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Layoff Phenomenon: The Sayonara Email

Layoffs suck. I'm sure I could phrase it more delicately, but -- to use one of the overused similes of 2008 -- that's like putting lipstick on a pig. And one of the worst parts about losing your job this way is saying good-bye.How ...READ»

How the Holiday Season Can Boost Your Career

It's the most wonderful time of the year, so the song says, but that's no guarantee for people who are looking for a new job or worried about the viability of their current one.That's why it's critical to take advantage of the great ...READ»

Get Ahead by Giving Thanks

If you want to succeed in life and at work (and who doesn't?), make sure you use these two words often: "thank you." They can help you in ways that you may never expect.   Giving thanks is a big theme right now (duh!). But the ...READ»

TechWatch: CitySearch Knows Where You Live

The restaurant-review site is already a go-to guide for anyone looking to try a new place to eat or find a certain business. Now the company is trying a new place itself: your neighborhood. That's right -- yours.READ»

Office Gossip: The Pros and Cons

Office gossip is irresistible. Most of us find it entertaining in a perverse way, especially when it involves somebody we don't like. And in a time of great uncertainty and anxiety -- like the time we're in now -- gossip is hard to avoid.READ»

Unemployment Report: Some Positive News

  The Bureau of Labor Statistics' unemployment report for October caused a big stir last week. The rate jumped to 6.5 percent from 6.1 percent in September. This is reportedly the highest national unemployment figure in 14 ...READ»

The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0

In the ever-evolving world of Web 2.0, women have often been pioneers, redefining the way we interact online. We tracked down the most influential of these.READ»

Most Influential Women in Web 2.0

We've heard the stats before -- only a quarter of those involved in computer and mathematical occupations are women. And yet, in the ever-evolving world of Web 2.0, women have often been pioneers, redefining the way we interact online. We tracked down the most influential of these. Our list wasn't chosen by star power, nor by career altitude. Rather, we feature the biggest innovators.READ»

• The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0
• Marissa Mayer: The 2008 Fast 50
• Gina Bianchini: Ning's Infinite Ambition
• Arianna Huffington: The Big Tease
• Sexist, Sexist and More Sexist: Digg Responds to Fast Company's Women in Web 2.0
• Why Sexist/Offensive Comments Online Should Not Be Tolerated
• Digg Bans Users for Hate Speech In Response to Fast Company's Women in Web 2.0
• The Most Influential Women in Technology

How's Your Emergency Fund?

Living in California, I have grown used to the idea of keeping an "emergency kit" in the event of an earthquake. It makes sense to have water, canned food, flashlights, spare clothes and cash on hand to carry you through a ...READ»

Why is Yahoo Not Buying Back Its Stock?

In a recent Fortune article, Yi-Wyn Yen suggested that Yahoo's management should announce a major buyback the way Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard did. Yi-Wyn Yen quoted Argues Canaccord Adams equity analyst Colin Gillis as saying ...READ»

Wasting Time on the Job

A new Salary.com survey reveals that nearly 3 in 4 workers admit to wasting time at work. But don't we all? Specifically, 73% of respondents spend part of their workday on activities that aren't work-related, like personal email, ...READ»

Best-Paying Seasonal Job: Santa?

Many Americans were upset earlier this week that a mall Santa had been fired without cause, but outcry over the incident has reportedly forced Tysons Corner Center, one of the biggest malls in Washington, D.C. area, to reverse ...READ»

Put Some Risk into Your Job

"What are you doing outside your comfort zone?" It's a great question, one that Arianna Huffington posed to her friends at a swanky party a few years back, according to a profile in the New Yorker magazine. The ...READ»

Tech Watch: Ballmer Says Microsoft Should Buy Yahoo; New Dell Desktops; Kill Switch on Google's Phone

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer suggested that his company may buy Yahoo. Yahoo's stock rose with the speculation.READ»

Microsoft’s Leader in Web Apps: Meet Dr. Flakenstein

Strange things are going on in the lab of Gary Flake. Flake started Microsoft's Live Labs, a rapid-development Web team that exists outside of any specific product group in the company. His team is looking to bring innovative Web applications to the public (you can thank him for Photosynth). Can he make Microsoft come alive? READ»

• Microsoft Puts Its Head in the Cloud
• Can Alex Bogusky help Microsoft Beat Apple?
• Microsoft's Ad Campaigns: An Overview
• Apple vs. Microsoft -- Who is Winning the Epic Battle

YouTube May Finally Make Money

It’s been years since YouTube became the jewel in Google’s [GOOG] crown in terms of usership, but it’s never made the company a dime. Now it seems the search giant is figuring out effective ways to monetize their video site, ...READ»

Get Paid To Use Microsoft Live Search!

Microsoft [MSFT] seems to be in salvage mode this quarter, first with its controversial Seinfeld ads and "Mojave" project trying to reclaim users for Windows Vista, and now with a new strategy to grow Live Search. Live ...READ»

Yahoo Floats New Homepage

Yahoo [YHOO] is, by most metrics, the most frequented website on the Internet. Conscious that more and more online activity is shifting into the realm of social networks, blogs, and other what-have-yous, the company is debuting a ...READ»

Worst Trading Day Since 9/11, Tech Stocks Take Cover

The foundering of several bedrock financial companies helped create a perfect storm today, spurring to one of the worst trading days in nearly a decade. The tech sector didn't escape the catastrophe, but fared more buoyantly than ...READ»

Not so Fast Buckaroo: T. Boone Loses Big With Yahoo

On Tuesday, I wrote a post on T. Boone Pickens, the oil colossus-gone-softy, who is currently waging a ubiquitous, multi-million-dollar ad campaign to convince Americans to stop guzzling gasoline like it’s Happy Hour at TGI ...READ»

Facebook Connect + Microsoft = Business Model For Facebook?

Facebook is still hunting for a business model and reading Om Malik's Why Facebook Connect Matters & Why It Will Win post got me thinking: If Facebook is going to make it even easier for people to create content, searching ...READ»

Microsoft Buys Natural Language Search Technology

This morning Microsoft [NASDAQ:MSFT] confirmed rumors that it will be acquring Powerset, a Bay Area-based company specializing in natural language Web search. According to press materials, Redmond's strategy is to incorporate ...READ»

UnWeb 2.0

With so much attention on Web 2.0 and online social networking, some online communities are bringing back the old fashioned face-to-face mixer. Entrepreneur Andrew Warner has leveraged his Mixergy.com invitation site and built a ...READ»

Jerry Yang Hatred Reaching Hysterical Levels

It's been a few days since Microsoft reportedly walked away for good from discussions with Yahoo, and the vitriol being hurled at Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is really something to behold. There certainly are facts to back it up, but ...READ»

Laura Betterly on Google Phishing

A client of ours sent over an e-mail from Google, one that said one of their ads were disapproved and there was a link to login and fix the problem. The only thing was, the notice wasn't from Google, and it went to a phishing site, ...READ»