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A review of SimplyHired

SimplyHiredI’ve been using SimplyHired for the past few days, and wanted to share my impressions with you. The site is an aggregator. It pulls job listings from all of the major job sites and filters them for you based on your search criteria. At my latest check, they were indexing over 5,381,261 jobs. That’s a LOT of jobs!

I love the search by zipcode feature. I was able to punch that in, plus a keyword, and boom, I got a listing of all the jobs matching that keyword near my home. Beautiful! What’s also very cool is that the site’s using AJAX, so when you save something, the entire page doesn’t have to refresh.

Without creating an account, I was able to save jobs to look at them later. When I decided to create an account, those same jobs I’d saved showed up under it after I logged on. Nice!

You can rate jobs and put comments next to each, like, “applied 4/24/06”, which is what I did. (Incidentally, I’m looking for a job…) The jobs are then sorted automatically based on your rating, with the highest-rated ones bubbling up to the top.

The design is beautiful and clean. The color scheme is great. The functionality works better than advertised. What can I say, I love it!

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Google Pages, re-launched

Justin Rosenstein, Product Manager and Google Page Creator, posted an entry to the Google Blog a few days ago where he detailed the reason for the application. If my memory serves me right, Google Pages launched a few months ago, but access to it was withdrawn or limited in some way. Perhaps the Google folks thought it needed some more work. Anyway, Justin has just re-launched it, so I assume it’s now ready for public consumption.

Just tried it out, and it does seem to be a really easy way to create web pages, much like the .Mac service – except this is free, and there don’t appear to be any bandwidth limitations, at least none I can find. Then again, there isn’t the tight integration here that one finds on the .Mac service, such as with GarageBand or iPhoto, to allow for one-click publishing of podcasts or photos. Still, it’s a pretty cool service.

Here’s the link to the Google Blog entry, and here’s a link to Google Pages.

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Google Calendar is live!

Google Calendar has officially launched, and TechCrunch has a nice review. Just used it myself, it really is fast, like Gmail. Nice sharing features, ability to have private/public calendar, good stuff! See link for details.

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Local coupons at Zixxo

A website called Zixxo has launched to allow coupon creation and distribution via RSS feeds. Businesses can log on and create coupons, specify local or national distribution, and consumers can access and use them. Nice! See link for details.

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Let's buy some music

TechCrunch has a review of music services currently available, and their side-by-side comparison is pretty good, but they forgot to include eMusic.

My wife and I use eMusic, and we think it’s pretty darn good! I wish they’d included it in their list of reviewed services.

They mentioned AllofMP3 among the services they reviewed, but it is a quasi-legal site – I can’t imagine the artists are getting properly paid for their music at $0.09/song, and I don’t know if they even signed deals with the site. While the price may be tempting, I have a feeling that site will get turned off or made to charge more at some point in the future.

eMusic at least has deals with each of the artists on the site, and they’re completely legitimate. The downloads are fast, the selection is growing, and the music is not hamstrung by silly DRM schemes. Along with the iTunes service, it is what Ligia and I use regularly.

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