Getting Inside Some of the Web's Finest
In a blog post this morning by Kevin Rose, it appears as though Digg has cut roughly 10% of their staff. Layoffs have been made to around 12 employees, and it was difficult on the entire staff to part with many members. Digg has done nothing but grow over the past few months, so it's surprising to see a reduction in their team. It seems as though there are still many engineering positions open for the platform, and Digg, Inc. is actively still interested in hiring for jobs. … [Read more...]
oDesk is a simple application launched back in 2003 to devise a way for freelancers and remote developers to work on projects with ease. Allowing you to charge on a per-hour basis, oDesk logs how many hours you put in and what work you do. The idea for a freelance board has been around for many years. However, oDesk is really the first company to take charge of the wheel and innovate a product that works well for both freelancers and managers. After creating an account, you can devise an … [Read more...]
For a long, long time have I been looking for a great Plugin for Gmail to help manage my contacts. I send a lot of e-mails to a lot of different people, and it's difficult to sort through all of my mail and attachments without getting lost in the thousands upon thousands of messages. However with the new browser plug-in MailBrowser, it's actually pretty simple. Currently only supported on Firefox and Internet Explorer, the plugin seems to run perfectly and works on mostly all OS' (Windows … [Read more...]
With Microsoft's official release of Office 2010 being pushed out of Beta, I'm excited to see where they plan on going next. I've been running 2010 beta since they released them for download months ago, and I've been more than pleased with all of it! The biggest noticeable change is with Outlook, my favorite e-mail client. I currently run 4 inboxes through Outlook, and all of them are easily organized and simple to keep track of. The newest features in Outlook allow for so much customization … [Read more...]
In a recent blog post entitled simply "Update from Jay", it has been officially announced that Jay Adelson will be stepping down as Digg's CEO after 5 prosperous and amazing years. Jay has done an amazing job as CEO, and I firmly believe Digg wouldn't hold it's current success status today if it wasn't for his ideas and inspiration. Although Jay doesn't state any specific reasons for this choice, he does have virtue and motive to do so. As quoted FTA, "With the new Digg getting ready to … [Read more...]
Out of all the website and Wordpress template sellers out there, Template Monster is clearly the king. Reigning in the business for the past couple of years, the company has grown substantially to offer tens of thousands of templates to it's many customer's. A few months ago they launched a new blog, Template Monster's Blog. It was mostly filled with updates at first, but growing beyond news from the site they also added many articles and tutorials on website design. Recently it has attracted … [Read more...]
As much of a shock as this comes, Darren Rowse has actually sold ProBlogger. In an official press release held on the blog, Darren announces Google had offered to buy the blog and add it to their Blogger line of applications, to which Darren had rightfully accepted. Darren will continue to work with this other blogs, namely Digital Photography School which he has mentioned overall brings in more traffic and money than ProBlogger. Darren's also planning on launching a new project Fools Media, … [Read more...]
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