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I recently read John Zappe’s feature on the $33M for an Army recruitment video game. GameSpot reported that $33M was spent over 10 years (year-by-year budget summary is below in Chart 1).
Taking a deeper dive into the story, I learned that the military combined spent about $700 million on recruitment advertising during the President Bush years. $33M amounts to 4.7% [...]
Candidates make mistakes all the time – being too aggressive, unprofessional email addresses, ring tone rings, funky voice mails, bad mouthing previous employers, and the list goes on, right?
Well, I did a search for ”GEICO hiring” on twitter to see what tweets have been posted this morning. I did the search not because I’m searching for a job, [...]
YouTube announced automated video captioning for videos. Converting audio to text in videos will make videos more accessible to deaf people or anyone searching for videos online, but it can also lead to several advantages for search engine optimization, too.
YouTube already allows manual captioning, but most video uploaders don’t take advantage of that feature. To [...]
75 talent acquisition gurus turned out to discuss best practices in recruitment, in particularly, how to effectively use business networking at the NYC Recruiting & HR Network Meetup. The Meetup.com group is adding about 50 new members per month.
The group beleives in face-to-face meetups to learn from each other, network/socialize, and have a little fun. At this Meetup people [...]
The battle for search continues. MSFT came out with a “new” search engine, called bing.com (or is it just its old one live.com?). Well if you type in Live.com you are redirected to Bing. Really liked the old Maps Bird’s Eye view on Live, Bing has the exactly same map service.
Yahoo will [...]
Here’s 100+ sites that will help you improve the world. Jobs sites, Green sites, enery conservation, cleaner energy, Social Responsibility, Charity, volunteering, politics and more…
Green Jobs or Make Your Job Greener
These sites will help you learn about green jobs and help find one.
Green Jobs Guidebook: New environmental and energy laws and policies will create millions in the US, [...]
Here’s an email I got today, I’d like to see if plaxo become my preferred biz networking site, I hope it does. I like the Outlook backup and sync features. The personal vs biz preferences are nice too. I wish the search people/connections could be more like linkedin.
I wonder how many people on Plaxo live in [...]
Ujogo Launched an app that looks a little like a bad co-branded website from 1999. After you add the uJogo poker app to your account you get this (including the banner ads that I presume ujogo keep all the revenue from):
Aside from the way it looks, I found it to be a fun and engaging poker app. It was [...]
I saw this in Mashable:
SNAP Interactive Earnings: Are Facebook Application Users Worth $1.40 a Piece?
January 16, 2008 — 03:22 AM PST — by Adam Ostrow — Share This
As a publicly traded company, SNAP Interactive (formerly eTwine Holdings), the company behind Facebook apps “Meet New People” and “Are You Interested?” is required to file their [...]
Today I was searching for avatars on facebook apps and could not find the app that I was looking for, but I know it was there. I searched using the term “avatar” and I could not find Voki (see www.voki.com), a talking avatar widget. So I do a search for word ‘Voki’ and its the [...]
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