Tiwtter for Recruiting ??

Hiring!! The first thing you would do would be to go onto a Job Board. But Job Board's might just become a thing of the past, as one company is using Twitter to recruit people for Jobs.

In February 2009, Twitter had about 7.1 million users. It was a big growth from the last year. Some of the companies found this growth rate a great opportunity to recruit people for jobs.

In the recent news, we saw that two people from a digital advertising agency Organic said that they were using Twitter for their Job posting. He went on to say that "Once we have an opening that might be a fit for a Twitter friend, rather than making a cold call to a stranger, we can make a “warm tweet.”

Another important benefit is that there are no time constraints,and thus you can tweet a candidate at any point of time without disturbing their busy schedule.Thus making it very convenient.


To add to this Twitter is free unlike many Job Boards.:)

So lets "Tweet" away, and find the right candidate....

Screen Sharing with Skype!!

Skype the popular VOIP , just released its new beta version for Windows and this version includes Skype's screen sharing feature. Skype's screen sharing features are pretty basic and allow users to either share the full screen or select a part of the screen they want to share. The image of the screen is great.But in order to share a screen, a voice call has to be initiated, which might not always be what you really want to do.

Skype's new version has also added additional support for visually impaired users who use screen reading software, as well as birthday reminders that will alert you when it's one of your contacts' birthdays.


Screen Sharing via Skype was already there in the Mac version a long time ago. Now with this facility even in Windows, Skype will be able to allow screen sharing between Mac and Windows users as long as they are using Skype.

Topsy - Search Engine

In my earlier blog I was mentioning about the growing popularity of social networking sites. Among all these social networking sites Twitter is gaining importance. The people who are on Twitter will agree with me that Twitter's search engine,is not one of the best.

To solve this problem comes Topsy. Before you get any ideas, Topsy is a search engine that only searches tweets. Unlike Twitter's search , Topsy doesnt just show you what everyone has been retweeting or just repeating about a topic.

It searches the links posted by Twitter users, and how often they were retweeted. By counting the links and how often they’re retweeted, Topsy also grades users. Those who get retweeted often have more influence over the search results than those who retweet more often,Topsy can even break down what’s happening in the search result by the hour, day, week, month or all them.

Topsy listens to the conversations taking place all the time on the living, social web. In the world of Twitter, Blogs, Flickr, Digg and many such communities people use them to share reviews, opinions , messages and have discussions about many things. Topsy indexes those things . Topsy results are the things people link to, when they're talking about your search terms.

Topsy is not a threat to Google, but it is definitely a very useful search engine for Twitter. The founders of Topsy are Vipul Ved Prakash, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh,Gary Iwatani and Justin Foutts.


Take a look at the demo Topsy

Change in Work Culture - Advent of Social Networking Sites

Today, Social Networking and instant messaging, are becoming more and more popular. It has started replacing the standard business call and the client handshake.

While e-mail is still the leading technology tool . The usage of text messaging, instant messaging and social networking are becoming very popular with white collar workers under 35 years of age.

According to a recent survey by Directions Research Inc, in the United States,in the 21st century,because of the leap in new technology and with shifting demographics of workforce the traditional way of business would rapidly change and more business will be conducted using emerging communications technologies and social networking platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin.

The technologies that people preferred to use in their private lives will become the technologies people want to use at work. The survey found that nearly one in three such employees report that they use these technologies at work daily.


So what are u waiting for ?? get yourself onto one of the Social Networking sites and network away..:)

Google's threat in Mobile Search

The Android mobile OS (is a software platform for mobile devices), was created by Google,because it wanted its search engine to remain relevant as many people are going into mobile computing. But currently Google is facing a threat from no other search engines but from i phone apps.

Now we know that typing on a smart phone is just not that fast as it is on the keyboard.Pointing , scrolling and selecting is much easier and quicker. Thus many things that you would use Google on your computer you would end up using an app on your i phone.

Some examples:

> If you want to look for restaurant instead of going to Google, you could use the Yelp i phone app, which would be faster and easier instead of going and typing into Google.
> If you want to read the news instead of using Google News and Techmeme, on the i Phone you can go straight to news sites with strong i Phone apps or pages, such as AP News, Reuters, New York Times, Wall Street Journal.

These examples point to one of the main reasons why mobile apps prove to be better than mobile search. When you use mobile search apart from the painful typing you are not sure whether the stuff you click on in search results will be viewable on your Smartphone. On the contrary , when you use a mobile app or a site designed for that Smartphone you feel more confident that the search result would be quicker and viewable.

Tech Recovery - Coming Soon!!!

Finally some optimistic news, in the gloom that we are currently going through. At Microsoft's 13th annual CEO summit,which was attended by more than 100 top business leaders.

Microsoft's chairman Bill gates and its CEO Steve Ballmer said that tech sector will be able to recover from the current global recession and bringing new business and challenges which would be rewarding like never before.

Gates went one to say that "The drug companies will get back in high productivity mode" he also mentioned that the we are just at the start of the software, IT revolution.

Steve Ballmer also expressed faith in the Internet and its power to drive the business he said ""Some people probably think the Internet revolution is in the second half of the game. But I tell you, we are coming into halftime. The degree of change that will continue to come as essentially businesses and IT departments embrace the Internet, it's unbelievable."

Due to global recession Microsoft was also hit and last month it indicated a drop in sales figures. To cut its cost they laid off almost 5,000 employees worldwide.

Microsoft is optimistic and looking at a bright future since they have a lot of products lined up for release end of this year and next year, some of which are Windows 8, Office 2010, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Microsoft Exchange 2010..

Lets wish Microsoft all the best!!!

Twitter - How is it going to generate revenues ??

How will Twitter generate its revenues? is one question on people's mind these days. But at a Reuters Global Technology Summit, Biz Stone one of the co- founders of Twitter said that they wouldn't be generating revenues from advertisements, he further went on to add that the other co founders Evan Williams and Jack Dorsey, are developing a revenue model.

It would be interesting to see what kind of revenue model twitter comes out with.
So i guess we just need to wait and watch what it would be. Currently they are operating on the interest earned from the US$55 million in venture capital the company has received.