Filed under: Business, Fun, Internet, Video, Social Software

Admit it: all your life you’ve coasted through because of your overwhelming good looks. But how is that going to help you in a job search when they want you to send in a paper resume with no pic whatsoever?

Enter VideoJobShop, a site where employers and job seekers can post videos on the web. For employers, this is a opportunity to advertise the benefits of being an employee of their company. For job seekers, this is your opportunity to display your beautiful mug to prospective employers, in real web 2.0 style.

VideoJobShop isn’t only a place to post video resumes (though of course you can do that if you wish). Maybe you looking for a dancing job, and have a few customized moves to show off. Well, here’s your chance. Shoot and upload your video, and watch the requests come flooding in.

We checked out a lot of the videos from prospective employers (which seems to make up the majority of the videos on the site). They ranged wildly in quality and production value, from someone speaking in front of an on the internet cam to highly polished commercials.

If you’re in the market for a job or an employee, VideoJobShop provides an interesting means to those ends.

[via Mashable]

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Filed under: Budgets, Debt

Oprah Winfrey is giving away digital copies of Suze Orman’s book, Women & Money, but the deal ends tonight at 7pm Central…. So hurry on over! The book is the real deal without any gimmicks. It is a PDF of the whole book, but the terms of the download say you’re not granted to share, copy, or forward your copy of the book.

Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny includes a five month plan Suze has crafted to help “save yourself.” What Suze wants you to do, is to basically educate yourself on the most critical parts of being financially responsible, and she gives you action steps to move toward that. Suze states simplicity is the key, so the plan is not complicated.

The book has gotten great reviews, and its focus on women is necessary. Women approach money differently than men, so Suze thought it was the right time to address just women in educating them on money. If you don’t get to this offer in time for your free download, you can still pick it up on Amazon.com.

Tracy L. Coenen, CPA, MBA, CFE performs fraud examinations and financial investigations for her company Sequence Inc. Forensic Record-keeping, and is the author of Essentials of Corporate Fraud.

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Filed under: Budgets, Debt

Oprah Winfrey is giving away digital copies of Suze Orman’s book, Women & Money, but the deal ends tonight at 7pm Central…. So hurry on over! The book is the real deal without any gimmicks. It is a PDF of the whole book, but the terms of the download say you’re not allowed to share, copy, or forward your copy of the book.

Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny includes a five month plan Suze has crafted to help “save yourself.” What Suze wants you to do, is to basically educate yourself on the most critical parts of being financially responsible, and she gives you action steps to move toward that. Suze says simplicity is the key, so the plan isn’t complicated.

The book has gotten great reviews, and its focus on women is necessary. Women approach money differently than men, so Suze thought it was the right time to address just women in educating them on money. If you don’t get to this offer in time for your free download, you can still pick it up on Amazon.com.

Tracy L. Coenen, CPA, MBA, CFE performs fraud examinations and financial investigations for her company Sequence Inc. Forensic Bookkeeping, and is the author of Essentials of Corporate Fraud.

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Filed under: College, Debt

With the credit market tighter than it’s been in years, industry experts are predicting that student loans will be more pricey and harder to get for students looking to pay for the fall 2008 semester.

According (subscription required) to the Wall Street Journal, “Some observers are convinced that if lenders dependent on asset-backed securities leave the market, huge banks with other sources of capital will step in and fill the void, especially for loans guaranteed by the federal government, which accounted for more than three-quarters of the $77 billion that students borrowed for the 2006-07 academic year.”

But students and their parents should look at a tightening of the student loan market as a good time to reassess priorities and think about alternatives means of paying for college or cutting the costs of education. For a long time, there has been a wide discrepancy in the lending market. Students have been allowed, and often encouraged, to borrow far more money to finance their educations than is necessary or intelligent.

Unfortunately, this has led to some poor decisions: people taking out large amounts of loans to attend private colleges when they could have gone to public colleges with no loans. Other students live in more expensive off-campus housing or lead relatively lavish lifestyles while they accrue massive amounts of student loan debt.

The credit crisis is a good time to get real. Loans can be an OK way to pay for college but there are a lot of superior ways: looking for less pricey but comparable alternatives to name-brand colleges, work-study programs, working hard during the summer and ::gasp:: saving the money, and living a generally frugal lifestyle during college.

College can be a good time to develop the habits that will lead to future financial success, and borrowing massive amounts of money when you don’t need to is not a good habit to develop.

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Filed under: Finance, World wide web, E-mail, Web services, Social Software, Beta, web 2.0

How many web pages do you login to every day? There’s your email accounts, social networking sites, bank and credit card web sites, on the web stores, and entertainment web sites. That’s a lot of passwords and URLs to remember. PageOnce aims to make things a lot easier by letting you view all of your on the internet accounts in one place.

The site is in private beta, but if you visit TechCrunch, you might be able to score an invite today.

As soon as you’ve got your account up and running you can start adding on the web services to your PageOnce homepage by clicking the “Add Content” button. Up pops a window with a handful of popular services like Facebook, MySpace, Gmail, Yahoo!, Blockbuster, and Netflix. But PageOnce doesn’t stop there. You can also associate your login information for airlines or travel services like American Airlines or Travelocity. And you can add your bank account information too.

Continue reading PageOnce eliminates the need to login to a hundred web sites today

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Filed under: World wide web, Video, Windows, Social Software

Facebook raised some controversy over plans to broadcast users personal information like movie ticket buys and travel arrangements. But the truth is that many Facebook users are perfectly happy to let the world know what they’re up to through frequent status updates. If you’re the kind of person who doesn’t like to go to work, sleep, or the loo without changing your Facebook status, we’ve got a Windows Media Vista Center plugin that could save you a few seconds of typing time every day.

Developer Jussi Palo has put together a little Facebook application that will automatically update your Facebook status to reflect what you’re watching with Windows Vista Media Center. If you’re watching a live or recorded TV program, your Facebook status will include the program name. If you’re listening to a song, the artist and song title will show up. And if you’re watching a DVD or movie, well, you get the idea.

In order to run install the Facebook Media Center plugin you’ll need to download an executable file to your Windows Vista machine, run the installer, and reboot your system. Then you need to login to Facebook. Everything else happens in the background. Unfortunately your login information won’t be remembered, so you may have to login to Facebook each time you restart your PC.

[via Ian Dixon]

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