Not surprisingly given the grim jobs report issued earlier today by the Department of Labor, LinkUp’s September jobs report showed that the U.S. jobs market continues to struggle badly. New job listings on LinkUp fell by 14% during the month and total job listings dropped by 7%. On a state by state basis, 38 of [...]
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September 17, 2009
LinkUp Announces New iPhone Application
Minneapolis, MN – LinkUp, the fastest growing job search engine on the web today, announced the release of its free iPhone application for job seekers. Exactly like the LinkUp.com website itself, LinkUp’s new iPhone app allows job seekers to search job listings that are found exclusively on [...]
LinkUp just released a new Facebook application that allows companies to fully and effectively leverage the power of the world’s largest social network in their recruiting strategies. The app (which can be found here), called ‘Current Jobs At Our Company,’ allows companies to publish jobs from their corporate website to their company’s Facebook page. The [...]
I am very curious to know if Apple is generating any revenue from app developers to promote their iPhone applications. I have to imagine that some apps are paying a large fee to be included in Apple’s full-page newspaper ads promoting the app store and the iPhone. If anyone has seen any articles or commentary [...]
I had the great pleasure of hearing Jim Grant of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer speak at a conference last week. In his incredibly entertaining, enlightening, and frightening remarks, he noted that in the previous 10 post-war recessions, the peak-to-trough decline in GDP averaged 1.7%. The average stimulus response during those 10 recessions averaged 2.9% of [...]
My fascination with lego creations continues…
I had to post the following picture as it combines my obsession with legos (here and here and here) and the most enjoyable and memorable inauguration I’ll ever see in my lifetime. Thanks, Berna, for the photo.
Coosje van Bruggen, the artist (or at least half of the collaborative team along with husband Claes Oldenburg) that created one of Minneapolis’ most identifiable landmarks, died yesterday. If Minneapolis is any indication, she had a significant impact on the civic aesthetic of many communities around the world.
…this guy. Darnell Frazier (pictured above) and another guy were stopped by an officer in St. Paul in December. Darnell was evasive about giving his name, claiming he had never had a photo ID. When pressed, Darnell gave the name Darnell Lewis. Then the officer noticed that the word ‘Frazier’ was tattooed on Darnell’s neck. [...]