Weekend Reader
April 14th, 2007 (11:33am) Anne Zelenka 2 Comments
Tim O’Reilly’s excited about a better way to manage the people information space — O’Reilly reviews Spock, the people search engine to be launched at Web 2.0 Expo next week, praising its disambiguation, tagging, association, and private info management capabilities. Sounds like more reason to keep diligently building your online persona. [O'Reilly Radar]
10 Ways to Procrastinate and Still be Productive — Complements our ideas for productive unproductivity with tips such as “choose a subject you just ‘don’t get’ and start doing research” and “Write a stream of consciousness journal entry about the work you’re avoiding.” [The Micro Business Experiment]
FoundRead launches — GigaOmniMedia, owner of Web Worker Daily, has launched a blog for startup founders. Get advice on topics like whether to patent your innovations and how to get your startup noticed without a PR budget. [FoundRead]
E-Style for Email — Review of David Shipley and Will Schwalbe’s book Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home. Shipley and Schwalbe argue for multiple exclamation points, abbreviations, and emoticons but believe that email is not appropriate for condolences or apologies. See Web Worker Daily’s take on email etiquette in How to Screw Up an Email Negotiation by Email. [The New Yorker]
ODesk Adds Fixed-Price Option to Its Tech Contracting Marketplace — oDesk now competes with eLance and RentACoder by supporting fixed-price contracts in addition to hourly work. [Webware]
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tetsou says: April 15th, 2007 1:04am
Poor email etiquette can land you in all sorts of problems, so much so that I was prompted to write the 7 Deadly Sins of Email. This list was compiled from various sources and was widely read and commented on by the net community. I now use it to teach folks in the corporate world on the pros and cons of writing email.
Hope your readers find this of interest.
Tetsou
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Parag Shah says: April 15th, 2007 3:42am
The concept of a people search engine is a very interesting one. Gathering all relevant information about a person and also providing links to their websites is very powerful indeed. Seems like something that can evolve to be a META social network. It can also be a great tooI for clients who wish to check the references of a web worker. I am definetey looking forward to find out more about this service.
ODesk also seems like a very promising service. Perhaps there will be better quality that other networks like eLance.
Thanks for the links.
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Regards
Parag