Twitter Search Hack
Over the last few days I’ve had trouble getting Twitter search to work for me. Here’s a hack that does work:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=+KEYWORD+near:CITY+within:25mi
Replace “KEYWORD” with the word of your choice and “CITY” with the city name of your choice. The results will be Tweets and their associated profiles within 25 miles of that city. Change the distance [...]
Salary Negotiation Need To Knows
In talking to a candidates I’ve noticed that some people are very reluctant to disclose their salary parameters. This can make for a really bad hangup for both parties later in the process. Here are a the need to know details about salary negotiation.
First, if you are dealing with a staffing agency you will have [...]
Twitter Protected Updates Hackable
Have you ever imagined that Twitter was a secure method of communication? Guess what, it isn’t. Several sites are pointing this out now, after someone else published an exploit that allows you to reveal Twitter users’ protected updates.
Here is a demonstration of the exploit.z
This just goes to show that if you don’t want others to [...]
Attack of the Clones?
I’m intrigued by the lengths that some companies will go to to keep their employees excited about coming into work. Take CustomInk’s Dress Like Your Supervisor Day.
What does your company do?
Beyond Interview Questions
I was reminded of one of my first internship assignments today when I read a post on The Daily WTF titled ‘The Receptionist Test’. Everyone talks about being told to make coffee as the experience to expect during an internship. My first task was to call the technology vendor and have them replace the printer [...]
Site Updates
The look, feel and navigation of Jobmatchbox.com has been updated. The companies section has been removed temporarily. If you have any thoughts on the new format or feature requests send a note to email@jobmatchbox.com.
Online Ad Buys Should Be Easier
It occured to me earlier, while I was having a conversation with the human sales team from a company with online ad inventory (that they is for sale), that it should be easy to make online ad buys. Instead, it is time consuming regardless of whether you choose to make your online ad buys through [...]
Investment Insights from DC Angels & VC’s
Today’s article in the post titled ‘Crisis Mode: Less Ventured, Investors Stick With Start-Ups They Know’ by Kim Hart does a good overall job of capturing sentiment from DC area angel and VC funds. It covers the good and the the bad, but also points to some optimism as well:
“”There’s been a lot of great [...]
The Coming Social Graph Backlash
We’ve all been partying like it’s 1999 on the social web scene. Along the way we’ve associated ourselves with some people who we don’t know and now that we’ve got more information than ever about ourselves online opportunists are beginning to take advantage of the situation. I’ve been using LinkedIn for close to a decade [...]
Call for Panelist
The DC ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) is looking for a panelist for their December speaker’s panel on the DC Job Market. At this point, someone with knowledge of the government contracting (i.e. someone from Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, etc.) is being sought after.
Here is a topic summary:
“The Washington, DC area has a [...]
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