HitWise Lee Ann Prescott provides us with an interesting usage breakdown for Google Base during March 2006. Shopping & Classifieds sites getting 18% of Google Base’s downstream traffic, with nearly 8% of traffic going to job sites. Lee Ann ponders that Google Base is a part shopping directory, part recipe search service, part classified service,Continue reading “Google Base in the click stream”
Category Archives: Technology
Wiring the web and organisations
Following the recent posts on RSS, Web 2.0 and the impact on HR vendors I was listening to the Gillmor Gang talk with Ray Ozzie CTO of Microsoft on the Live Clipboard and it got me thinking.
Live Clipboard allows you to copy and paste structured data to and from a web site or your PC. If you are like me your immediate reaction is huh? But after thinking it through for a few minutes I started to understand what he was getting at.
Computerworld article on HR-XML
An article from ComputerWorld Australia on the benefits of using HR-XML for data exchange, oh, and I am one of the people interviewed for the story :-). I was called during the week about the article, about the same time as the discussion between Thomas and I was going on around HR and Web 2.0.
Sol TXT YR resume had 2 happen
(Via Gautam Ghosh .) Job seekers in India can now SMS their resume to recruiters. The new service from IndiaHR.com called smsresume.com allows jobs seekers to post their resume on their web site and SMS an id to recruiters who then view the resume online. While I don’t see it being used for all jobContinue reading “Sol TXT YR resume had 2 happen”
Listings from the edge
Over the last month or so I have been watching with great interest the growing buzz over Edegio. Last week they had their first every public demo at an SDForum online classifieds event in the Google offices. So what is Edgeio? To quote from their first blog post:-
Edgeio is all about edge publishing. It is our belief that services that try to restrict how users create and consume information cannot ultimately be successful. Users own their data, and services exist not to silo that data, but rather to add value to it. That is what Edgeio is setting out to do.
We will be focusing on classified listings of any type to start.
While a bit abstract the terms “classified listing” has had my attention.
Social software and SAP
Ajay Das from SDN posted a couple of days ago about Social computing and possible business models which has some great insight. He says :- Given that technology has become more prevalent (let us stick with SAP for the time) and more easily available, and, also that is has become easier to create applications, and,Continue reading “Social software and SAP”
Sharing content in a Web 2.0 world
A week ago Ray Ozzie posted about Really Simple Sharing a new extension to the RSS (and OPML) protocol from Microsoft called Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE), that is released under Creative Commons. SSE allows asynchronous replication of items among two or more parties via feeds. There has been a bit of a buzz over thisContinue reading “Sharing content in a Web 2.0 world”
Google base and HR
Sometimes I like to watch, and other times I tend to jump in with both feet. The launch of Google Base has been one of those times I have wanted to watch, well read really. There are thousands of opinions out there on what Google base is really doing, what is not doing, why itContinue reading “Google base and HR”
Sony in deep doodoo
Over the last few days there has been a buzz about the “malware” that Sony’s DRM protected CDs have installed on Windows based computers. Now not only has Sony been hit by a class action law suit, hackers have now used the Sony DRM to hide trogan horses. Update: Sony has now stopped manufacturing ofContinue reading “Sony in deep doodoo”
Is your vendor certified?
With the HR-XML organisation announcing over a dozen new certifications under the HR-XML program “HR-Certify” users of HR technology need to begin to take note of if their vendor is on the list and if not why not. HRcertify.org allows users of technology to check to see if their vendor (or proposed vendor) is certifiedContinue reading “Is your vendor certified?”
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