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The web work revolution is changing the way people are employed and how employees think about employers: An increasing number of people are working as freelancers, and employees are switching jobs far more rapidly than they have in the past. How, then, do we migrate the established “rules of work” to this new scenario? How do we ensure that everyone has the same advocacy, the same protection from abusive employers that traditional employees have? And how can employers make sure that they attract and retain the best talent?Continue
Earlier today we published an analysis of the top traffic drivers in social media, based on data from Web analytics company Woopra. The biggest traffic driver was StumbleUpon (51%), followed by Digg (30%), Hacker News (12%) and Reddit (5%). Surprisingly, tech news community Slashdot was not in the list of top referrers. In fact, according to Woopra CEO John Pozadzides, Slashdot "drives close to 0% of traffic to the sites Woopra measures." (emphasis ours)Continue
Here are some interesting posts from around the ‘Net to catch up with over the weekend:Continue
In this article we take a closer look at the nature of drop-down navigation menus, analyze situations in which they should or should not be used, discuss various implementations and finally showcase a couple of bad and good examples of such menus.
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It's been four months since we first got a preview of online music service MOG's mobile offerings for Android and iPhone and now the waiting is finally over. Like most any new app, it has a few bugs and a few features missing (like multitasking and fast app switching for iOS 4) that we hope to see with future updates, but otherwise proves to be a solid entry into mobile, cloud-based music apps.Continue
How many times have you worked from a coffee shop or from home? Ten years ago that would have been unimaginable, both technically and culturally. Now things are changing fast and it’s workers driving the change, not executive management teams. On the morning of July 28, we are gathering a group of about 75 entrepreneurs, executives and investors at our San Francisco office to discuss “The Future of Work” at the latest GigaOM Bunker Session.Continue
Old Spice's social media campaign exploded late this week and, unsurprisingly, what readers really wanted to know about was