Posted in business, google on October 9th, 2006 Comments Off
Two of the most popular sites are now owned by a single company as Google announced it will be purchasing the rising star of the web- YouTube.com. For those YouTube fans, worry not the site will remain the same it will not be integrated with Google’s existing video service. Should be interesting to see how [...]
Posted in best-of-web, business on September 27th, 2006 2 Comments »
Pretty cool site if you’ve never seen it before, a Google-looking job search engine which also has a pretty cool salary search based on job listings. For the salary search you can add pretty detailed job descriptions to get down to more specifics than what most salary surveys will provide. Give it a try… Indeed [...]
I’m not kidding, Walmart is trying to launch a site to provide a G rated alternative to myspace. Don’t get me wrong I think that is a great idea as I think the open ways of myspace is setup better for adults, but I hardly think Walmart will be the ones to make this happen. [...]
Well I have finally finished The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman and it was absolutely a very interesting read. For those that don’t know this is a nonfiction book about how technology is flattening our world at a rapid pace and how individuals and countries can adapt to these changes and succeed in this [...]
Posted in business on June 27th, 2006 Comments Off
There was some buzz recently about how Apple Computer Inc has changed their mind and decided not to open a giant tech support center in India as they had planned. It appears that the Indian economy may be growing to fast for itself as climbing wages and high turnover is making Bangalore a little less [...]
Posted in best-of-web, consumer on June 26th, 2006 Comments Off
A friend at worked out pointed out a pretty slick website that allows you to estimate the real time value of virtually any house you want, obviously including your own. All you need to do is type in the address and click submit. Hard to say how accurate it is, although from messing around myself [...]
Great news for Orlandonians that are in the IT industry, and actually even for those that aren’t. eWEEK.com, a well respected technology publication, lists Orlando as one of the ten cities most likely to become the next big technology hub. Things are going well lately for “the city beautiful” with lots of new high paying [...]
Posted in consumer on March 20th, 2006 1 Comment »
Credit cards do anything they can to entice you to apply for them, but I can tell you firsthand hand though that one of them lives up to the billing. Blue Cash from American Express. Why do I say this- it’s simple: we just got $550 cash back from Amex for the past year’s purchases. [...]