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Archives for July 2009

The Second Interview

July 8, 2009 by Matt Perman

If you are one of the many people out there looking for a job, the NonProfit Times has a good article on how to be effective in the second interview.

(What about the first interview? I guess they skipped that one. A good book for job-seekers that covers the first interview and a lot more is What Color Is Your Parachute? 2009: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers.)

Filed Under: Job Finding

Gladwell Reviews Free

July 8, 2009 by Matt Perman

Malcolm Gladwell reviews Chris Anderson’s new book Free: The Future of a Radical Price. (Chris Anderson is the editor of Wired and the author of the 2006 best-seller The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More.)

(HT: JT)

Filed Under: Business, New Economy

Google Announces Its Own OS

July 8, 2009 by Matt Perman

Google has announced that it will be creating its own operating system based on its web browser, Chrome. Fast company summarizes:

The OS will be open source, lightweight and have “speed, simplicity and security” at its core. The lightweight and simple aspects are clear from the fact that the OS is going to be initially targeted at netbooks–it’s absolutely a separate project from Android.

….

As if that’s not enough, the way Google appears to be re-thinking an OS is completely new. Chrome OS is designed to be instant-on, with a minimal interface and most of the user experience will happen via web interactions. Chrome will run within a “new windowing system” superimposed on a Linux kernel, and the whole thing will work like it’s in a browser. Consequently “all web-based applications will automatically work” so developers will supposedly be able to write software that runs on Chrome, and in browsers on Windows, OS X and Linux machines.

Filed Under: Technology

10 Stunning (and Useful) Stats About Twitter

July 7, 2009 by Matt Perman

This was a helpful article by Rohit Bhargava summarizing “10 standout conclusions” from a recent analytics report on Twitter by the media analytics company Sysomos.

One interesting fact: Tuesday is the best day to tweet something.

Filed Under: Social Media, Web Strategy

Apple Stores Now Fixing Cracked iPhone Screens In-House

July 7, 2009 by Matt Perman

If you’ve ever had the misfortune, as I have, of dropping your iPhone on concrete, here is some good news from the Infinite Loop blog:

An iPhone falls to the ground in slow motion and makes its first impact on a corner. You watch as the cracks branch out over the screen like a spiderweb. If it hasn’t happened to you, it has happened to someone you know—and now, Apple can fix it on the spot at one of its retail locations.

Jim Dalrymple at The Loop has confirmed that Apple retail stores have begun performing this in-house repair with what amounts to a big suction cup in the back. The machine separates the broken glass from the rest of your precious iPhone, letting the technician install a shiny new one.

The cost will be $199, and it is not covered under warranty or Apple Care.

Filed Under: Technology

25 Must-Have iPhone Apps

July 6, 2009 by Matt Perman

Fast Company has a good overview of 25 highly useful (and/or interesting) iPhone apps.

Filed Under: Technology

Get up Early or Stay Up Late?

July 3, 2009 by Matt Perman

What’s more effective — getting up early or staying up late? Or both?

Filed Under: Daily Planning

The Common Denominator of Success

July 3, 2009 by Matt Perman

From Stephen Covey and Rebecca Merrill’s book First Things First:

The common denominator of success is not hard work, astute human relations, or luck, although all are important. It is putting first things first.

Great news. Except that that among all the things they listed (and all the other things they could have listed), that’s the hardest to do.

Filed Under: a Productivity Philosophy

If There's Always Room for Jello, There's Always Time for Learning

July 1, 2009 by Matt Perman

From Seth Godin:

This is one of the great cultural touchstone slogans of our era. A culture where there’s so much to eat we need to try to find a food that we can eat even if we’re stuffed.

Often, we’ll decide that something is full, stuffed, untouchable but then some Jello shows up, and suddenly there’s room.

Think about your schedule… is there room for an emergency, an SEC investigation, a server crash? If you took a day off because of the flu, is your business going to go bankrupt? Probably not.

So, if there’s time for an emergency (Jello), why isn’t there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?

Filed Under: 1 - Productivity

Mac Snow Leopard Update

July 1, 2009 by Matt Perman

Here are the enhancements and refinements that are coming with Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

Filed Under: Technology

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