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Freelancing is the new normal: oDesk and the future of the workforce marketplace

The Next Web

The main prize of oDesk’s competition is a trip to the Silicon Valley with guided tours to the offices of major Internet companies, including Facebook, PayPal, Autodesk, and others. Among other fastest-growing client countries one can also find Latvia, Pakistan, Romania, Lithuania, and Malaysia. Have laptop – will freelance.

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“WHAT WAS ALL THIS VIDEO???” Five Questions with Magic & Loss Author Virginia Heffernan

Hunter Walker

About its communities, content niches, the aesthetic of the first wave of user content. And not just tolerated my fanboy love of YouTube but we grooved about technology, avatars, adolescence and all things Internet. Virginia recently wrote Magic and Loss , an amazing and well-received book about the Internet as art.

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“WHAT WAS ALL THIS VIDEO???” Five Questions with Magic & Loss Author Virginia Heffernan

Hunter Walker

About its communities, content niches, the aesthetic of the first wave of user content. And not just tolerated my fanboy love of YouTube but we grooved about technology, avatars, adolescence and all things Internet. Virginia recently wrote Magic and Loss , an amazing and well-received book about the Internet as art.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

Eric Ries : I had to do the math, and it's dangerous to do the math live, but I had to look up on Wikipedia the number of English-speaking internet users, which is about 1.1 Eric Ries : So if I'm getting it right, 60 million people is something like 5% of the possible audience of people who are on the internet and speak English.