Archive for 2008

If you want social contacts in Brazil, India, Asia and other places outside the US, the social networking place to be is Orkut, Google’s social networking platform.
They’ll now be allowing other 3rd party applications which they expect will make the site more popular.
Read more here.
What fascinates me about this is that smaller home businesses could […]

So that  you won’t think a $4 cup of coffee lets you camp out all day on their wifi, Starbucks hasn’t been offering the service. But now they’re reconsidering letting you have 2 hours of free wi fi. No word whether that will make the coffee go for $6 per cup.
But after two hours, unless […]

When I heard that teleworkers were going to handle your order at the fast food drive in, I thought that was nuts. But the penetration of teleworking into the American economy continues!
From TMC Net:
Employers outsourcing everything from drive-thru orders to ESL lessons.
The next time you’re ordering a burger and fries at your local drive-thru, […]

Social networking is important for employees to share ideas and encourage one another. But the free standing social networks like MySpace, Facebook, etc. aren’t what companies need. Instead they need customized social networking space for their own employees. That’s why Alpine Access with 7,500 teleworkers chose HiveLive to create their own specialized social network.
Here’s a […]

Antone Roundy is an RSS Whiz. He sent me this email so I’ve decided to pass it along.
I’ve been using CaRP to display Amazon.com affiliate ads in my blogs for quite a while, and I’m frequently asked how to display RSS feeds in a WordPress blog. The other day, I was considering posting the […]

Mark Horne, freelance writer and friend asks an important question… could people who work at home do better if they dressed better, even if nobody else were around?
 Now I am a freelance commercial writer. I can dress down as much as I want on most days. Yet I increasingly find I hate being too casual. […]

If you were wondering why Google was going through the trouble of digitizing books for Google Book Search (a great service by the way if you’re looking for books!), the reason is shown below. I don’t know how long it’s been happening (I didn’t see it this morning for instance) but on this book search […]

I got a frantic call the other day because a home based medical transcriptionist got one of those frightening calls.
Unless she got high speed internet in 3 months, she’ll lose her job.
She lives in a rural area however, and all the big telecommunication companies are too busy raking it in from the easy pickings customers.
Here’s […]

You can get paid $10 for every website you’re chosen to review and be paid by Pay Pal.
Here’s how:
The people at Usertesting.com are letting folks sign up to review websites. The great thing about this site is that for $19 you can get a real person to review your site for its usability and customer […]

Here’s a job listing that shows that even using advanced medical transcription equipment with voice recognition, you still need Medical Transcriptionists.
They’re called “Medical Transcription Editors”
Tired of pounding the keyboard? Want to give your wrists and hands a rest? We are hiring MT-Editors with a minimum of 2 years of recent acute care experience […]