Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

LinkedIn recently had it’s IPO and miraculously it kept going up even after the IPO price had been increased several times.  This seemed to have surprised some onlookers and doomsayers will talk of another ‘tech bubble’.  I don’t think that is likely to happen again as too many people learned too many lessons, however greed [...]

I’ve written extensively about online reputations, social networks, and the dangers of electronic communication. Alas some people are still just plain stupid and it is starting to cost them. I’m not stupid, naive maybe, but not stupid. I Googled myself the other day and noticed that two of the top ten results were social networks [...]

So one of my Google Alerts I created turned up a link to a video in Veoh. Veoh is very similar to YouTube but with some features from MySpace/Friendster thrown in. It also has some elements that reminded me of my brief experimentation with BitTorrent. Like YouTube, Veoh allows you to upload videos, comment on [...]

As always I’ve written about this before, but seeing as how I just got invited to be ‘friends’ with my sister at Hi5 I thought I’d write further. I don’t know how I got invited to be in Hi5 it was either someone in my football/hockey pool or one of my MBA classmates. Heidi was [...]

This post is too long, too rambling, and too out of date. Go read Eric Shannon’s guide on “how to land a job at a great company” instead or go read this collection of advice for jobseekers. Old Information Besides Monster.com and LinkedIn.com which I’ve already written about a bunch there are a lot of [...]