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Since it became the default URL shortener for Twitter, Bit.ly has been growing like crazy. And as we learned from Spider-Man, with great power, comes great responsibility.Bit.ly has started warning users of potentially malicious sites, based on information it has about URLs being shortened. For example, if you click on this (Read More)
Ecademy: user blogs
I have been observing Ecademy at ethnographic setting for 12 months; not only with recorded observations but also interacting with its citizens actively on a daily basis. I am also member of over 50 other social networking platforms. Based on this experience and comprehensive literature review in the area, I believe that Ec (Read More)
: Nice article, I too believe Ecademy is one of the better social networks. I have abandoned MySpace as the adds were intrusive and the profile options too complicated. I use twitter, FriendFeed, LinkedIn and I blog, but Ecademy is the best overall.
Submitted by Judithgermain:
"Hopeless” is a word often associated with men and their health – on the face of it at least – with a fair amount of justification. Health and wellness experts reel off statistics proving ways in which modern life is deadlier to the male than the female of the species. “Men tend to do far worse than women not only in ter (Read More)
PersonnelToday.com - All HR news stories
Graduates are being "paralysed by fear" and put off applying for UK jobs because they believe the hype that no-one is hiring top graduate recruiters have warned. PricewaterhouseCoopers PwC and Deloitte – the top two graduate employers on the Times annual list – have called on UK firms to promote the job opportunities (Read More)
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Submitted by Judithgermain:
A Google computer algorithm that can identify unhappy staff thinking about leaving the company is unlikely to become commercially available, PM has learnt.News of the internally developed computer formula was revealed by the company’s vice president of people operations, Laszlo Bock, in an interview with the Wall Street Jou (Read More)
Submitted by Louisgray
from Google Reader:
We’ve all heard it before. Mac’s are cool and Mac software is better than anything for Windows – blah blah blah.I had almost begun to think that we had gotten past this elitist’s better than thou attitude, especially when people like Louis Gray is willing to give Windows a chance. But no, the self-righteous belief that onl (Read More)
Submitted by Judithgermain:
This astonishing picture shows fuel leaking from a jet at 35,000ft.It was taken by Bartek Bachleda - a staff sergeant in the U.S. Air Force - who had to show it to a stewardess before she would take him seriously.Sgt Bachleda is now being hailed a hero for saving the lives of the roughly 300 passengers aboard the flight fro (Read More)
: Two possibilities, either the story is fake or the pilot has just graduated from the flying kindergarten. The story that the captain was TRYING to figure out the reason of fuel loss does NOT make any sense. What was that airline? Where is the transparency? One more issue, what could be the reason for the Air Force to handle the case instead of the concerned civil authority?
Submitted by Judithgermain:
Leaders share many qualities, but the skills one needs in a top job are different from those required early in a career. That's certainly evident at Campbell Soup, where women of different ages and ranks face very different challenges. (Read More)
USATODAY.com - Technology Live
New phishing scam hits Facebook ... AT&T, Verizon, others sued over Shazam app ... iPhone app revenue estimated at near $45 million ... Music site Blip.fm may be in trouble ... Cisco pushing into new markets ... Microsoft's stuffed software...
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information aesthetics
Subway Sparklines [transit.frumin.net] illustrates the relative yearly ridership of every New York City subway station from 1905 until 2006. Each station is represented as a separate sparkline, located on the New York city map. The general idea it that the history of subway ridership tells a story about the history of a nei (Read More)
Submitted by Judithgermain:
They work beside us in our offices and even though they are our offspring we have called them: Satan s spawn, the generation of vipers, among other things. This NAME-calling is not necessarily because they are evil per se, but it is just that right now we have to lead them or sit around the board room table with them and (Read More)