hCard Embedded in New Email Signature

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I updated my work email signature and felt a little saucy and embedded my hCard information right into the HTML. (Yes, the Unix users out there who only read plain-text emails won’t see it).
hCard is a microformat, a way to encode certain pieces of human-readable information with machine-readable meta-data to allow computers and [...]

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LinkedIN: ‘I’m Gonna Have to Block You’

Asking people to join your network may be hazardous to your (network’s) health.
Recently, LinkedIn, the granddaddy of all business social networkins sites, added some good features, trying to help people get and keep connected.  I am strongly in favor of LinkedIn, and I am glad they made some changes to keep up with the pack… [...]

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Network With Meaning

Dave Slusher of Evil Genius Chronicles has had enough with the newest, shiniest social networks clamoring for his attention:
People invite me to services all the time. They want to connect to me on LinkedIn, Twitter, FaceBook. I appreciate that anyone cares and I get a little warmth from the sentiment. I’m not joining anything that [...]

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Bookmarklet: Make Google Earth KML File from Google Maps

Google Maps has such a good interface, it’s easy to find stuff in there. But, what if you want to save that information over to Google Earth?
Well, it turns out that if you add the parameters “&output=kml” to the very end of a Google Maps URL, it will generate a KML file that works in [...]

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Google Desktop for Mac

Thanks to Nitesh Gautam, I know that Mac users can now have access to my number-one most important add-on to any computer I will ever own/use: Google Desktop.
Google has released its desktop app - Google Desktop for Mac today.

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ManagerAssistant 3.0 Software Helps Managers be more Efficient and Productive

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Managing people in any company is certainly a labor-intensive task. It takes many hours of vigilant observation, discussion, planning, organization, rewarding, correction, tracking, reporting, and paperwork—in short, managing. One software product that has been created to help facilitate managers in these responsibilities is ManagerAssistant 3.0.
ManagerAssistant Appraisal Software “lets you track, evaluate and control the [...]

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Why Facebook Gets My Lovin’

I have a new desktop, and it’s NOT from google. Of all things, it’s a social networking site that actually delivers on the promise of what that means–a simple, fun way to keep tabs on people you know and people you care about.

Yep, it’s Facebook.
In the last few weeks, I’ve been so passionate about Facebook [...]

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Software for Starving Students 2007.01 Released

The 2007.01 release of Software for Starving Students is now available for download at: http://softwarefor.org/downloads.html — Software for Starving Students is a free collection of programs organized for students (but available to anyone). They have best-in-class programs gathered onto one CD (one disc for OS X, one for Windows).
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Dice Acquires Financial Boards

Dice announced this morning that they have acquired two new job boards squarely focused on the financial sector:

jobsinthemoney.com

efinancialcareers.com

Dice, which labels itself "the leading provider of specialized career sites and career fairs" announced the acquisition by email and by Press Release (which happens to be in a very old-school PDF format)
Here’s a nugget, showing Dice’s [...]

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Google Reader Gets Facelift

I track a lot of websites and blogs–both from people in the recruiting industry, and from business leaders I follow, businesses in the local area, and top-talent in the area that I like to track because I respect their opinions.
VIDEO: See Chris Wetherell, Google Reader Engineer, introduce the new version of the feed reading [...]

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