Tag: people

  • Nice People and Good People

    How to hire good people instead of nice people Nice people care if you like them; good people care about you. Nice people stretch the truth; good people don’t. If you tell a nice person to do something evil, they might do it because they do not want to upset you; a good person will…

  • Silp

    What is Silp? Silp matches jobs with your skills and your social graph to find the best career opportunities for you. On Silp, you don’t need to search for jobs — your dream job will find you. Silp also matches jobs with the social graph. It provides employers with the tools to identify potential candidates…

  • Starbucks and Square

    Starbucks chose Square. Square handles payments like Starbucks handles coffee. “And that’s something we’ve always believed strongly in building our technology, building our product: is that we can fade the technology away, we can fade the mechanics away so that the people can focus on a very human, natural, personal interaction and a very simple…

  • Better Google

    Giving you a better Google Technology has the power to change people’s lives. But to make a difference, we need to carefully consider what to focus on, and make hard decisions about what we won’t pursue. This enables us to devote more time and resources giving you products you love, and making them better for…

  • Why WhatsApp doesn't sell ads

    WhatsApp: Why we don’t sell ads When we sat down to start our own thing together three years ago we wanted to make something that wasn’t just another ad clearinghouse. We wanted to spend our time building a service people wanted to use because it worked and saved them money and made their lives better…

  • Facebook Acquires Instagram

    That’s right, Facebook acquires Instagram for $1 Billion in cash and stock. Here are some points regarding this acquisition (from what Mark Zuckerberg) wrote: “We plan on keeping features like the ability to post to other social networks, the ability to not share your Instagrams on Facebook if you want, and the ability to have…

  • Randomized Twitter's Homepage Design

    I don’t visit Twitter’s website regularly. I use Twitter from third party applications most of the time. Not sure when Twitter has another new look — the homepage has been changed few times — but when I open Twitter’s homepage, I got some different schemes. Anyway, you probably remember about its major design few months…

  • Google is now indexing Facebook Comments (AJAX/Iframe)

    One reason why people avoid using Javascript or iframe is regarding the search engine optimization. Contents presented in Javascript or iframe is not good for search engine, and Google is one of them. But, recently, there is an update from Google about how Google indexes contents presented using these ways (using AJAX/iframe). Google’s Matt Cutts…