http://ecofiling.com/

starting a new web application this week called ecofiling.
We plan to off set all carbon emissions for running our server and a storage center.

Now to the web app basically it’s going to be an online document management system for small to large business. So instead of printing hundreds of time sheets or contact sheets off just simply store them online then give all your employes some login details to access all the necessary company documents.

Ecofiling will also come with company branding … i.e. colour customisation and logo implementation so it can look like your companies web site so no one gets confused…..

Well it should be good, visit back soon more to come…..

Cover letters - why do companies bother with them? I know at least a dozen people who have admitted to nicking a perfectly written cover letter off the Internet and just changing the names and the work experience to their own. (Well, one of those people actually forgot to change the name from “John Smith” to her own - needless to say, she never heard back.)

When I’m in the position to hire people, I don’t give a hoot about where they used to work, what their bosses said about how they worked, what happened to that job, whether they live with their parents or with their ex girlfriend and her cat. In fact, I’d be a lot more likely to hire someone who can sum up their motives and motivations in a paragraph or two. What they’ve got to offer, why they think they’re good enough, and how we can contact them.

Sharp, smart, and simple.

Thinking of it like that, cover letters and softwares have a lot in common. We don’t want to have to go through tediously long “how-to-use” guides just so we can decide whether or not we want to pay for it. We want to see it and intuitively know what goes where and how it works. Now that’s efficiency, and that’s what we want to strive towards.

This morning our storage service provider (Amazon) has had a major outage. This problem has been happening since 9:06 AM PST.  There is no estimated time it will be fixed released as of yet. but we are hoping it will be soon. A few other sites have been effected like smugmug. Who say that every storage provider they have ever used has let them down at some stage.

comScore, Inc., has released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. April 2008 saw Americans conduct 10.6 billion core searches, with Google Sites continuing to gain market share as the leading search engine. Google increased its search share to 61.6% in April, up from 59.8% in March. Yahoo! Sites ranked second with 20.4 percent, followed by Microsoft Sites (9.1 percent), AOL LLC (4.6 percent), and Ask Network (4.3 percent). With these figures, the importance of ranking high in Google search results is even more apparent. Websites need to be optimized correctly to make the most of free clicks in the organic search results of search engines and in particular Google. Make sure that the keywords for your industry are used in your website in places such as your URL, Page Title and in particular in the content of your site. In the coming months I will discuss in further detail how to make sure you are doing everything you can to help yourself rank higher in Google and other search engines.

You guessed it. The open source monkeys from Mozilla are trying to brake a Guinness world record for the greatest number of downloads in 24 hours with their new browser Firefox 3 (Date of release to be announced soon)

The new browser is bosting to be faster, cleaner, more secure, and easier to use than ever before.

One of the main new innovation is the download manager which it aimed to increase download speeds and organize your downloads. the download manager will allow you to search all your downloads straight from the activity window.

Some other added extras include…..

Integration with Vista: Firefox’s menus now display using Vista’s native theme.

Integration with the Mac: Firefox now uses the OS X spellchecker and supports Growl for notifications of completed downloads and available updates. (releasenotes)

Check out this link to world download day make a pledge and see if we can set a record.

….signed THE WEB CHEF