July 19th, 2008
We are looking for a GUI developer with Ruby experience to join our fast growing global team!
You’ll be working on exiting, production websites with thousands of visitors per month.
The ideal candidate would have hands-on experience with Javascript and jquery.
This is a full time, work-from-wherever-the-heck-you-want position. Our entire team works in this fashion.
Priority #1: www.storage.com. We’ve got a number of exciting technologies we’re working on in our private beta that will be rolled out in the coming months. We’d like you to be a part of it if you’re an expert coder.
Please send your interest to dev-jobs@electron.com
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June 27th, 2008
Investors in geodomains, the local domain space, and even .tv domains will be happy to see the forecast that just came out from The Kelsey Group.
Local online video advertising is said to reach $1.5B by 2012, with Yellow Pages publishers already beginning to sell video advertising to their small business customers. (See example)
Reception so far has been positive, given the general appeal of video and its simplicity when compared with other forms of online advertising (e.g., pay-per-click). Local online video for small businesses also combines the traditional appeal of television advertising with the distribution efficiencies and advantages of the Internet. For users, video in the local search environment complements listings and is watched in “lean forward” mode, as a way to assist purchase decisions and add color to listings.
Demand for video at the local level will drive Internet Yellow Pages to execute tighter sales and fulfillment. The medium’s favorable margins will further compel publishers to embrace it as a means to offset print revenue declines. For Yellow Pages publishers, it also represents an opportunity to appeal to a new set of advertisers they haven’t traditionally reached — the better part of the addressable market of 15 million SMBs in the U.S.
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Source: The Kelsey Group
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May 23rd, 2008

Who can answer this question?
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