Infographic: Showing When People Get Killed In Cars, Using Excel By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com John Nelson’s charts and maps on traffic fatalities are a reminder that a good data viz doesn’t always require graphic design chops—or software. With the abundance of data visualization projects we’ve seen over the last few years, it’s hard… RT @FastCoDesign: … Continue reading Car deaths by time of day
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A Journey Towards Local Manufacturing, Part 2: Maker’s Row, a Database of American Factories and What They Can Do for You core77.com Where would we be without the connective tissue that is the Internet? Amazon connects buyers and sellers. eBay lets us transfer junk from one person’s basement to another. Twitter lets ordinary citizens know … Continue reading A database of US factories and things for makers
lifehacker.com Adam Dachis View Profile • Email • Facebook • Twitter • Google Plus • RSS Work can be a lot more fun when your office inspires it, and that’s certainly the case with Shopify. They took an ordinary series of workspace… Plenty of Color and Lots of Personality: The Offices of Shopify http://flip.it/7avDp … Continue reading Plenty of Color and Lots of Personality: The Offices of Shopify
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