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Best and Worst Places To Work In 2009

by Jason Wilk on December 30, 2008


  • Glassdoor, a site that surveys employees about workplace conditions has issued lists of the 50 best and worst companies of 2009 as rated by the 11,000 employees in its database. While that number is relatively small, the results seem about as accurate as Fortune’s annual 100 Best Companies To Work For issue. General Mills took the top spot overall, and tech companies were not surprisingly mixed in both the good and the bad lists. Google got into the top 10 but eBay and IAC rounded out the bottom 50. I wonder if seriously struggling stock price has anything to do with those working conditions? Thanks to TechCrunch for bolding the tech companies down the list.


Top 20 Best Places To Work 2009

1. General Mills
2. Bain & Company
3. Netflix
4. Adobe
5. Northwestern Mutual
6. Whole Foods
7. Google
8. SAP
9. Continental Airlines
10. NetApp
11. Intuit
12. McKinsey & Company
13. FactSet
14. Boston Consulting
15. Procter & Gamble
16. Caterpillar
17. Genentech
18. CareerBuilder
19. Apple
20. Juniper Networks

5 Worst Places To Work 2009

1. DHL Express (USA)
2. United Airlines
3. Reynolds and Reynolds
4. Farmers Group
5. Gibson Guitar

Other Notable Bottom 50

6. RadioShack
14. Qimonda
15. NCR
27. EDS
29. AT&T Mobility
31. OfficeMax
33. Level 3 Communications
34. Motorola
37. Blockbuster
38. Alcatel-Lucent
43. IAC
44. Cadence Design
46. Circuit City
47. eBay
49. AT&T

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Update: Pirates of the Amazon Plugin Gone After Amazon Takedown Notice

by John Jorgensen on December 5, 2008

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  • UPDATE: Amazon has sent a takedown notice to the Netherlands students that created this plugin, and they’ve complied. The students said it was an “artistic parody” and a “practical experiment on interface design, information access and currently debated issues in media culture.” The plugin can still be found around the web.
  • You know all those Somali pirates who have been hijacking ships on the open seas? Well, now you can play your part by hijacking games, TV shows, movies and mp3s from Amazon’s website thanks to a new Firefox extension.
  • The extension cross-references products on Amazon with Pirate Bay’s torrent database. If the torrent is there, a “Download 4 Free” link will display on the Amazon product’s page.
  • The extension made the Digg front page.
  • This could be the type of thing that might push torrents into the mainstream. Outside of techies, most people my age (20s) and up aren’t frequent BitTorrent users. If they could bypass the search engines and hit a button on Amazon I bet they would be a lot more likely to download a movie.

TorrentFreak, CNET

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A Blast From The Past. Sergey And Larry’s Business Plan For Creating Google

by Jason Wilk on October 9, 2008

  • “In this paper, we present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine which makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext. Google is designed to crawl and index the Web efficiently and produce much more satisfying search results than existing systems. The prototype with a full text and hyperlink database of at least 24 million pages is available at http://google.stanford.edu/”
  • Check out the business plan here. Very interesting how they discuss PageRank early on.

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Twitter Building Up Their Database With Fake Users Twillegal? | tinyCrunch

by Jason Wilk on October 8, 2008

 

  • Twitter’s search engine was either hacked or something is up with their user base. 
  • In a random search for a term ‘What A Day’, 4 results came back with unidentified users displaying the same message ‘What a Day’, posting seconds after each-other. (see image above)
  • We know Twitter has been unstable in the past, but is this Twillegal?

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ShopStyle API Lets Developers Utilize Their Database Of Clothing And Accessories. Why This Was A Questionable Move

by Jason Wilk on October 6, 2008

  • ShopyStyle, which SugarInc acquired last year, is a visual search engine that indexes clothing and accessories across thousands of brands and stores.
  • They previously opened up their API to Instyle and People Magazine, but now is making the databse available for any developer.
  • Why is this important? This will allow sites to use the API to potenitally recognize clothes worn in pictures, television and movies to appeal to high end consumers.
  • Will it work? Many think the limited availability and high prices associated with the appparel worn in these settings will make it a diffuclt business for most

What do you think?

TC

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