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Steve Jobs to Google: “Don’t Take Apple Employees”!

Another Steve Jobs’s scud emerges from a court document: him asking Eric Schmidt to stop recruiting Apple employees. Another episode of a hating Jobs in war against Google as he was once back in the early days in war against Microsoft. So sad. Source: Search Engine Watch

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5 ThingsThat Will Kill Facebook For Sure.

To go public, Facebook had to show a little bit more personnal material than usual. And by far, the most interesting was the 35 top reasons that could kill the company. Everything can die in this world, remember? So stop breathing because here are the 5 undertakers: 1. We could simply lose users, or fail [...]

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How To Make Your Resume Talk with a QR Code?

Old printed resumes are over. Check this interesting idea using QR codes to make you face talk to the recruiter. :) QR CODE – Content-rich Resume from Victor petit on Vimeo.

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Google Plus Allows Pseudonyms to Avoid Becoming Google Less!

Vic Gundotra, VP Social at Google, announced during the Web 2.0 Summit that the search engine company will enable pseudonyms within Google+. After shutting down pseudonym accounts or calling “clean” users to report them in a perfect USSR style, Google makes now a of coming of age move to save its social newtork Google+ from [...]

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Google Plus Already a Ghost City?

According to a recent Chitika survey, Google+ is drastically loosing traction after a spike in traffic when it went out of closed beta. The service could have lost up to 60% of its fresh new “mainstream” users, returning to the core initial group of believers (essentially tech nerds). If this data is a long run [...]

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Facebook Keeps Tracking You After Logout!

Another episode of Facebook trying to track you even after the logout via a special cookie. Nick Cubrilovic revealed the story on his blog, and now Facebook says the issue is fixed. Fine. Once again, we can observe how silicon valley big guns behave with their users: do anything without asking until someone complains, if [...]

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Facebook F8: How Facebook Is Selling YOU to Advertisers?

Personal $17,5 Billion+ fortune maker Mark Zuckerberg revealed yesterday during the Facebook F8 keynote a few new features of his Facebook product. Timeline and “what you’re consuming online” spies are two of the most efficient ones for the coming months.   Timeline: With this feature, Facebook wants you to show more of your life. In [...]

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Why Klout is Wrong?

Do you know Klout? The self declared standard for influence? It’s a web service that helps you rank based on your online social activities: to position yourself in the influence ladder. You check in with your Twitter, Facebook and now Google+ credentials, and BOOM, you’re rewarded with your influencer score. Justin Bieber hits a decent [...]

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Google Plus Remains a USA Nerd Male Ghetto!

Google+, the social network from Google, remains the place to be when you’re American (or Indian, their IT subcontractors), male, nerd/engineer and have friends like you in there. Leading US nerd culture icons like Robert Scoble can’t stop physically loving it: they feel Google+ is the final social network, above all. Will Google+ really spread [...]

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Is Chewbacca Obsessed With Princess Leia?

Well…seems so! ;)