by jacobmorgan on October 28, 2008
by Jacob Morgan
Tired of reading about all the company layoffs and depressing news? If so, then you’re probably going to love JobWire, which is a new project launched by RWW. Jobwire is a site that is going to be dedicated to:
“Covering news about NEW jobs that people have been hired for in tech, new media and related industries. At a time of global economic downturn we all know there’s plenty of bad news right now. Other tech news sites are doing a great job covering those stories – on the Jobwire we’re going to cover good news, people getting new jobs.”
In other words somebody is finally stepping up to look at the positive side of things. I think what RWW is going to be a morale booster for individuals and companies in the tech space. In a time when you can’t visit a site without hearing about some sort of mass layoff, we need to hear some positive news, and now we can. RWW is going to do what they can to promote jobs and individuals seeking those jobs. The new site is going to be a great resource for companies and individuals alike.
The site is going to feature around 10-30 new posts a day…yes, that’s a lot! But, it’s a good thing. RWW is also going to feature one of the new hires as a “hire of the day” and they will be providing a blurb explaining why that hire is so important.
The guest editors for the Jobwire include some well known folks in the tech/media space; Financial Times reporter Tom Foremski of SiliconValleyWatcher and media analyst Sam Whitmore of Sam Whitmore’s Media Survey.
Here is the Jobwire crew:
Marshall Kirkpatrick, Doug Coleman, Nate DiNiro and Dionne Fox.
Congrats to RWW!!
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by Michelle Lentz on August 20, 2008
by Michelle Lentz
I discovered PixelPipe this morning via ReadWriteWeb, which is also where I acquired a beta invite (so, thanks RWW!). I love the idea of being able to post photos to multiple sites at once. I tend to use Flickr for all my photos, which makes it hard to share things via Facebook. I only have so much patience for uploading.
PixelPipe lets you pick as many places, or “pipes”, as you want and it will upload your photos to all of those locations. It’s rather speedy as well. I tried it with one photo and it quickly posted it to Twitpic, Flickr, Facebook, 4 Typepad blogs, and bub.blicio.us, which runs on WordPress. (I deleted it from most of those locations however.)
It uploads to your blogs and immediately creates a new post (XYZ via PixelPipe). My preference would be to upload the photo as a draft post to my blogs. I would also like to select which of my pipes the photo will go to – in other words, I might not want to upload the same photos to bub.blicio.us that I do to my Wine Blog.
However, I can certainly see, for now, setting up a couple different Pixelpipe accounts. One that uploads to Flickr and Facebook, for example, and another that uploads to my technology blogs.
Pixelpipe currently supports 33 different photo and video sharing sites. You can upload via a custom email address, directly through Pixelpipe, or use one of their desktop-based tools. These include Mac (including an iPhoto plug-in), Windows, and Linux tools. I downloaded the full Mac application and found it easy to use. In fact, if you’ve ever used the Flickr uploading tool, you’ll find this one remarkably familiar. An iPhone app and a Firefox plug-in are forthcoming.
PixelPipe is a free service that solves a problem most of us now have – how to share our photos with everyone we know.
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