Looking for a Job?

There are a lots of places to search for jobs online these days including:

• SimplyHired - easy to use job search
• HotJobs - Yahoo's job site
• Monster - you've probably heard of Monster
• Indeed - newer site that allows you to filter by salary (for instance, here is an example salary search on computer science and data mining)
• LinkedIn - use your social network to find your next job
• erecruiting - for new college graduates

An interesting approach to finding your next job might be to leverage your social connections to match you with a good employer with needs inline with your skills. Of course, as nice that sounds in theory, I would bet it could be challenging in practice.

Although, I won't be needing a full-time job for another couple years, it is always interesting to see what jobs are available (and what skills are in demand) by quickly searching on your skills and interests.

Freebase

At the SIP Symposium (at Stanford), there were some guys from the Freebase development crew. This was my first exposure to Freebase and I was intrigued with the idea. According to Kurt Bollacker (the Chief Scientist) the reason they were at the symposium was to "get people using our data". I also learned from him that they were VC funded and currently had about 60 developers.

They have built upon the existing data sources, such as Wikipedia, and have added structurally typed data to go along with it. The resulting data repository is then easily accessible via the Freebase API.

It'll be interesting to see what happens with it.

Google Chatback

Google just released a new gadget that will allow people visiting your blog or website to chat with you (via Google Talk). It is like the live chat and call-back buttons that have been available previously. To set it up, all you need to do is add the chatback badge code to your blog. Then, it'll look something like this...