When it comes to events, the organiser has to do a lot for him or her to appeal to the attendees. This means that he or she needs to know of the likes and the dislikes of the attendees. The next thing that the organiser needs to do is to make sure that he or she schedules more time for what the attendees like and minimise on what they do not like. This sounds huge! You are probably thinking that it is almost impossible to please everyone. You are right on one thing, it is hard to please everyone, but you can try to please most people. The one thing that any organiser will be willing to tell you is that he or she wants the same attendee of a previous event to show up for the other event that he or she will organise. It is this state of events that have lead organizers to develop their own software applications for each and every event that they organise and hold, so as to create the best atmosphere for the attendees to benefit.

Let’s take a look at what you, the attendee, would like to have in the event that you are attending. The one thing that will get you going to such events is the need to network. You would really love to meet up with a person who holds the same interests as you and maybe a person you can work with to discover new business opportunities. Every business person understands how important this is. In whatever event they attend, they will be out to make sure that they have effectively interacted with other attendees.

From the above it is clear to see that there is a need that needs to be met if events are to be more successful both to the organiser and to the attendee. This is where bizzabo.com comes in. you are probably thinking of it as genius at this stage, but wait till you hear the rest of the story. It is indeed genius and brings a lot of relief to event organisers and gives smiles to attendees.

Bizzabo.com places itself in the middle of the equation and serves both the organizer and the attendee. It is a free location based mobile application for networking at business events. With this application you, the attendee, can discover new business opportunities and meet ups. It also serves the event organiser in that he or she will engage more effectively through the application.  Bizzabo.com, is an Israeli start-up company Founded by Eran Ben- Shushan, Alon Alroy and Boaz Katz, all alumni of the San Zell Entrepreneurship programme, bizzabo.com promises to be a must have for any event organizer. It is funded by private investors and advised by professionals in the business events category. This is one reason that it is so good.

How does it work? It helps you search for other event attendees. This is usually based on the title, company, industry and other favourable criteria. The application also presents you with a suggestion list that matches you to other attendees based on your profile and interests. For event organisers, they are able to keep track of attendees from previous events. The organiser can also upload events to bizzabo.com’s directory and edit the information about the event at any time, may it be during the event or before the event.

One advantage that the application has is that the event organiser can brand the page with his or her event logo, colour themes and even the up to date agenda. This is one idea that the world is embracing with arms wide open. Another valuable feature that bizzabo.com has to offer is that it allows the organisers and attendees to post special offers on their products or services. From this, it’s easy to conclude that with bizzabo.com at your event, you will generate some significant revenue.

As for my personal opinion on the potential that bizzabo.com has to offer, I must admit that I am in love with the idea. With bizzabo.com the organizer and the attendees stand to gain a lot. This is real- time event networking at its best. Bizzabo.com is certainly pacing the way in giving the attendees what they really need from an event that they attend.

In conclusion, we are sure to see a lot of exploration in event networking. The one thing that we can be sure of is that you, the attendee, will stand to gain a lot.

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With the current rise in cases of copyright infringement, plagiarism and content theft depotcode.com is a service provider that is out to make sure that your work is registered. Registration is just one part; depotcode.com will be out to make sure that your content is protected. When you have your work registered with them, you will be able to prove authorship. It has helped a lot of individuals who are out to register their works as fast as possible instead of going through the country’s rigorous requirements involved in getting protection for your works. This process which is conducted through the country’s copyright office actually takes a lot of time and it is this void that depotcode.com tries to fill. Though this is the case, it does not replace the country’s official registration with the copyright office.

The concept behind the making of depotcode.com was the legal need to provide proof of when exactly some work was created and who did so. This has prevented a lot of people from laying claim to something that they really did not come up with since someone else copied the work and claimed that it was his or hers. Some few years ago, with the country’s copyright office as the only option with which you would protect your work from plagiarism or even theft, many people suffered. Depotcode.com has come out in favour of anyone who has a product that he or she wishes to protect from greedy individuals who will be out to steal the idea for their own benefit.

Currently depotcode.com stands against other similar service providers. Some of these service providers have been in the industry for quite a while. They include Numly, Safe Creative and Myows. These are just but some of the common companies that let you register your documents and works. So what is unique about depotcode.com? Though all these companies provide the same type of service, it is only with depotcode.com that you will find that you don’t need to register for you to register your works. All that you will need to do is to fill in the sign up document with your name, your company and your email details and your work is registered and protected from theft.

This is not the only thing that is unique to depotcode.com. It is only with depotcode.com that you will have a QR code added to your uploaded works. This includes your PDF’s and images. When you want to share out your works with friends or with anyone else in the world it is always important for you to send the copy that is marked with the QR code. With this copy, the person or institution to whom you are sending your work to will be able to confirm whether or not the work actually belongs to you. As you would have guessed, this has discouraged many content thieves from stealing content and using the content for their benefit. It is only through QR code that one is able to do this.

The advantages that depotcode.com has to offer over the other similar service providers go far beyond the uniqueness that its service has to offer. As stated earlier on, it is only with depotcode.com that you will not need an account for you to register your works with them. Similar service providers such as Numly will only register your products if you first of all set up an account with them. Another advantage that depotcode.com has over other competitors is that depotcode.com accepts texts, images, PDF’s and a variety of programming languages. This certainly brings a smile to many.

As for my personal opinion on what the future holds for depotcode.com, all I can say is that there is a lot more that they should do with their system if they indeed want to appeal to a larger group of people. The first thing that comes to mind is the process that is involved in registering your subsequent works. You will need to go through the same tedious exercise of submitting your email address and all necessary information. This certainly doesn’t work for me. I’d rather have an account where all I will need to do is to submit my documents and everything is done. From the names to the email address and of course the QR code. One major aspect that needs to be reviewed is the pricing. The charges are simply too high and to top it all off, you will still have to pay more for your work to be registered with depotcode.com after two years.

The long and short of it is that there is a lot of good in QR code, but for it to get to higher heights there’s a lot that needs to be done.

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One of the biggest headaches organizations face today is the ability to attract the best human resource. Placing a job ad in the mainstream media may result in tens, hundreds or even thousands of applications. Despite such overwhelming response and the tedious screening process, it is very probable that the vast pool of applicants will still not result in the right candidate.

This is why networking is one of the best ways to get a good job since the best jobs are rarely advertised. Now Socialreferral.com seeks to somewhat automate the job networking for the benefit of both the job seekers and the employers.

As a platform developed for businesses seeking to fill staffing positions, Socialreferral.com rides on the social network of a business’ existing employees. For it to work effectively, the first step is for the business to encourage staff to link their online social profiles to Socialreferral.com. Whenever there is a vacancy, employers need only upload the details of the jobs onto Socialreferral.com.

The platform will scan through the social networks of each participating employee to identify social connections that are a close match. Each employee with at least one near-fit social connection is then presented with the list of potential candidates within their own online social circle.

No employee will see the matches from another employee’s circle of online friends unless the two share a connection with the same person. The employee assesses the matches within their online social circle and identifies the candidate(s) that are, in their view, the best fit for the job before they proceed to invite the person(s) to apply for the position.

Socialreferral.com goes beyond conventional networking and actively converts each participating employee into a head hunter. Through Socialreferral.com, businesses can have a smaller pool of applicants to choose the new hire from yet have nearly all applicants being persons with skills that are fairly close to what the job demands. Compare that with a public job ad where persons with closely matching skills are often in the minority and recruiters have to sift through piles of enthusiastic but unqualified candidates.

Does Socialreferral.com have weaknesses? Yes. First, Socialreferral.com is only as effective as the number of participating employees and the size of online social networks. Fewer employees and smaller social circles mean a smaller pool to choose from. The second is employee bias. Since it is the employee who notifies their friend(s) to apply, they may skip an otherwise qualified candidate in favor of a closer friend who they would prefer gets the job.

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The workplace is the environment where we spend most of our active adult life in. We spend more time at work than we do at home. Therefore, employers must do all they can do to to make sure their staff are comfortable and do find ways to enjoy what they are paid to do on a daily basis.

Regardless of age or position, employees want to feel appreciated and this in turn motivates them into delivering ever better results. Successful corporations are driven not just by great managers but even more by motivated, productive teams. Staff motivation is at the heart of a recent startup, Rypple.com.

Rypple.com acts like an in-house social networking site. It makes it possible for team leaders keep track of goals, obtain feedback and track performance. Employees can spur each other on and rally behind departmental goals.

Team leaders can use Rypple to encourage their teams to forge ahead. They can also commend team members for a job well done. Mangers can give recognition, set goals and notify team members of any relevant changes soon as they occur.

Any difficulties & issues are quickly identified and nipped in the bud. Rypple can be used to relay even simple words of encouragement all of which go a long way in keeping staff happy and motivated.

Through this web based application, workplaces suddenly become fun places to be in. Rypple is not strictly all-work. By socializing via Rypple, work colleagues can bond informally even as they keep abreast of each other’s performance. Note that both managers and peers have rights to award a recognition badge to a Rypple user in their organization.

Thanks to Rypple, the traditional, archaic ways of conducting performance reviews can be abandoned for methods that are more in touch with modern times. Employees need not wait for a quarterly, semi-annual or annual performance appraisal. After all, by that time, an employee’s inefficiency may have caused substantial tangible and intangible loss to the organization.

Managers can promptly commend or correct staff via Rypple. Rypple is a particularly useful tool for coaching new recruits. In addition, not all communication via Rypple is necessarily public. In true social networking fashion, team members can privately seek guidance from managers or peers on how best to carry out a specific task.

Rypple.com brings a social networking platform and a gaming environment together in the context of a professional work environment. Today’s employee is already heavily involved in social networks such as Facebook and Twitter – why can’t employers reap this craze and put it to productive use in the workplace?

That being said, employers must tread the fine line of ensuring Rypple.com does not end up so popular that it becomes a distracting addiction just like the conventional social networking sites employers are battling so hard to keep their staff away from during office hours.

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It is safe to say that email has replaced postal mail both at home and the office. Email saves on paper use and one does not have to wait for days or even weeks for mail to arrive. It can take a matter of milliseconds to move from one end of the planet to the other. Though these advantages are welcome, email can also be a persistent distraction to actual productivity. The answer to such distraction lies in a new service – Emailga.me (or the Email Game).

The Email Game imports your mail from other sources and places it all in one central inbox. The interface is structured in a way that enables you to pay attention to just one mail at a time regardless of how many unread mails you have. You don’t get to see the whole of your inbox at a glance as you do in conventional email apps. This ensures you are not distracted by any other mails before you act on that one mail.

The single email window is just one aspect of Emailga.me that makes reading email efficient but also fun. There as an icon that shows you just how unread emails you have to go. There is also a timer that will let you know when you are spending too much time on just one mail. The goal is to trigger quick decisions so you can move on. This action may be delete, reply, archive etc.

For instance, if you choose to reply to an email, a default 3 minutes countdown is automatically launched. Within this time, you are expected to draft a suitable response and be done with it. Of course not every email response can be adequately done in 3 minutes. Thus, Emailga.me allows you to change this limit to suit your requirements.

Emailga.me is one of those applications that come along and you wonder where they have been all along. Research on employee efficiency has consistently shown email to be one of the single biggest distractions to employees. Past solutions have been impractical e.g. turning off email alerts or completely closing the email application throughout the day except in the morning, noon and evening.

Emailga.me does not wish away email since a business can seldom operate without at least some employees being able to continuously their email. Instead, this new app allows users to access their email but breaks down emails into bite sized chunks. That way, email recipients can take quick and decisive action before moving onto other productive activities.

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When you are running a business, your eye is on not only increasing sales but also on reducing your expenses. A business must continuously look for ways in which scarce resources can be utilized to increase profitability. Technology has already demonstrated that many of the things that we considered part and parcel of business overheads are not always necessary. A new service, Sococo.com is pushing the concept of the virtual office to a new level.

In a normal office setup, staff in the same department ordinarily have to be physically present in the same office. With Sococo, staff do not have to be in the same location as their colleagues – rather, everyone is interconnected by a virtual network that mimics a real office environment. That way, employees could be working from the office, home or overseas and still interact with their colleagues as though they are seated next to them.

This ‘proximity’ is achieved not just by chat or voice that is characteristic of technologies such as Skype, but it also uses an interactive graphical user interface that portrays the setup of the virtual office. That way, businesses no longer need to pay for any office space since staff can work from virtually anywhere.

With Sococo’s Team Space product, the users in the same Team Space can share experiences and communicate with one another just like they would face to face. Through the GUI, users can ‘see’ each other, listen to voice messages, get into one on one or group chats, attend virtual meetings and share ideas in real time.

Sococo employs the use of intelligent avatars. The avatar changes in tandem with what the end user is doing at any given time. The avatar covers the basics i.e. you can tell which members are online and those that are not. But it goes further to show you what the person is engaged in at that time e.g. are they typing, chatting, reading or listening to music. Most important for managers is that Sococo.com can identify and show idleness (nil activity).

The virtual conference room is a particularly powerful feature. You can instantly who is gathered in the meeting and even confirm what time they ‘came in’. When in the conference, only participants can hear and contribute to the meeting. Through the Sococo.com GUI, staff can easily tell when a colleague is in a meeting and thus wait for them to ‘exit’ before engaging them on any matter.

Sococo.com recognizes Skype as one of its key competitors for market share. While Sococo.com does present several aspects that are not on Skype, the fact that one has to pay to use it (Skype is free) is likely to be a hurdle for businesses that might consider using it.

Information is power. That is why, for a long time, access to information was always seen as an important driver of enterprise success. But is this completely true? Not anymore. If anything, organizations have now been pushed to the other extreme – sifting through tons of information which eventually grinds operations to a halt.

And it is not just the internet that is churning billions of bytes of information each day. Internal sources such as emails, word processing documents, slide presentations, pdf files and many other forms of digital content are created each day. The disparate, unstructured form of such data normally takes a long time to analyze in order to pick out the information one needs.

Salsadev.com brings method to the madness. The Salsadev technology reads, processes, analyzes and understands any form of unstructured text and can then use the results of this process to perform any one of several actions automatically. Salsadev can be deployed either on premise or on the cloud (a platform-as-a-service model).

Salsadev is based on research around cognitive science. It is developed along the same logic that a child follows when learning language. Using a mix of algebra, cognitive modelling and psychology, Salsadev is modelled after how the human mind creates and represents contextual data.

It is this capability that gives Salsadev the edge over other technologies such as the keyword-centred systems best known for their use by internet search engines. Salsadev has the capacity to synthesize data that is too complex and unstructured for keyword-centred systems to interpret.

The building block of Salsadev is what the creators refer to as a Cognitive Knowledge Base (CKB). The CKB learns the meaning and context of the data. Each CKB is created based on sophisticated techniques in the fields of cognitive modelling, cognitive sciences and data mining. A single CKB is data centric, domain specific and language independent.

There are two forms of monitoring that Salsadev uses to manage and perfect each CKB. The first is relevance monitoring. When the relevance of a data set declines, this automatically triggers the creation of a new CKB. The second is activity monitoring and is a way to continuously improve the logic of the data’s interpretation by keeping track of end user actions.

Salsadev is onto something. At the moment, the technology has targeted legal institutions, public administrations, research organizations and CMS companies. Since the rate of creating enterprise electronic data shows no signs of abetting any time soon, more and more organizations are going to find themselves reeling under tons of data that they find difficult to manage.

When they do, Salsadev might be the tried and tested technology that will be standing outside their door to deliver a solution that will bring order amidst the chaos.

Silk is a dutch Start up who won the Start up Rally organised by the Next Web. Like many apps out there their aim is to make us more efficient and more productive than we are with our current tools. Every single bit of information can be found on the web but it often happens that it’s not in the format we would like it to be, or simply it would require a long process to sort and analyse the Raw Data.

Silk aims to help us find content quicker in a ready to use format and while enabling us to create richer content. They provide a few features that are linked to semantic technology.

the first feature is related to search. Silk manages to gather content from many webpages in order to provide concise answers in different format. The exemple they illustrate is with great websites like Wikipedia or CrunchBase where you can find a lot a valuable information but if you had to had more complexe question or questions missing some key information it will be difficult to quickly end up with the correct result.

For exemple if you want to search the average age of Start-up Founders in between 2000-2010 you would have to go through hundreds of pages writing down the data in excel…a nightmare. What silk does is to understand complexe question with more than one variable in order to be able to index a website like CrunchBase and provide you with tidy graphs and statistics that are ready to use in seconds.

The second feature is content tagging, which we know is very valuable for search engine optimisation but equally important for the readers experience. While writing your document Silk will can the content using complexe semantic technology enabling you to tag relevant information on the fly, this information will only be relevant links but also graphs or statistics.

Silk is now in private beta stage you can request a trial on their website today: http://www.silkapp.com/. How do you think such technology will impact on your day to day business?

The first contact an employer has with it’s candidates is through a short screening of  their CV, the time spend per CV is usually around 10 seconds. And most people are eliminated because they just don’t show the correct and relevant information for the specific job. Ideally you should write a cover letter and a CV personalized for each job opportunity but it’s often unrealistic and people end up by spamming the same cv around. This is even more important for candidates with CVs of multiple pages, different work experience must be linked  to different jobs descriptions. res

Résunate attempts to tackle this problem by using keywords in job description to detect which experiences are more relevant. First it indexes a word format recent CV or your Linkedin account to classify your education and work experience. Then you will need to tweak  the information to make sure everyfield is correct. After that Résunate will generate on the fly a CV, you can just different templates and print it or save it asa PDF.

This is pretty basic and all the CV generators can do these tasks. Where Résunate add value is that by simply copy pasting the Job description it will in a few seconds generate a appropriate CV. Changing a time consuming task into and easy 2 click process.

To conclude , after giving it a try, you can see it’s in its early stages. Few Templates are available and the platform is not totally fluid but my end product (pdf CV) was totally usable. I certainly think that with richer template offers and maybe negotiation with job listing website this can be a successful platform. Give it a try on www.resunate.com

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Whether it is for purposes of computing tax returns, preparing yearend accounts or to help you have better grip of personal or business expenses, recording and keeping track of expenditure is important. But considering the sheer number of receipts the average person piles up in a month or year, it is clear that maintaining order is no mean task. It is not unusual for one to spend hours each month organising and adding up receipts.

Plendi.com is changing how people manage receipts by making the process more efficient. Plendi’s process is simple. First, install the Plendi app on your smart phone (the app is available for iPhone, Android and Blackberry). Use your phone to take a photograph of the receipt. The image is then securely transmitted to Plendi.com servers.

The sooner you can take the photo after the receipt is issued the better – the receipt is still in pristine condition and not a crumpled state as is likely to happen after it is handled for a while. Taking the photo early is also important in safeguarding the record just in case the receipt is lost shortly after.

On receiving the digital image, the back office staff at Plendi manually key in the important fields from the receipt and upload the data by the end of the next business day. The data captured includes date, currency, vendor, net amount, VAT and total amount.

All the information can then be accessed on Plendi.com by the client. The records (including the images) can be exported to Excel and PDF files. With Plendi.com, there is no longer need to worry about lost receipts. Plendi.com stores your records for an indefinite time frame for as long as you are subscribed to the service.

This archive can come in handy during a tax audit, external audit, internal audit or a dispute. Remember that tax authorities in several countries including the US, the UK and Ireland accept receipt images as legitimate supporting documentation for tax returns. The digital records ensure accountants have much less to do and save valuable time – they no longer need to sift through, organise and record tons of paperwork.

Plendi.com automatically converts the currency of the receipts to your home currency thus saving its clients the headache of manual conversion of foreign currency-denominated receipts. Using Plendi can see one significantly reduce their tax bill. For instance, one year’s parking receipts can bump a significant chunk off one’s overall tax obligations.

One of the key areas of concern with Plendi.com will be data accuracy. After all, the data is manually keyed in by humans. Plendi do admit they can make mistakes. However, their recommended course of action in the event of an error might not come across as reassuring – that is, users should use the web interface to correct any such errors that are inconsistent with the receipt image. This may be translated to mean that clients are ultimately responsible for the accuracy of the records.

In order not to appear as though they are absolving themselves from blame for typing errors, Plendi.com would probably create a stronger case for the quality of their output if they could indicate their current error rate (as long as it is impressive). For instance, a 99.8% error rate will give users the confidence that errors are the exception and not the norm.

Punctuality, task coordination and organization are all vital habits for anyone intent on having a productive life. But even the most meticulous person can fall short once in a while. Think about boarding a train on a long journey, taking a nap and eventually missing your stop. What about planning a dinner for friends and family but getting caught off guard by the guests’ arrival? A businessman may miss a crucial appointment simply because the taxi company forgot to send the cab on time.

Geotick is a recently launched smart phone app that promises to ensure you are never late for an appointment, never get caught off guard and never miss your destination. It is a location based application that relays time sensitive, user determined, notifications to the apps users and their peers before the users arrival at a pre defined destination. Geotick uses the GPS capability of the smart phone to trigger a message to one or more people of the app user’s impending arrival.

So for instance, during a dinner event, guests that have the Geotick app would simply configure the app to notify the host once they get within a certain distance of the dinner venue. The long distance traveller that wants to take a nap but is not completely certain of the exact time the bus or train will arrive at their destination can configure the Geotick alarm to ring once they are close to their stop.

At the moment, Geotick is only available for iphone users. The free version has the basic features such as setting the alarm and defining locations. The $2.99 version has extended functionality that includes the ability to send text to a spouse or cab driver as well as customize the audio alarm. iPhone users can use the free version to test the basic functionality of the application before they eventually make the decision to buy.

The Geotick app deals with a problem that has plagued man for generations. Diaries, wrist watches, alarm clocks and phones are all tools that can be used to help one meet their punctuality, coordination and organization goals. While Geotick goes a step further than these other tools by incorporating GPS-triggered alerts, it will probably be an uphill task to get this app widely embraced by the mass market as is envisaged by the $2.99 price tag.

Geotick’s developers may need to incorporate a couple of more capabilities to the app if it is to immediately resonate with the iphone masses. That said, the success of Geotick all boils down to how well the apps owners execute its rollout and respond to the feedback of initial users.

Spam email may be the single biggest and most stubborn problem plaguing the internet today. Various studies have estimated email spam as comprising 78-97% of all email worldwide. One study estimated that about 260 billion spam mails are sent each day. Spam is the reason many internet users are hesitant to publicly share their real email addresses online or to register on a site.

Bouncr.com is a new service that allows internet users to create a temporary email address to mask their real email address. One can then publicly share their Bouncr.com email address without the fear of their real email address being known. Emails to the Bouncr.com email address are automatically forwarded to the user’s real email address.

If the Bouncr.com email account starts being inundated with emails the user is not comfortable with, all they need to do is to cancel the address and the account will be automatically closed. There is nothing that prevents the user from creating a new Bouncr.com email account tagged to the same real email address.

Spam protection has come a long way and many email service providers have achieved significant success in nipping spam in the bud. However, even the best spam protection system cannot guarantee protecting its users from all spam. And closing one’s real email address because of spam is often impractical. Bouncr.com makes closing an account much easier. When faced with unsolicited email, all one needs to do is delete their Bouncr.com email and start over.

Bouncr.com also protects the user’s privacy. Some email addresses are too revealing and may serve as an easy clue for identity thieves. For instance, the email john.peterson@placeofwork.com reveals the name of the email address owner as well as where they work. Using Bouncr.com ensures such information remains hidden.

Bouncr.com is a convenient way to protect email users from unsolicited email. However, it is not the first time that creating an alternative email address has been used to net spam email. Craigslist, the online ad site, creates an email account that lasts the life of the posted advert. The email address forwards to the advertisers real address. Once the advert expires on the site, the email address is automatically retired. The only difference is that Craigslist accounts are restricted for use in its adverts.

There are also numerous free internet email services such as Yahoo Mail, Gmail and Hotmail. Many internet users often create one or more ‘dummy’ email accounts on one of these services with the intention of using them for a specific purpose or for a specific time frame. They would then either abandon the address, request the closure of the account or (where such feature is available) enable forwarding to their real email address.

Bouncr.com’s competitive advantage here is that it automates the process of creating ‘dummy’ email accounts. With Bouncr.com, internet users no longer need to go through the arduous process of creating a new internet email account. All that is required is for them to key in their real email address and a new Bouncr.com email address is created with automatic forwarding to their real email address.

Job Prize is a new website platform that wants to introduce itself in the recruiting market. As we all know network and referals are what recruiting and finding  a job is all about. Either you do it yourself or you use a recruitment agency.

This divides the market into to different groups.

1. Job Seekers – The seeker is a simple person who is looking for the perfect job
2. Prize Hunters – Is what you could call a agent that looks for opportunities and offers them to job seeker.

This is nothing new it is the job agencies do all the time and they are thousands of them. But what this website brings is that it becomes a “crowd-sourced agency” the community is run by itself and every one can have a go, furthermore they have nothing to loose. Everyone can also be both a seeker or a hunter.

For a seeker he has the advantage of benefiting from interesting job opportunities, on the other side the prize hunter can enjoy reward for the jobs he posts. Basically the slogan is “who wouldn’t pay 500 dollars to lend a 75’000 dollars job”.

I’m still waiting to see if it is a success, the main risk is that agencies could easily introduce themselves in there and kind of defeat the purpose of real referral. To be followed

 

Welcome to JobPrize – The Online Job Referral Network.

Cloud is trying to bring back the well know industrial theory that consist of dividing in order to increase efficiency. BUT they claim that anyone/any company could use their service in order to divide task and outsource them ONLINE!.

This Would:

• Decrease Costs
• Increase Efficiency
• Better Quality

What do they offer!

• A workforce (thousands of highly-qualified workers)
• Help in dividing task into simpler one to achieve complexe work done

• I wide variety of workers gives the possibility to cut down hard task significantly.
• Faster results with a worldwide workforce working at all times

• They provide you the service of cutting down everything for you so you can just enjoy the benefits

So basically it takes the idea of the ever so popular www.getafreelancer.com or www.odesk.com and makes it accessible to everyone especially companies who lack of internet knowledge.

I wouldn’t be surprise if they don’t even have a workforce and just re outsource those task on those well-known websites.

But they definitely ease the process of benefiting from those opportunities!

They also list fields where outsourcing is fairly easing ( non creative work mainly fits in that category ).

1. Data Processing
2. Data Entry
3. Image Processing
4. Internet Research
5. Product Merchandising
6. Content Filtering
7. Content Creation

They also offer intresting career opportunities:

http://www.cloudcrowd.com/company/careers

You want to grab some weed from your pusher before going to poker but you are out of cash? Well… There is an app for that!

Steve already warned us that there would be apps for pretty much everything on his apple phone. We have seen applications allowing you to accept credit card payments thanks to your phone already. However, Square also provides a mini card reader that plugs in the earphone socket and lets you swipe credit cards.

This time I predict robots. I mean, look at it. Robots are so cool. Everyone who has seen I Robot or matrix will agree with me. Robots replacing humans are already everywhere, but I think their presence will inevitably increase in the future.

My favorites robots are vending machines. They could sell everything, from metro tickets to cars.

Robots will free us from annoying hand work and they will also do it faster and better. Add artificial intelligence (today, the chess world champion cannot beat a 24$ program) to that, and their future is quite bright.

What robot would you like having?

But it is all still about geek gamerz that seek this gratitude within their group. This could get a lot bigger with the mobile devices, internet everywhere and the social networks. What is we could bound real life and video gaming so tight that Life itself became more challenging and entertaining? What if we could give the perfect excuse to people for showing off on the internet without being jerks that show their muscle on their facebook walls?

Warning: someone is already working on something like that!  see: www.booyah.com (update: apparently they changed the concept of their game, it’s now some kind of monopoly mixed with real world)