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I happened to be at Instagram’s old offices (164 S. Park) yesterday when the Facebook acquisition went down.
I snapped this crappy pic because I thought it was cool that Instagram, Twitter and GetSatisfaction (social CRM on the rise ) all did their first work here.
[This is a guest-post from Brian Kerr]
Everyone has seen job postings looking for great multitaskers. If you are below the age of 35, you will probably happily admit that you multitask better than most, and much better than those of your parents’ generation.
Author Brian Kerr is a San Francisco-based sales marketing professional who recently quit his job and teaches tennis in his spare time.
The problem is that you don’t. Continue reading
[Guest Blogger Mike Harding is the co-founder of re.vu, a radically better visual resume. You can follow Mike on Twitter @mah1.]
Conventional wisdom says that a picture is worth 1,000 words. But is that really true? And what bearing does that have on your search for great talent or your desire to land an awesome gig?
Let’s take a look at a couple of examples to see if we can shed a little light on these questions.The first example concerns the current constellation of satellites orbiting planet Earth. I could describe it, or I could just show you. Below is a partial list of satellites from wikipedia:
How cool is this traffic cop? I thought it was fake at first, but now I think it’s real:
click Traffic Cop Dancing Like Michael Jackson] if you can’t see the embedded video in this post Continue reading
Clever business cards from naming guru Anthony Shore (he named Blackwire, Scamper, Lytro, Lyric, meeVee & many more products) .
He shows 3 different sets of everyday products and what they look like without any name on them:
Fascinating news broke this weekend when security firm Imperva out of Redwood City outlined a report called “The Anatomy of an Anonymous Attack” (outlining details of how the “Anonymous” hactivist group operated in one unnamed attack last year in The Anatomy of an Anonymous Attack.
Alleged YouTube recruiting video for Anonymous attack on the Vatican.
We at Ongig found it very interesting that in the same week Fast Company listed Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple as the four most innovative companies, two of those listed made front page headlines relating to privacy concerns. There is no doubt that these four companies have literally changed the way people live their lives on a daily basis. They have not just transformed the tech industry, but changed the way humans interact with their friends, how they make purchases, find information, etc.
Big Brother Google?
The Wall Street Journal made a troubling discovery that Google had hacked together a way to bypass the security measures built into Apple’s Safari browser, allowing them to track user actions for people who had explicitly restricted such tracking within their browser. Continue reading
Somewhere between 12% and 42% of résumés contain a lie, according to such sources as Morgan & Banks, ResumeDoctor and ADP.
ADP once did 2.6 Million background checks and found that 44% lied about work histories, 41% lied about education and 23% falsified credentials or licenses. Continue reading
By the time you read this, game developer Double Fine Productions in San Francisco will likely have passed the 50,000 investor mark on Kickstarter for funding its next point and click adventure game.
Stats are amazing:
[This is a guest-post from Brian Kerr]
It was the start of October and I was stuck commuting to work in traffic for 1 hour both ways. Oh yes, and I was working 8am to 6pm…this meant I woke up at 6am and got home at 7pm if I was lucky.
