Archive for July 9th, 2008

Has Google Jumped The Shark?

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

There is a tipping point in technology where a company goes too far and signals the end of things as we know them. In TV terms this is called ‘jumping the shark‘, but it’s been appropriated into all avenues of life including technology. An example in the first dot-com bubble might be any [...]

Recruiters, the diving rod of web technology.

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

It occurred to me as I was speaking with a recruiter I’ve known for nearly a decade, that whenever new technologies come out - recruiters are one of the first of the business early adopters.  Let me clarify - this is different than consumer early adopters, these are BUSINESS early adopters.  Not the gadget geeks [...]