Huffington Post:
General consensus and research shows that the serious unemployment we are experiencing will lag 12-18 months behind any economic recovery. What's more, 60-80 percent of all jobs are filled through networking, inside contact a (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
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VentureBeat:
Facebook unveiled what could become a pretty powerful marketing tool for large multinationals and brands last night. You can now target specific locations and languages when you send out updates on a Facebook page. A brand li (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
When you launch a make or break initiative like Windows Azure, you better get it right.Well, from our vantage point, Microsoft got it right. How? In front of a sea of developers at the Professional Developers Conference, Micr (Read More)
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British people are among the ugliest in the world according to elitist dating website BeautifulPeople.com. Interested applicants submit their photos and are rated based on looks to determine whether they can join the site. Si (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In August we reviewed Demand Media, one of the largest producers of content on the Webtoday. Wired Magazine recently compared Demand Media's content business to Henry Ford's production line for cars. It currently produces 4,0 (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Game startup Ohai is launching a new vampire-themed online world on Facebook as part of an attempt to snare more time and money from social network fans.Social games have exploded on Facebook this year. But the games have bee (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Twitter and LinkedIn are syncing status updates as the microblogging network looks to serve a growing number of users who are tweeting for business purposes. In many ways, Twitter has become like a living resume — people use (Read More)
Tech Blog:
Twitter and LinkedIn will start letting users sync their accounts starting Tuesday, allowing posts from LinkedIn to appear in Twitter streams, and vice versa. It’s a move aimed at the growing base of business users who take a (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Offerpal Media founder Anu Shukla was hit with a lawsuit this summer over alleged shenanigans over the company’s founding, VentureBeat has learned.In August, Kevin Halpern filed a breach of contract lawsuit against Shukla. He (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Metaplace is launching audio chat in its user-generated virtual world platform today, letting users chat with one another in the 70,000 virtual worlds they have created.The San Diego-based company has developed a platform tha (Read More)
Achenblog:
You've read the stories about how ABC News is thinking of making George Stephanopoulos a co-host on Good Morning America. Stephanopoulos supposedly is trying out for the job and vying with news reader Andrew Cuomo for the slo (Read More)
MSNBC:
The Swiss Foreign Ministry says it was the victim of a "professional" cyber attack aimed at obtaining information from its computer network. (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
An all-star team is forming at StatusNet, the open microblogging service for businesses and communities. The newest addition is Jon Phillips, former community and business development manager for Creative Commons. Phillips (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Editor’s note: This story is part of our Microsoft-sponsored series on cutting-edge innovation.Several bedrock assumptions in modern computing are crumbling. Individual processor cores no longer double in speed every two year (Read More)
Huffington Post:
The social network's hook is to get pro and famous athletes to create profiles where they can blog, post video content and give fans an inside look into their lives and training. In turn, fans can connect with professional at (Read More)
VentureBeat:
I know what you’re thinking: Another social network? But LockerBlogger has 140 professional athletes already signed up. You won’t find the superstars here. You’re more likely to run into Dodgers’ hitting coach Don Mattingly, (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
One million new people signed up for LinkedIn accounts already this month, taking the professional social network past the 50 million user mark. LinkedIn has some of the most valuable user data in all of social networking, n (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Jon Stewart began his show last night by skewering CNN for fact checking a "Saturday Night Live" skit in which Fred Armisen (playing Barack Obama) claimed to have done "nothing" since taking office. In this hard hitting repor (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Last week on his show Rush Limbaugh told his viewers about how he had been invited to serve as a judge at the 2010 Miss America Pageant, which is in January, but that he was hesitant because it's a week-long commitment--in Ve (Read More)