On Tuesday, Coursera, which works with high-profile colleges to provide massive open online courses, or MOOC’s, announced its employee-matching service, called Coursera Career Services. Some high-profile tech companies have already signed up—including Facebook and Twitter, according to a post on Coursera’s blog, though officials would not disclose how much employers pay for the service. Only students who opt into the service will be included in the system that participating employers see, a detail stressed in an e-mail message that Coursera sent to its nearly two million past or present students on Tuesday.
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TeachersPayTeachers.com
TeachersPayTeachers is the world’s first open marketplace where teachers buy and sell original teaching materials.
via About Us – TeachersPayTeachers.com.
Join us as a buyer or seller or both to make your teaching career even more rewarding. We call it Free Market Merit Pay for Teachers.
Welcome to Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
The company provides know-how in core development, as well as bridging the gap between the corporate world and the decentralized open source community environment. Our wide expertise can provide the reliability and stability of payed support in a world that is based on a volunteering community.
Foursquare
Foursquare, stylized as foursquare, is a location-based social networking website for mobile devices, such as smartphones. Users “check-in” at venues using a mobile website, text messaging or a device-specific application by selecting from a list of venues the application locates nearby.[3] Location is based on GPS hardware in the mobile device or network location provided by the application. Each check-in awards the user points and sometimes “badges”.
via Foursquare – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The service was created in 2009 by Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai. Crowley had previously founded the similar project Dodgeball as his graduate thesis project in the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University. Google bought Dodgeball in 2005 and shut it down in 2009, replacing it with Google Latitude. Dodgeball user interactions were based on SMS technology, rather than an application.[4]
Sound Incorporated
We design and implement a vast array of communication products that allow businesses to operate in the most effective and efficient manner possible. From traditional telephone systems to VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) we strive to meet and exceed all technological expectations for business success.
via Sound Incorporated.
You can hardly make it out but I think the address of this place is 1550 Shore Road in Naperville. For a company in the telecommunications business I find it strange how they can’t put together a decent readable web site. They also serve up pdfs for invitations like those awful restaurant web site serving up menus as pdfs.
Chicago Restaurants, Chicago Menus, Ratings, Reviews, Chicago Restaurants Guide
Chicago Restaurants, Chicago Menus, Ratings, Reviews, Chicago Restaurants Guide.
Compare the above link with this site.
It takes quality data to make a useful web site.
vCita
vCita is a new way to interact with website visitors, acquire clients and provide services online. vCita encourages your online audience to approach you, ask for advice and schedule time to talk over video or phone.
via vCita.
This site puts out a wordpress plugin (secure contact form) that uses the resources this outfit has to offer. Interesting business model.