Submitted by Amitai Givertz:
Today, I offer a tough pill to swallow for all Internal and External Recruiters: Our obsession with Social Networking (SN) has officially made us the laughing stocks of Corporate America. Let that sink in for a minute. Not only do most Senior Execs agree, but juggernaut IBM even invested millions in making a commercial an (Read More)
Submitted by Amitai Givertz:
I recently blogged about my disdain for so-called ‘bloggers’ who rip and run with your content. You know the drill. You stay up late researching and writing a post, only to find it re-posted (at varying lengths) on other people’s blogs. Sure, they’re kind enough to attribute the story to you. But let’s be honest; how many p (Read More)
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Why have more than 500 million people engaged in social networking and growing at historic rates? Why are there more than 60 million blogs discussing anything, everything, by anyone and everyone? Why ... (Read More)
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A robotic suit is helping people paralysed from the waist down do what was previously considered impossible - stand, walk and climb stairs.
ReWalk users wear a backpack device and braces on their legs and select the activity they want from a remote control wrist band. (Read More)
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Speaking before an overflowing ballroom at the Black Hat security conference, representatives from U.S. government and FBI made assertions regarding government's active involvement in the fight against Internet threats, terrorism, and cyber crime. They also made it clear that they want hackers to join the effort.
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July 20, 2008 (Computerworld) Apple Inc.'s iPhone 3G supply dropped dramatically over the weekend, as the company's own inventory tool showed fewer than 9% of its stores had any phones to sell on Sunday. (Read More)
: @jasongoldberg This is the story I get every time I try and clip something from Computerworld. It was probably the first time I clipped a story from from them. Usually I have to enter them manually like I'm going to right now.
: @Crow74 As far as I know it's still unresolved. At least I know how to find this article everytime! Once Jason gets settled in after his move to Germany ,hopefully he will have some time to look into it. I've expierenced this on a couple of other sites I've tried to clip from besides ComputerWorld.
Submitted by Amitai Givertz:
But now Facebook has a big problem: a “legal battle over whether Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg ripped off Harvard classmates in launching his social networking Web site,” according to the San Jose Mercury News.The case is currently being heard in a San Jose, California, courtroom. “At issue is whether ConnectU, founded b (Read More)
Submitted by Amitai Givertz:
Social Media is everywhere these days. In the past 6 months, I must have signed up to dozens of social media sites, used them once or twice and then abondoned then to the box of neglected toys. The onslaught started slowly. We made friendster/MySpace/Facebook profiles, some of us started personal blogs, we got digg, del.ici (Read More)
: I would venture to say that what is noise to one may in fact be signal to another: personally, I get tired of slogging through all the tech feeds to find the 5% that are useful for work and perhaps 5% that interest me personally. But then again, that's what I've got Yahoo pipes for: to help me filter the noise before it ever gets to me. Don't see why one couldn't go the same route to filter, say, an unwanted Twitter follower.
: @nigelwalsh @isthisstupid Merge them and filter them when you do! I like the notion of a signal to noise ratio, and I also remember not to pigeon hole. Some fool might be mostly noisy (mostly cloudy?), but as the good Bard has helped us to know: often the fool says the most profound thing.
It's possible that the one signal from a noisy "friend" might surpass the many signals from a guru.
Submitted by Amitai Givertz:
While the summer offers up more market jitters and deepening concern over the mortgage debacle, one might assume that a downturned economy could cut the legs out from the heady growth of social media industries. Not necessarily so. Venture capital might tighten, but social media consumption continues to skyrocket. Subscr (Read More)
Submitted by Amitai Givertz:
Over the past 48 hours I conducted a poll of Twitter users. Unscientific? Absolutely. Generic? Of course. And yet I was surprised at the results. What did I ask on Thursday? "Which issue is bigger to you? Gender gap/social media, race/social media, poverty gap/social media or generation gap/social media.". (Read More)
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Broward County's median price for existing homes was $305,400, off 20 percent from $382,000 a year ago, the Florida Association of Realtors said Thursday. Sales fell 5 percent, to 639 from 674 last year.Both prices and sales increased from May, suggesting that the rate of deterioration in the market has slowed. But experts (Read More)
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Yesterday I had yet another conversation with executive #5 in a Fortune 500 company who was still hung up on all this social stuff. His remarks started out this way: “We’re still trying to figure out how we make money from social media initiatives.”My response: Do you charge for customer service? He said why of course not. (Read More)
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