Glassdoor is a crowd sourcing play that promises to turn the salary survey industry on it’s head. Founded by Expedia veterans, the premise is pretty simple. Tell me what you make, and I’ll tell you what I make. We discuss whether any of us would you use it; whether our companies might use it; and would we trust it? Consensus… not likely.
Apologies for the quality of the sound. We’ve been having
On the call: Dan York, Dameon Welch-Abernathy, Wilhelm Wimmreuter, Jeanette Fisher, Jeb Brilliant, Greg Manto, James BOdy, Phil Wolff and Frank Abrams.
The most exciting location tool I’ve seen in a long long time was the simple tower triangulation that was done in iPhone 1.0. Why? Because it was fast enough. Yes, it wasn’t accurate. But it was fast enough to instantly show me the location of the nearest starbucks, for example. GPS just isn’t that fast. Moreover, I don’t need 3m of precision to find a coffee shop and I don’t have the patience to wait a minute or more for the GPS fix.
So here’s a modest proposal. Why not progressively render location? Give me the near instantaneous cell tower fix when I start a location consuming app. Then, while I’m using the application, acquire the satellite fixes in the background and present me with better precision data if I want it.
GPS is perfect for navigation. But if you just want an instantaneous locate, it’s probably overkill for many applications.
Palringo makes it’s debut in North America today. It’s a cross platform multi-headed IM client for mobile devices that supports all of the popular IM services available. Plus it has a nifty voice chat feature that sounds a lot like the very popular push-t0-talk feature available on some networks. Palringo is available for Windows Mobile, [...]
One of the pieces of commentary on the iPhone 3G launch has been around Apple’s seemingly limitless ability to generate press coverage. So, how effective are they? Yesterday Google released a new version of Google Trends, the tool for measuring search engine and news references for specific terms. Google Trends has high potential as a [...]
