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How would you like to take your dog to work... every day of the week? (woof!)
For you dog-owners out there, we've just rolled out Dog-Friendly job search, with some help from our friends at Dogster. Now using Simply Hired you can search for jobs at dog-friendly companies all over the country, and find a job where you can bring your best friend to the office. Get the inside scoop on our press page... down boy!
SimplyHired: the world's largest search engine for jobs, er... dogs.
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okay, so maybe Web 2.0 has jumped the shark. and maybe it's more useful as a warm, fuzzy meme than a cold, hard definition.
but lately i've been reading a bunch of bloggers and writers all climbing up on their soapbox to tell us why Web 2.0 is:
- a bunch of overly-broad technobabble nonsense
- just another 1999 bubble that's going to end very, very badly
- hype for the supposedly smart, by the undoubtedly ignorant
and to all of these nay-sayers and self-professed industry experts i say... thank you.
thank you. thank you. thank you.
thank you for continuing to blog, write, and otherwise complain so regularly about an industry trend you despise so greatly, but which you enjoy talking about no end. for those of us who aspire to be a 'Web 2.0 company', we're loving all the PR and traffic you're sending our way. please keep up the trash-talk, wouldja?
so to celebrate all the "feel goodness" of the Web 2.0 movement, i've created a top 10 list in honor of another ashamed-to-enjoy-it-and-still-do pop culture trend, namely Disco. without further ado, i bring you...
The Top 10 Reasons Why Web 2.0 is Like Disco:
#1: Feels great, but don't want any pictures caught doing it.
#2: Nobody quite sure what it is, but everyone wants to try.
#3: First learned how to do it at [foo | bar | summer] camp.
#4: Lots of parties, alcohol, and women with big hair.
#5: Can fool most people if you can just do [ajax | the hustle].
#6: More about having fun than doing something useful.
#7: Open source, free love, & fashion from the 70's.
#8: People are remixing it all the time.
#9: More popular it gets, more people trash it, more popular it gets.
and last but not least:
#10: Done best when you don't give a damn what anyone else thinks.
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Well folks we're only a few days into 2006, but already we've got plenty of fodder for our sister SimplyFired.com site. While some people were celebrating the beginning of a new year, other less fortunate souls were beginning to look for a new job. So much for happy holidays...
Among the ranks of the recently unemployed are six NFL coaches, none of whom had a very happy 2005 to look back upon. The most notable of these ex-coaches has to be Mike Tice, formerly of the Minnesota Vikings. Tice's year was full of fumbles & setbacks -- most of them off the gridiron. So what did Vikings owner Zygi Wolf leave in the coach's stocking at the end of the season? You guessed it -- a big lump of black coal, and a pink slip. Happy New Year, Mike: you're fired.
In honor of Tice's early retirement, our SimplyFired.com site has decided to make him the first recipient of our "Firing of the Week" award. But to make it a little more fun for the rest of you, we're also announcing an online scavenger hunt to help Tice find a new job. We've created the perfect job listing on our site for the ex-coach, and anyone who discovers it will be entered in a contest to win a new Apple iPod Nano.
To enter the hunt, try searching for a job using a few key words related to Mike's former job: football, superbowl, or even... ahem... boat tour. Good luck finding it, and good luck to Mike Tice in finding a new job in 2006. He's gonna need it.
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