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My friend Kris – who is arguably the only techie techie that I know well – has a friend Jane, who is travelling around the US I think, and coming back to Oz sometime in the future, maybe.

Anyway, so she and the hubby have their blog and they are writing about the places they’ve been to, etc. posting pics, blah blah. But Kris did not have a real sense of the relative position and scope of the travels (as in are you heading west right nowt? Or have you crossed the states and then went north to get here? kind of thing

So, he’s mashed an xml feed of places visited by Jane and their coordinates on google maps, so he can see ‘la travesia’. My thoughts on this was ok, so what if you enable people to ‘draw’ their travel plans on a map and then – previous permission – have a few travel companies presenting a travel/flight plan proposal to the would-be tourist. what do you think

I have asked a gent who operates in the thick of the industry as to when we will see something like this happening in the region. I await the answer and trust I can share it.

via Indeed blog

not very fast either; in any case, trust the livesearch gizmo in alltheweb is assessed on relevancy first and foremost

via Yahoo Search Blog

In a previous life, before wearing my Marketing and Tech hats, I used to head a small team of financial analysts at a holding firm with a number of companies in different verticals. The whole team got recruited whilst we were finishing uni. Awesome gig, great mentoring, unencumbered learning, nosing around all the companies, university life with a paycheck.

Ah! The gold jewelry exporter: the whole operation fascinated me, from the excitement of getting the bullion in from the Federal Reserve escorted by armed guards, to the design sketches and the workshop, which was explicitly constructed to minimise waste.

For example, the whole shop floor stood on a drainage system that would wash any gold that would fall from the chain-making machines so that it can be reused later. Similarly, the artisans were given special clothes that were vacuumed at the end of the day (once they had taken them out I remember this moment when I saw a supervisor removing (not surgically!) a tiny gold ring from a worker’s eyebrow. And so forth.

I recalled this experience a few years later when my (then) boss asked me to propose a few names for a project to revamp our candidate relationship systems. I thought we should call it project gold, because we were dealing with precious input.

And I remembered this again now that I am coming out of this fab discussion about higher purpose: placing someone in a job so he/she can fund studies, changing the life of a South African engineer when we organize his move to Perth, offering care for a recently retrenched individual who will avoid further personal distress. Higher purpose…We never got to officially name the project, but I trust there are a few candidates that come to see us that feel like gold.