Several people have lost their jobs after spending too much time on eBay while on the clock. What's too much time? Well, these workers were spending up to two hours everyday on the site. Considering people typically work about 8 hours a day, two hours is a significant amount of time that clearly couldn't be justified. While the Neath Port Talbot Council
It has been a pretty big week in terms of milestones. It's not all that often that sites and applications are able to boast their millionth milestones, and so I thought it would be fun to point out all of the things that have happened in the last 7 days:
- Firefox hit 400 million downloads - This is big news
A recent article posted at News.com talks about the deep interest that scores of investors have in social-networking web sites. There’s no doubt why there is such interest – many of these sites have proven to be extremely successful and experience continuous growth and support from venture firms. Facebook is one such example with a “year-over-year growth of 129 percent.” As they become successful, these social networking sites begin toying with
As the title of this article asks, what’s your time online spent doing? Do you spend more time viewing news and other content than you do emailing and shopping? Do you play games? What is it that you do?
A recent study conducted by Nielsen/NetRatings found that people are now spending a good chunk of their time online reading and viewing content like news (thanks to the increase in blogs and
A word of caution for those hunting for a job: make sure that your online profile is “clean” because employers are using information that they find online to help them determine who they should hire. Not only are they using search engines like Google, they’re also checking social networks like Facebook and MySpace. Would any of you be embarrassed by what employers found on your social network profile whether it
I always love the “Best Website” lists because there’s usually a handful of sites that I haven’t heard of, or paid much attention to. Time magazine has put together their list of the 50 Best Websites of 2007. They explain it as their picks of “what’s new and exciting about the Web right now.”
You can get involved by taking their poll and ranking each of the sites on a scale of 1 to 100. After
MySpace TV has launched. Go take a look for yourself and the first thing you’ll probably notice is that it has a very familiar resemblance of YouTube. Yep, MySpaceTV blatantly copied YouTube in more ways than one. While it makes sense for MySpace to take a video-sharing route, they could’ve at least put some effort into making the site their own.
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