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YourFonts is a web-based service that turns your handwriting into a TrueType font for free. If you have a printer and scanner, nothing can stand between you and the awesomeness of your own script.... (Read More)
Submitted by Nigelwalsh:
Barack Obama -- who is due to be sworn in as president any minute now -- says it looks like he's keeping his beloved BlackBerry, despite earlier and ongoing concerns that it represents both a legal and security risk.Obama hasn't elaborated on what's changed since earlier reports indicated that the Secret Service would bring (Read More)
Mashable!
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.Social media resumes are important for attracting hiring managers directly to you, without you having to submit your resume, blindly, to them. The problem with submitting your resume (Read More)
Submitted by Jbuss:
Twitter is the original micro-blogging service, created with the idea of posting updates via SMS or text messages. With millions of users and growing, how can you use Twitter to find your next job?This quick guide will show you to get started with Twitter, build your network effectively and focus on your job search goals al (Read More)
Delicious/javacola
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been curating a list of social media marketing examples. The list started with 100 examples (including 35 from Mashable) and has since tripled in size with the participation of over a hundred contributors with examples from companies around the world. (Read More)
: This is extremely helpful for those of us who work with larger organizations and want to show solid examples/case studies of big brands and their use of social media.
Submitted by Daniel J Pritchett
from Google Reader:
Most bloggers love their RSS readers. Not only that, but they also love to gain new RSS readers. It is such a joy when you wake up one day and see that your Feedburner count jumped by 200 or 300, right?Those days are quite rare though, and most people seem to have a hard time gaining even a small number of new RSS subscribe (Read More)
TechCrunch
London based uberVU is about to launch a discussion-tracking product that will aggregate comments, Twitters, FriendFeed comments, trackbacks and other information about any URL (like a blog post) on the Internet. There’s real demand for this. Any given blog post, for example, may have lots of comments and trackbacks ( (Read More)
: Im loving BackType so much. It's really got me hooked and has opened up a wonderful selection of new blogs and comments I would otherwise never had known about.
And because I follow carefully, the comments are almost certainly going to be useful to me and entice me to get involved. So looking at any other similar options with open arms.
: Bleh, who cares. I like the idea of Cappuccinos but 4 bucks for a cup of coffee is ridiculous.
The stupid part i that McDonalds is trying to follow this model with it's McCafe deal. Hey, McDs, looks tasty but it's too pricey for a bit of flavor added mostly hot water.
Maybe they should halve all of their prices and see if they can drum up a new customer base.
Delicious/mbrownstone
Google Flu Trends is based on the simple idea that people who are feeling sick will probably turn to the Web for information, typing things like “flu symptoms” or “muscle aches” into Google. The service tracks such queries and charts their ebb and flow, broken down by regions and states.Early tests suggest that the service (Read More)
: This could easily be gamed. A better way is to track the actual outbreaks in real time, by texting. Exactly what Dr. Brilliant spoke about in his NY Times magazine article a few weeks ago.