Tag: WORK

As the shift towards online applications grows strong, so do the conferences and events that promote working online. The Office 2.0 conference is just around the corner in San Francisco, September 5-7th 2007. The event is aimed at the discovery of future online productivity and collaboration efforts brings together leaders and visionaries in the field to discuss innovative online services, and ...

Think coffee helps you stay productive through the day while you bang away at your keyboard? Ok, so it does. But how would you feel if you knew the exact amounts of coffee or caffeine it would take in order to stop your heart? The online "death by caffeine" tool calculates your weight with your beverage of choice and serves up some stats on how many cups it will take in order for you to drop dead. ...

When you signed on for your job, you likely signed a hefty stack of paperwork as well. Do you remember signing something called a non-compete agreement? It's a fairly standard doc which limits your ability to strike out on your own in your employer's line of business, and also may limit your ability to switch jobs and work for a competitor. A California court has ruled that Non-Compete agreements ...

Salary.com put out a study saying that most of you don't deserve the salary you're being paid. OK, that's not what it says, but it does suggest that the average worker wastes 1.7 hours out of an 8.5 hour day. What qualifies as waste? Chatting with coworkers, doing personal business during work hours, and oh yeah, personal internet surfing tops the list with 34 percent of survey respondents saying ...

In a day and age where everything from YouTube to Pownce are vying for both our free and shouldn't-be-free time, it's great to see a company like Remember the Milk figuring out an ingenious way to help keep our daily tasks organized while we're goofing off or micro-blogging with Twitter. On the company's blog today, RTM announced not only that they have a Twitter account of their own, but that you ...

There are many task-list applications out there, but not many with the impressive feature set that Toodledo has. Its deceptive simplicity of task entry using inline editing via AJAX makes for lightning fast tasking and better productivity, while providing integration with Google Calendar, Google Personal Homepage, Firefox, and IMified. One of the best features of Toodledo is the distinction ...

Isn't everyone in the Web 2.0 blog-o-sphere starting a job board? JobCoin takes just moments to set up and get running, and provides website owners an extremely easy solution to jumping on the bandwagon starting your own job board . Site owners set their job ad rate, and JobCoin skims 30% off the top for providing their unique platform. JobCoin doesn't recommend charging for postings unless you ...

Want to work like Bill Gates? As has been widely circulated around the interweb, the world's most technologically advanced human has walked us all through his workflow. Unfortunately for us mortals, he's using a bunch of bloated, pricey MS-branded tools. So I took his tools, found free alternatives, and reconfigured his workflow to be a little cheaper. There's nothing I can do about hardware ...