Following my post on Resume 2.0, Robert Scoble posts that the resume is dead! (Ok I have taken some poetic license here.) A recruiter from Yahoo has been courting him for a few months now, but continually wants a resume. One of the emails is from a Yahoo recruiter who has been talking with meContinue reading “Do you really need a resume?”
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Test Writely Post
This is a test blog post from Writely the Web 2.0 word processor owned by Google. I have been playing with Google‘s new Spreadsheet and thought I should also look again at Writely. With Gmail , Google Calendar , Writely , and the new Google Spreadsheet Google are fast becoming a serious competitor to theContinue reading “Test Writely Post”
Social Engineering
I found this very disturbing article from Techmemeorandum about using social engineering to compromise an organisations security defences, the troubling part about this example was how easily the defences were breached. As seen in this quote they had 75% success rate allowing them access to a vast number of systems in the target organisation. AfterContinue reading “Social Engineering”
Inside out, back to front and open recruiting
Rob Merrill over at GoodRecruits has a taken several ideas that are brewing across the blogosphere and produced an interesting business idea. Jobster, but distributed… Rob feel we all need to get into Microformats, Microformat Search engines, social networks, XFN (or would RapLeaf be just as good?) mash them all together and create a distributedContinue reading “Inside out, back to front and open recruiting”
Microformats a trend to watch
Over the last year or so there has been a number of very clever people have been working on a concept called Microformats. A couple of days ago Technorati released a Microformats Search engine, while not the first it certainly is the first open mainsteam search engine launched for microformats by an organisation. The launchContinue reading “Microformats a trend to watch”
Your online reputation
There is a saying “on the internet no ones knows if you are a dog“, in other words you might be a trustworthy person however because of the anonymous nature of the internet it is very hard for others to judge. In daily transactions, both business and personal, your reputation is a key component. InContinue reading “Your online reputation”
Some new tools to try out – Updated
I have begun playing with a couple of new tools that I thought I would share with you. Firstly Google Notebook is a new tool in Beta (surprised?) that Google released last week. The notebook installs itself as a Toolbar but displays itself in the right hand corner of the Status bar, the bottom of you browserContinue reading “Some new tools to try out – Updated”
ZoomIn to Australian Social Mapping Software
Here is a really really cool new tool, ZoomIn, thanks to Cam & Rich from G’Day World for the pointer. ZoomIn is an Australian mapping solution that is mashed up with social networking and a photo sharing site. Users can create places, upload photos and add comments. The mapping software is very good, personally IContinue reading “ZoomIn to Australian Social Mapping Software”
Google Calendar Update
Google has released a set of APIs for developers to integrate their Google Calendar with other web applications. But a number of other problems still exist when running Norton Internet Security. I am running NIS 2003 so I am not sure of the settings in other versions. I spent a while trying to isolate whyContinue reading “Google Calendar Update”
Google Calendar only 20% there
3 or 4 days ago Google inflicted Google Calendar on the world, yet another in their long line of Beta products. Being part geek I tried it out over the Easter break and within about 2 minutes became very unimpressed with the product. Based on the bugs, quirks and workarounds this product does not lookContinue reading “Google Calendar only 20% there”
Michael Specht 