Man, talk about pressure. A new study by news @ nature titled "Web users judge sites in the blink of an eye" says Web users make up their mind about a site in the first twentieth of a second. The first twentieth of a second!?!?!?!? Recently, John Sullivan wrote in an article titled "Why Not Do Something Strategic [...]
Continue reading...16. January 2006
Update on the much-hyped New York Times article: "Indeed is working with Directemployers/JobCentral in that we include DirectEmployers job listings in our index. The NY Times report is incorrect and I understand from Bill Warren [JobCentral] that there was a misunderstanding with the journalist." - Paul Forster, CEO, Indeed.com Looks like we’ve gotten a bit worked up over nothing.
Continue reading...15. January 2006
see your ad here It’s shaping up to be a very interesting week in the online recruitment space. This is from a story in today’s New York Times: Taking a slightly different tack are sites like Indeed.com and SimplyHired.com, which rely on search engines to aggregate a vast array of listings from newspaper classified ads, job boards, corporate [...]
Continue reading...14. January 2006
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." - Charles Darwin (1809-1882) Are you changing or becoming extinct?
Continue reading...12. January 2006
How will Google Base or a more evolved classifieds offering from Google make money? This should give us a clue (click on image to enlarge): Do a local search for New York hotels. Notice the sponsored links (circled in red above)? Well, there’s your revenue producer. Google Base’s look and feel, for those of you who haven’t [...]
Continue reading...12. January 2006
Google is now worth more than IBM. It’s twice as large as Apple, and it’s equal to the market values of eBay, Yahoo! and Amazon.com combined.
Continue reading...11. January 2006
Free isn’t freedom.Is the Net free if they know where you surf?Is TV free if they know what you watch?Is telephony free if they know to whom and when you talk?Is GPS free if they know where you are?The future may be free.But free isn’t freedom.
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16. January 2006
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