PaidInterviews has launched an interesting new employee finding service DEMOFall 08, one that rewards candidates, not employment agencies or finders.
PaidInterviews is billing the idea as a “disruptive model that is poised to transform the hiring process.” Candidates name their asking fee, which is then matched with an employer’s bid fee, and are paid on a […]

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iLovePhotos has launched what is billed as an interesting new way for Mac users to effortlessly manage and share their photos using facial detection technology.




iLovePhotos is a free desktop package for Macs that utilizes facial detection and visual tagging to help people quickly and easily organize, share, […]

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In a play for the SaaS market, Toolgether has unveiled a new online marketplace and platform allowing anyone to use, share, distribute, embed and monetize Web apps and widgets at DEMOFall 08.
The target market for Toolgether is SME’s, who can utilize the Toolgether marketplace to search, discover […]

Microsoft has responded to criticism of its Jerry Seinfield Bill Gates advertising campaign by saying that the ad is a winner, telling the Wall Street Journal “It’s exactly what we were trying to achieve, which was to drive buzz.”
Other experts are supporting the campaign:
“The initial reaction might be on the fence or leaning negative but […]

Just over 4 days are left for your chance to buy a piece of Google history: a Google Chrome comic book, with the profit going to charity.
Bidding is currently at $320 AUD and has attracted 12 bidders. See the full auction details here, or our early post here.
Our thanks to everyone who has linked […]

The latest episode of Things You Can’t Say About The Internet with Steve Hodson, Cyndy Aleo-Carreria and myself was a vintage episode. Before you hit play though, a language warning, but it was perhaps our funnest yet.
From Steve’s notes:
In this episode we have a discussion about the newest entry of Google’s Chrome where […]

Comcast’s decision to implement a 250gb data cap on users continues to drive a ton of angst among American early adopters who believe the sky is falling. The latest round comes from Roku, makers of the Netflix box, who claim that they aren’t afraid of caps, but with others saying how much it will hurt […]

Fosters, the makers of Australia’s joke to the world*, Fosters Beer has sacked an autistic employee over his YouTube content.
Karl Tilcock worked at the Castelmaine Perkins brewery in Brisbane for 12 years supporting a wife and two children, and posts comedy routines to YouTube under the name Austdingo, and his videos include him poking fun […]

Microsoft has been forced to call reporters to explain their new Bill Gates Jerry Seinfeld advertising campaign. According to SFGate.com:
Microsoft officials who phoned reporters Friday said it is indeed a campaign to brand Windows, “the start of a conversation … easily the largest marketing campaign we’ve ever had.”
The good news (in terms of sanity anyway) […]

A New York woman has cultivated a 6-foot (183cm) long zucchini in her backyard.
Apollonia Castitlione grew the giant Long Italian zucchini over summer using nothing more than fertilizer, water and a little TLC.
The zucchini is still growing, but has some time yet to break the world-record 7-foot, 10-inch zucchini grown in India three years ago.

I checked my post office box today to discover a package had arrived from Mountain View CA. Low and behold, some kind person at Google had sent me the official Google Chrome comic book that preceded the release of the Google Chrome browser. Given you can’t FedEx to a post office box, the shipment ended […]

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Children dying in Africa, homeless on the streets of LA, but won’t someone think of the trees! You’ll be pleased to know that Earth First is expressing the sympathies to dead trees in a forest somewhere probably not close to you.