September 2008

Squawk Box September 25 – Semantifind

September 25, 2008

Host Suzie Dingwall-Williams interviewed guests Bruce Johnson and Scott Montgomerie of Semantifind. Semantifind launched at DEMO.  Their magic? They enhance your existing search engine experience to save you time and deliver more meaningful results. Semantifind eliminates ambiguity, allows you to say things the way you want and helps filter out the noise from your existing [...]

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Squawk Box September 24 – PaidInterviews CEO Jim Weaver

September 24, 2008

Paidinterviews is transforming the traditional recruiting model. Using PaidInterviews, candidates are better able to market themselves by building digital career profiles complete with videos, pictures and work samples. They can also network with other candidates and search the “Watercooler” to find employer ratings created by previous employees. Jobs are uniquely matched to candidates based on the way their ideal job is outlined. Once hired, a candidate is paid their “ask fee” as a success bonus.

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An Evening with Josh Waitzkin: Perfecting your Art of Learning

September 24, 2008

Join us September 25, at 6:15 PM Pacific for an Evening with Josh Waitzkin author of “The Art of Learning” You don’t get to be an eight-time national chess champion and a world martial arts champion without knowing how to learn. Josh Waitzkin talks with us all about how to learn what you need to [...]

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Bell to interfere with GPS?

September 24, 2008

Speculation is running rampant that Bell plans to interfere with GPS on BlackBerry mobile phone devices in the near future.  The rapidy spreading rumour says that in the coming weeks Bell will cause users of free GPS mapping applications (Google maps, or BlackBerry maps, for example) to experience GPS lock times of 2 to 10 [...]

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Email chain letter hits Facebook.

September 24, 2008

Yesterday Paul Brent from the local CTV affiliate dropped by my office to tape an interview with me about identity theft, privacy and online safety.  My view is that these are really two subjects — one is managing your own image online (don’t put drunken pictures of yourself online if you’re worried a future employer [...]

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HelloTXT Hictu!

September 24, 2008

My pal Luca Filigheddu scored a victory for his Hictu! microblogging service yesterday.  Popular cross-posting service HelloTXT is now including Hictu.  HelloTXT lets you update all of your social networks from a single site. Video posting from within HelloTXT is apparently mere weeks away as well. Now, what I’d really like is a service that [...]

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MOBIVOX|PL, the Mobivox developer play.

September 24, 2008

You may recall the August 7th announcement that JAJAH and Mobivox had teamed up to provide a voice driven JAJAH service called JAJAH concierge.  Today Mobivox announces their business model for allowing any company to deploy similar services on the Mobivox platform.  Called MOBIVOX|PL, it’s a voice activated mobile services platform that lets users literally [...]

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9 Simple Rules for Building a World-Class Business

September 23, 2008

Tonight was a new experiment for me.  I’ve never hosted a teleseminar before, but when Heather and Erik Olson asked if I would host their teleseminar 9 Simple Rules for Building a World-Class Business: How to get a Superior "Return on Life", I agreed. Why?  The topic is personally appealing;  the idea that you should [...]

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Squawk Box September 23: Android launches, we weigh in.

September 23, 2008

Today is Google Android day — the day that Google and T-Mobile unveiled the Android smartphone OS to the world. We weigh in. It’s promising, but there are warts as well.

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A little twitter karma

September 23, 2008

A couple of weeks ago one of the routine automated searches I run on Twitter triggered on the term on Calliflower.  A new user named Steve was having a bad experience using our idiosyncratic PIN system.  Calliflower is a little different from every other conferencing system on the market because we assign a unique identity [...]

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