I’m leaving to go to Peloponisos, the south part of Greek mainland, I really need some time off.

I will not be able to have any connection to the Internet during my vacations so do not be surprised if comments do not show up, they may be held in the moderation queue…

See you in a couple of weeks!

Much like I bookmark web pages I find interesting, I thought it would be nice to bookmark specific audio content, podcasts, songs, interviews I come accross. What’s more, I found that there is an easy way to transform this list of bookmarks to a podcast!

I just bookmark MP3 URLs using del.icio.us, then set up a feed using feedburner where I enabled “SmartCast” features. So, here is my “PodSelections” podcast!

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[http://feeds.feedburner.com/PodSelections]

Visacast is one of the most interesting tools I’ve seen around for some time. It allows you to “split” an AAC file (alternative to MP3 for podcasts) to chapters. Each chapter has its own photo and URL link. iTunes allows you to jump to different sections in such a file and (I think) so does an iPod (photo or color?). Autoring is really easy, just drag’n'drop your photos, then set the time they will appear as you listen.

Awsome! I’ll let you know how it works on iPod color as soon as I get mine

Dimitris changed the default pagerank icons, so that he gets a numeric representation of pagerank. Dimitris Giannitsaros - Blog: Google toolbar code.

I’ve been thinking a lot since I posted yesterday on Yahoo! HotJobs crawler. Does it make sense to have a CV microformat [1]?

What most recruiting engines do is that they ask you to enter your resume, your personal info. So, they gather information on people looking for a job. The thing is there are so many of them. They are also geographicaly targeted (even if they do not admit it). The other thing is there are a lot of people that may not be looking for a job, but they might be interested if a good offer appeared. An other issue has to do with part-time small-project HR needs with very specific needs. How do you locate the one person you need just for a couple of weeks?

A “CV microformat” would make the whole process so much easier if embraced by search engines. Anyone having a personal web page could present their CV in this human-readable-machine-friendly format. Search engines could easily parse and aggregate this information. Integrating this microformat in blogger.com and bloging engines like wordpress, Yahoo! and other on-line services could make hundreds of thousands of CVs available to anyone interested!

Even better we could introduce a similar HR-request-microformat. Instead of just posting a job opening in plain text companies could use a microformat that would make the job of engines like HotJob Crawler much more interesting.

Well? What do you think?

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[1] more on microformats can be found at microformats.org

From Yahoo! Search blog:

So here’s the scoop… Much like My Yahoo! started knocking down walls a couple years ago by inviting anyone with an RSS feed to the aggregation party, HotJobs is using Yahoo! Search to do something quite similar for on-line job listings. They’re pulling in jobs from around the Internet: company web sites, local job listings, specialized job boards, and so on.

I’d like to see the oposite: a CV microformat? This would allow companies to look for people matching their criteria. Just give people a standard micro format to publish their CV!

Especially good reading for anyone interested in hacking GoogleMaps by Ryan MacCarthy: Integrating Google Maps into MetroFreeFi.com

Wired Magazine Issue 13.07 has “REMIX NOW! The rise of Cut & Paste Culture” as its main theme. Of course it’s all about remixing music and movie scenes and corporate logos…

Then I realized: Hackers are also part of the “Cut & Paste Culture”. They cut ‘n’ paste code all the time. It’s all about the freedom to reuse -music, ideas, programs, algorithms, photos.

What if we defined “The Right to Reuse” as a fundumental human right?

Regular visitors of this blog know that I am the developer of g-metrics.com. It is an interesting idea: a script makes use of Google WEB APIs to keep track of the number of results Google returns for a query. The results are stored in a database and are available to visitors. For example, look how “podcasting” turned hot again after Apple’s announcement a couple of days ago that iTunes support podcasting. Registered users can add their queries to the system.

The thing is, I have no time to support and make g-metrics.com what it should have been. I have a long list of future enhancements, like the use of tags to organize a user’s “watchlist” or the “monthly report by email” that will send a report on how each user’s queries changed during the last 1month/3months/6months/1year period (this last one has been ready for a couple of months but I did not have the time for proper testing). I also intended to develop more advanced tools to allow data mining since this is quite an interesting data set, or maybe sell the full data aquired during the 1 year+ of operation to anyone interested in such things for a fee.

BUT, I have no time to do all this. So I consider the option of selling the whole site, together with data (of course I will let registered users know, in case the want to delete their account).

How do you sell a site like this? Do you think ebay is the right place? Is there a better way?

Nice reading: Entrepreneurs, angels, and the cost of launch (@ signal vs. noise)