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Pitch Your Talent to the Right Audience

You think you’re talented and deserve a great job? Well, that’s not enough. In today’s crowded employment market, it definitely isn’t easy to stand to all potential employers. Here’s your chance to Pitch Your Talent!

Using PitchYourTalent, you could:

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  1. Pitch your talent and make employers come looking for you
  2. Search for talent and hire the right guy for your job!

PitchYourTalent can be one of the most productive ways for people like you to get their next job or hire a suitable candidate. All you have to do is go through a few simple steps to setup your profile and it will be accessible to ALL potential employers or potential candidates (who have internet access) in your region!!! It’s fast, it’s direct and it’s totally awesome.

Benefits

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  • Your profile gets seen by thousands of employers all over the world.
  • It allows you to network with your peers and find opportunities that you will rarely see in newspapers, magazines and online job boards.
  • You could find out information on who views your profile and the keywords that are used to find you.
  • Get 100% control of what you want or and don’t want to disclose.
  • It makes sure that your profile comes up prominently when your name gets searched in Google, Yahoo and MSN.

Does it cost?

  1. You don’t have to pay anything to search.
  2. You can sign up and create your Talent Profile for free.
  3. To list your Talent Profile on PitchYourTalent.com and make it searchable to the world, you will be charged a subscription fee.

How does it work?

It’s an easy 3 step process:

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Step 1: Pitch

  • Job seeker sets up Talent Profile page (highlighting skills, talents, experience and educational information)

Step 2: Search

  • Employer enters a Search query
  • Relevant Talent Profiles show up in the search results
  • Employer browses through the Talent Profiles

Step 3: Connect

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  • Employer clicks on “Contact Talent” on the Talent Profile that he likes
  • Job seeker receives email from the employer through PitchYourTalent

In an earlier post today, I wrote about a website – JobStreet that can help you find jobs in Asia. PitchYourTalent is more like an extension to JobStreet (a service sponsored and currently owned by them).

If you are really in need of a job, then this is a pretty good website to go to. I guess we are in the midst of an era where vanilla job portals don’t work… either you have to be innovative with the working model like this one, or start adding value-added services like the one I talked about in my earlier related post.

By the way, the website currently is offering a complimentary 12-month FREE subscription (for a limited period of time). Click here to Sign up!

Link: PitchYourTalent

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Play games on Playtopia and win cash prizes!

Now play a variety of fun games online on Playtopia.com and win cash prizes. By playing these games you can earn “tokens” in different ways. These token help you win draws and jackpots. However, in order to be able to play the various games and to win prizes, you have to be a registered user.

You could also create a free user and play more than 35 games, such as Solitaire, Yatzy, Whist, Backgammon, Mahjong and many others.

Winning the Jackpot!

  • You can win the various jackpots by buying tickets before the jackpot is drawn.
  • The jackpots are drawn at random times, so the tickets should be bought well in advance.
  • The more tickets you buy, the bigger are your chances of winning!
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Playtopia.com has until today distributed prizes for more than: USD 2,201.19

Earning tokens

  • By playing different games.
  • By writing guestbook messages to other users on Playtopia.

Recommended minimal system requirements

  • 1.5 Ghz processor (Intel eller AMD)
  • 512 MB RAM
  • Microsoft Windows XP
  • Internet Explorer 6.0
  • 1024×768 pixels screen resolution

It’s a fun site to be on. Try it out.

Also, those of you who know, please share with us some other FREE online games.

Link: Playtopia

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Looking for a job? JobStreet can help, even from your mobile!

With all the recent IT layoffs and the numbers still on the rise, this website might just come in handy for some of you out there. JobStreet.com offers a comprehensive suite of interactive recruitment services that will help you find jobs in Asia – India, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Japan, Thailand, and Hong Kong.

More about JobStreet

  • It came into existence in 1995 and since then has very quickly grown to become one of the leading Internet Recruitment websites in the Asia-Pacific.
  • International and local Asian corporations recruit from JobStreet.com’s pool of talent.
  • The recruitment process is managed through their uniquely developed software applications via the Internet.
  • It also offers a comprehensive Recruitment Automation solution, as a hosted service. This helps corporates view Talent Acquisition from a strategic perspective, allowing them to create and manage an ongoing talent pool/pipeline, apart from enabling them to hire faster and cost effectively.

How does it work?

  1. Just choose your location
  2. Use the search options to find out what’s in store for you
  3. You could search based on the Industry, your specialization and preferred location
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Apply for a job using your mobile via SMS!

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India only! Further to their objective of offering a world-class online job search experience, JobStreet also offer Smart capabilities that promise a quicker, faster and instant experience for jobseekers when they want to apply, search and register for jobs.

With this feature, you don’t even need a computer to apply for a job! Here’s how…

  • A jobseeker (already registered with JobStreet.com) can simply
    • Type APPLY on their mobile phone
    • Mention the email ID of a recruiter or an email listed in a newspaper job ad or a career site of a company
    • SMS it to 52622
  • The SMS service will recognize the mobile number as a registered user of JobStreet
  • They will email the resume from JobStreet’s database to the company you applied to
  • This enables a candidate registered on JobStreet.com to apply to any job featured anywhere, anytime!

For instance: If a company XYZ has published a job advertisement and has listed an email id recruiter@xyz.com for job responses, then a candidate needs to just key in APPLY recruiter@xyz.com on their mobile phones and SMS it to 52622.

JobStreet blog offers a tip:

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“Many career experts agree that the best time to look for a new job is while you are still comfortable in your old one. If you are starting to feel unchallenged in your present position, you may be ready for a promotion to the next level. If there aren’t many career advancement opportunities where you work, the best next job may be waiting for you elsewhere. Nowadays, it’s up to you to take control of your professional future and make sure that you are progressing wisely down the right career path.”

So, what are you waiting for? Start your search today!

Link: JobStreet

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RssBirthday never lets you forget important anniversaries!

How often do you forget birthdays and anniversaries? Please tell me “very often” because then I will not be the only one here feeling guilty about missing an old friend’s birthday. I am terrible at remembering dates. I keep going to my Orkut account, only to check the upcoming birthdays. But how much can you trust that? Not everyone would have added their birthdays to their profiles. Moreover, not everyone I know and want to remember the anniversaries of are on social networking sites!

I have now realized (better late than never!) that it wouldn’t really hurt to use a helping hand. With RssBirthday, remembering dates has become a lot easier.

What is RssBirthday?

RssBirthday is a FREE service that notifies you of the birthdays and anniversaries (or similar events) that you wish to be reminded about. After filling in the dates and subscribing it to your own RSS feed, you will get notified in your RSS reader, as and when that date approaches.

An easy 3-step process to get started:

Nothing out-of-the-box that you wouldn’t have heard of earlier, but certainly very useful. There are many other reminder services online like ‘Memo to me’, ‘BigDates’, ‘Birthday-Reminders’, ‘Birthday Alarm’, etc, but I like RssBirthday because of its RSS feature.

Well, it doesn’t really matter which service you’re using… the main purpose is not to let yourself forget.

With all these and more, you don’t have to feel guilty or embarrassed anymore for having forgotten an anniversary or a special event. Now, when a friend wishes you ‘happy birthday’ sharp at 12 midnight, enjoy the conversation, instead of thinking at the back of your head “Damn! When was his???”

Link: RssBirthday

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Free Online Backup for home users by Mozy

A friend of mine always preached about the importance of taking backups. He regularly used to take backups of his data on an external hard disk, only to find out that one day it too crashed! Since then, he has been burning CDs every weekend to accomplish the back up tasks. Oh well… someone as lazy as I am would never have done that.

I tried to browse through to search for any cheap and reliable online solution that could help solve the problem. To my delight, I came across this cool service by Mozy. I read about the user reviews and pretty much liked it. Here is brief note on what this service is all about and how it can help you sleep peacefully.

About Mozy

With more than 750,000 users and 20,000 business customers, Mozy is one of the leaders in online data backup for consumers and businesses. It offers a simple, automatic and secure service for backing up your photos, music, outlook files and other important data safely backed up at a secured, remote location over the Internet. For home users, the service provides a free 2GB back up space.

Features

  • Simple to set up
  • Supports open/locked files
  • Schedules automatic backups
  • Performs backups automatically in the background, thus not effecting your work
  • Supports version control for your data
  • Encrypts all your data before transferring them to storage
  • Supports backs up of your Outlook files, thus protecting even your emails
  • Only backs up files that have been added or changed in subsequent backups, making the entire process take very less time
  • Restoring the backup files is easy. Though home users are limited to only one restore in the queue at a time.
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Security

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The most important feature for any online backup provider has to be its security. Mozy wins it here too. Mozi uses 128-bit SSL encryption for your data during the transmission and for storage at their servers. This means the moment any data leaves your computer, it will be encrypted by Mozy so that sniffers can not read your data. The data is then stored at Mozy using 448-bit Blowfish encryption. Which means, even if it is hacked it will not be readable. So it’s well protected when it’s stored as well as, when the data is being transferred from your computer.

How does it work?

  1. Sign up for MozyHome free account. Click here
  2. Download and install the software
  3. Follow the step-by-step instructions guide for the installation process
  4. Select the types of files or selected folders you want to back up

Support

For home users, Mozy currently supports Windows 2000, XP (32 and 64 bit), and Vista (32 and 64 bit), as well as Mac OS X 10.4 and higher.

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For Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008, Windows Home Server, and Mac OS Server 10.4 and higher, business users need to upgrade to the paid MozyPro version.

Other online backup services

  • Backblaze
  • Carbonite
  • Elephant Drive
  • IBackup
  • IDrive
  • Box.net
  • HP Upline

I think Mozy is great for lazy people like me and also for friends who keep preaching about backups!

What are you doing for your backups? Burning DVDs or CDs? Or taking backups on an external hard disk? In case you are already using Mozy or any of the other online backup service, do share your experience.

Links: MozyHome, Registration for Free MozyHome

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TwiShitter: The shitty version of Twitter?

Take the social media tool- Twitter and mix it with some gross toilet humor… what do you get? You get TwiShitter! According to a recent independent study reluctantly conducted by an anonymous research firm says that over 25 % of all tweets are sent while you are sitting on your toilet seat.

“Tweets are twooted via twitter whilst the twitterer is on the twoilet” 😛

Yaeeks!!!!!!

What’s TwiShitter?

  • First ever fully transparent micro blogging service
  • Based on the concept of progression from reading a newspaper in the bathroom to TwiShitter conversations from the pot.

Funny testimonials from some of the ‘famous’ people we’ve known:

“People want to know how I manage to shed all my weight. The secret? I TwiShitter a few times a day. Really effective!”

– Oprah Winfrey

“Michelle and I TwiShitter all the time from the White House”

– Barack Obama

“My incontinence doesn’t get in the way of my twishitting.”

– Larry King

Need I say more? It’s gross but funny. Check it out for yourself –Click here for more.

Link: TwiShitter

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Poor Age Verification System allow kids to buy Knives, Alcohol, Adult DVDs Online!

Age verification system on the Web… hmm… how effective do you think it is? Do you think that by just making a customer ‘tick a box’ on a website is enough to verify their age?

A recent report tells us that thorough online age verification checks were not being done, making it very easy for children to buy weapons like big knives, alcohol, and other violent video games online.

Recently, when a test was carried out to check how effective the age verification processes on various websites were, the results were staggering.

Here is an example of a supervised test done by the Greenwich Council:

  1. A 16 year old bought a pre-paid credit card.
  2. Went online to buy age-restricted goods with it.
  3. The credit card was registered with the teenager’s REAL date of birth and address.
  4. Yet, the teenager managed to buy knives, alcohol beverages, and Adult DVDs and games from 12 separate online retailers.
  5. Only three websites asked the teenager to confirm his age at the time of purchase which the minor obviously got round by lying.
  6. The other sites would simply make the user accept a declaration stating that the buyer was of the right age to make the purchase of the products. (That’s very convenient, isn’t it?)

BBC reports that an Online Purchasing of Goods and Services (Age Verification) Bill has been proposed by Baroness Massey that calls for “robust” checking systems to be used by any site selling age-restricted goods.

According to this bill, the age-checking systems would have to be used if any one product was being sold out of the 20 listed, like:

  • Knives
  • Alcohol
  • Tobacco products
  • Age-restricted video games
  • Age-restricted VCDs and DVDs
  • Solvents
  • Spray paints, etc.

The lack of a strong process just goes to show how dangerously minors are exposed to the Internet these days. It’s high time we go further than just making them tick a box or simply expect to get away with the website’s so-called “disclaimer”. Don’t you think?

(Source: bbc)

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Create interactive charts online with Chartle.net

It’s often a hassle to create a chart online, that’s why Chartle.net came into existence.

The site’s statistics indicate that over 1 billion charts, maps, plots and diagrams are found in print publications each year, however, only 40 million online. This huge difference in numbers sure reflects the complexity to create and publish charts online.

Chartle.net allows you to:

  1. Create interactive charts online
  2. Minimize complexities
  3. Keep the process as simple as possible
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The images or the charts that you create online are solely yours and you can you them in any way you wish to – for your business reports, presentations, websites, blogs and even print documents.

A variety of charts to choose from:

You could create a variety of charts like:

  • Bar and column charts

  • Pie charts

  • Line and area charts

  • Scatter plots, Venn diagrams and Radar charts

  • Static maps

  • Interactive maps

  • Dynamic timeline charts and Motion charts

  • Org charts and other fun charts like Google-o-meter and gauge

Upcoming features on Chartle:

  1. New Ajax/Flash user interface
  2. Easier embedding
  3. Business friendly
  4. Social network compatibility and more . . .

Do I have to Register?

No need. You could use Chartle’s services even without registering. Create a chart online and embed it wherever and however you want. Simple!

Get started. Create your own chart.

Link: Chartle.net

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Now “Kidlandia” helps you create fantasy maps for kids

He had been living in a fantasy world of maps and monsters since he was a very little boy. He is Brian Backus – the founder of Kidlandia, an illustrator and entrepreneur. Brian also produced educational multimedia titles for Disney and Voyager.

The concept of Kidlandia came out in 2004 where Brian wanted to give kids a boost of confidence, control, and self-worth. Kidlandia is a web destination where parents and children can create personalized cartoon maps telling a child’s very own fantasy story.

Kidlandia helps in

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  1. Creating personalized maps of imaginary kingdoms for children
  2. Friendly monsters as companions
  3. Creating cities, islands, and other features of the kingdoms named after family and friends so that they feel more connected.
  4. Engaging kids and motivating them to understand maps, and accelerate reading skills.

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The Cost

  1. You could create a map for free.
  2. Once you have created it online, it can be ordered in prints.
  3. Range: $39.95 for a small sized scroll to almost $180 for a framed, larger sized, high quality map.
  4. Maps can be printed on scrolls, which are easier to carry around, or on canvas that is framed and can be hung.

Shortcomings

  1. No integration with the web to create a virtual world for kids.
  2. Not very interactive
  3. Webkinz and Disney’s Club Penguin create virtual worlds for children to immerse themselves in a fantasy land, and have become increasingly popular.

Link: Kidlandia

(Source: Kidlandia | TechCrunch)

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BookArmy – Never read a bad book again!

This post is for all those who love reading books but often end up running out of topics. Now use BookArmy for free tips and recommendations on the kind of books you should be reading based on your very own taste.

BookArmy is a social networking website that will connect you to a range of books and authors for you to choose from, minimizing your chances of ending up reading a really bad one again.

What is BookArmy?

It is the place to:

  1. Discuss books with other readers and decide what to read next
  2. Write reviews for different books
  3. Build reading lists of your own choice
  4. Share your bookshelf with others
  5. Get the best book recommendations fitting your taste
  6. Read books together with your friends and family
  7. Make direct contact with authors
  8. See what star rating they give the books
  9. Browse the reading lists of different people
  10. Ask authors questions about their own writing, and even recommend titles to them!

If you wish to register…

Apart from other things, you could also:

  • Create a virtual bookshelf of your favorite books
  • Write and share your own reviews
  • Participate in the group discussions and events
  • Browse books by the network’s most read, most popular, and by author.

If you don’t wish to register…

You could still:

  • Browse through book reviews
  • Look at author pages
  • Check out the videos
  • Read over the group and author-led discussions.

If you have more questions in mind, click here.

Link: BookArmy