Sometimes you get fired. Before you get hired. That’s the subject of a recent article on CNN.com, titled “How social media can hurt your career.” In it, gory details of how job seekers ruin their chances of gainful employment by prematurely posting unflattering status updates and sending Tweets that have led to rescinded job offers,…
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Hiring the Internet goes Mobile
Some of our particularly sharp-eyed readers may have noticed that we’ve just upgraded our blog. After years of being hosted as part of the WordPress.com community of blogs, we’ve decided to make the move to the freedom afforded by self-hosting. Our main reason for making the switch is so that we can make use of…
More Global Internet Statistics Coming Your Way
StatCounter recently (march 3rd, 2009) launched a new “GlobalStats” site, making all of their aggregated internet usage stats available for public consumption. This is not the first of its kind, but StatCounter’s contribution is a good one. Statistics on internet usage consistently rate among the highest read posts on HiringTheInternet and are often searched for. …
Style.com Adds Juice to Apple's iPhone With Couture and More
Invitation to New York Fashion Week get lost in the mail? Ours too. But that doesn’t mean you can’t get your fishtail-train fix. Thanks to Style.com, the Spring ’09 ready-to-wear collections of Charles Nolan, Diane Von Furstenberg, Preen and 14 other designers are now available via an application made exclusively for iPhone and iPod Touch….
How to Protect Your Business from Copyright Infringement
Pictured: The logo of Apple Corps Ltd. (left), and the logo of Apple, Inc. (right). Poor Steve Jobs. The ardent Beatles fan must have been a little tormented by his company’s decades-long trademark battle with Apple Corps, the rock band’s holding company. The dispute and its many particulars were finally settled as late as 2007,…
News Wrap-Up: Online Media Partnerships, Quarter Reports, and How Much People Love the iPhone
This July, we’re seeing several different web-related trends. First, one of the few things that’s hotter than the weather is the iPhone, and by association, mobile web. Second, at the end of the quarter, some large online/tech companies suffer from disappointing financial reports while others continue flourishing. And lastly, many of these media giants are…
Design: More is less?
This video has been around for a while, but it’s worth revisiting: Microsoft designs the iPod package The funny thing is, all of the MS additions make sense in one way or another. Since most companies don’t have the luxury of an iconic brand like Apple, a little more visual exposition would probably be in…
