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How Practices from Library and information Science Transfer to Sourcing

*** From Libraries to Recruiting Research: How Practices from Library and information Science Transfer to Sourcing . by: Justin Sivey, Research Associate, The Teldar Group My journey from the Library and Information Science world to that of the so...


29% of Internet Users Have Bought Things From Spam Email?? Say It Aint So!

Security company Marshal reports that their latest survey found 29% of respondents willing to admit that they have purchased something from a spam e-mail. While that number seems pretty questionable, PCMag's Appscout points to a related survey ...


Warhammer Online (WAR) Beta NDA lifted

Well, the day of reckoning is almost upon us. Another sign of the impending WAR-o-calypse is the lifting of the Beta NDA by Mythic, effective immediately. I am expecting truly massive onslaught of coverage in the following hours and days. Which i...


Scenes from SourceCon 2007 (part 2)

Oh, what a time we had! Registration Day at SourceCon from Jim Stroud on Vimeo. Related PostsScenes from SourceCon 2007 (part 1)SOURCECON - PHOTOS - Poker Tournament for CharitySourceCon2008 - Its Official! They’re bringing sexy backI hear...


The Unity Express

A gay British Obama volunteer hopes to survive a Texas gun range while an Atlanta Clinton delegate looks forward to lots of happy hours despite relying on a cramped chemical toilet. Sounds like a road trip to me. Here’s the video from the Un...


Feed.Informer Relaunches Its All-in-one RSS Toolbox

There is an infinite variety of things you can do with RSS feeds and a substantial number of those things can be done with Feed.Informer, which was formerly known as Feed Digest and just relaunched today. This super useful service was acquired i...


3jam Launches Twitter SMS Service

When Twitter announced they were killing SMS for anyone located outside the U.S., Canada, or India for financial reasons, many Twitter SMS users were upset as they had come to rely on that aspect of the service to send and receive tweets. However,...


Who Needs a Beta? Apple Extends MobileMe Subscriptions Another 60 Days

Apple once again had to accept defeat and has announced that it will extend all subscriptions to its bug-ridden MobileMe service for yet another 60 days. This move comes after the company already gave every subscriber an extra 30 days after the bo...


Defining the Role and Maximizing the Value of A Sourcer

*** Digging for Hidden Treasure: Defining the Role and Maximizing the Value of A Researcher/Sourcer . by: Alicia L. Scott About four years ago, I didn’t even know the search/staffing/recruiting industry existed. I had moved to Atlanta in se...


NewsCred, a Credible News Dashboard Opens to the Public

NewsCred garnered quite a bit of attention in its initial private beta launch where ReadWriteWeb was considered by its users to be one of the most credible news sources to read. With less than 20% of readers really believing what their news sourc...


Google Sites Now Home For Spammers

Google Sites, the Google platform for document sharing and collaboration, has been dubbed "SharePoint Light" by many members of the tech community. However, the platform might be getting a new name soon, and one that won't be so nice. Apparently, ...


Angels in Atlanta

The good folks over at StartupLounge recently had Sig Mosley and Charlie Paparelli, two of the cornerstones of Atlanta angel investing on the show. One (and there are many others) of my key takeaways from the chatter that has been happening over t...


Sponsor Announcement: DEMOfall 08 Agenda

The conference agenda for DEMOfall 08 has been announced. ReadWriteWeb is one of the media partners for DEMOfall 08, which is on September 7-9 in San Diego. There are 70 companies presenting and they fall into the following broad categories: Movin...


Yet another cool use for the Eye-Fi

I haven’t written much about the Eye-Fi card, mostly because all the basic things (geotagging, automatic uploads, etc.) have been covered ad nauseum. Today, though, I think I found the coolest use for the card, so far. I inherited a great, ...


What Three Web Apps Excite You Most?

One of our favorite Australians, Lachlan Hardy, twittered an interesting question today: What are the three things online that are exciting you most? Lachlan was asked this question as part of a newspaper article in the Sydney Morning Herald. His ...


Yahoo! Opens Buzz Submissions to All - But is It Democratic?

Yahoo! Buzz, the social news service that launched in February and delivered giant piles of traffic to the lucky few websites that were indexed by the site, is tonight opening up to submissions from any site across the web. We warned that Buzz co...