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Virtual Interview, Real Job

In a virtual world, an actual job may be waiting – Yahoo! News

Those who’ve been living on Squornshellous Zeta for the past few years take note – the virtual world of Second Life, is now giving a second life to innovative recruitment tactics. We’d already heard of IBM setting up virtual offices, but this absolutely takes it to the next level.

I guess the day ain’t far, when geeks like me get to drive to virtual office with a corner view in a Bugatti in Second Life while working from the comfort of home…

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MySpace to launch video filtering system – Yahoo! News

MySpace to launch video filtering system – Yahoo! News

Damn, that’s bad news for us users, for whom, such sites were becoming good places to get videos from. I just hope it takes time to trickle down to YouTube or Google Video.

In fact, I guess they stand to lose too – the popularity of YouTube has, to quite an extent, been driven by the plethora of music videos available on it. I wonder how many will still visit later. Yes, they will still visit, but traffic WILL be reduced.