At a time when you are getting bored with yet another social networking site with a professional twist following LinkedIn's success, Notchup joined the game with a truly innovative twist to the game: get paid of interview for jobs.
That's right folks: Notchup asks the companies to pay up for a time of you sitting in for an interview.
How much is your time worth? Apparently a whole lot. In fact, it looks like that I can possibly make a living out of going to job interviews.
Here's more: the company gives its users incentive to invite their friends who might be interested in other jobs: for each friend you invite, they'll pay you a bonus equal to 10% of what your friend earns on every interview they do for a year.
It sounds kind of like a pyramid scheme to me but I signed up anyway. We'll see what happens. Like Ziki, Notchup has a LinkedIn profile import option, which is very handy because who wants to enter yet another profile these days?
In my opinion, all network data ought to be stored on the user's end and an open API ought to be made available to import user data instead.
There's no direct profile linking yet and the site is fairly barebones--the news of its availability also appears to be causing some server load issues, but the idea is sound and I look forward to seeing how well it goes.
via email from Kit Latham (Flickr / SML Wiki)
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+ SML LinkedIn
+ SML Network
+ SML Ziki
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Notchup = Get paid to interview for jobs
Thursday, January 24, 2008
CoComment = useful comment aggreagator
Commenting on other people's photos and blog posts is fun, but if you truly wish to engage in a dialog with folks, it's a virtually impossible task. Tracking comments RSS on your most frequented blogs is possible, but ultimately if you see the entire web as one gigantic blog like I do, you're out of luck, until CoComment came along last fall:
CoComment is a useful web site which aggregates blog comments onto a single portal. It tracks your comments via a browser plugin. In addition to tracking conversations across multiple web sites, it has tagging capability to allow easy content filtering.
Recommended.
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+ SML Network
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Keep Life Sexy / Personal lubricant rebrand through UGC
www.keeplifesexy.com is KY-Jelly (a personal lubricant)'s venture into UGC-powered advertising.
The concept is really simple and straight-forward, to the point where I actually question its creativity. That said, I also felt that many interactive seen these days are so 'innovative' that the target audience might just not get it.
Bottom line: it's an innovative approach to any pharmaceutical marketing site and it succeeds in updating my brand perception for this old-school standard. That makes for a successful campaign.
via Tom Ajello's tweets
©2008 See-ming Lee 李思明 SML / SML Pro Blog / SML Universe. All rights reserved.
IconNicholson Pranksters / SML Thank You
Today (2008-01-21) was my first day at work since the SML Appendectomy incident, and it is heart-felt to see the IconNicholson mascot vandalized with my logo.
What a sweet welcoming gift. Whoever you are, much SML Love to you! :)
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+ SML Dogs
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Monday, January 21, 2008
MeeVee = Television scheduling made easy
For the longest time of my life, I don't have cable, because when I used to have it, I could not find anything to watch.
Two weeks ago I was chatting with Dirty Patrick (SML Wiki) and he said that I should get it just so that I can watch Project Runway.
My cable box arrived last week and I found myself addicted to the show. I liked it so much that I finished 2 seasons worth of Project Runway on Netflix DVD.
It's great when you've got friends to tell you what to watch because they know you well, but beyond that I'm stuck. I tried TV Guide at first but the interface is closed to useless.
What I really needed is a site that will give me TV recommendation based on interests. As always, I posted my question on Ask MetaFilter and in a matter of days, my recommendations came back: http://www.meevee.com
MeeVee really doesn't let me down. Based on the TV listings that I favorited, I created a time schedule for me. It will even record directly to Tivo. I haven't tried out the community features yet but this site looks very promising.
Thanks for everybody on MeFi who helped me out!
©2008 See-ming Lee 李思明 SML / SML Pro Blog / SML Universe. All rights reserved.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
10,000+ views on a Flickr set
Who would of thought that my 200 Most Interesting Gay Pride New York 2007 (set) would have reached 10,172 audience since I put them up on Flickr last June?
As such I've decided to create a quick slideshow of all the photos (no audio track for now... but will try to put some grooves on it later:
200 Most Interesting Gay Pride New York 2007 / SML from See-ming Lee
Thank you all for the faves + comments as well.
©2008 See-ming Lee 李思明 SML / SML Pro Blog / SML Universe. All rights reserved.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Personal Branding
Back in the spring of 2007, I started the exercise of personal branding.
I love doing branding and identity projects, but there aren't many opportunities at the moment. I have learned over time that the best way to keep myself fresh is to do it constantly and persistently. So I follow the paths of Oprah and Martha Stewart and started the exercise of personal branding.
My extensive exploration of self is my research on understanding my brand, and it is from these analysis that I came up with the logo that you see today, from which I have developed my color system and branding guidelines.
The Logo
The logo is composed of three circles: small, medium and large. The three colors are the origin of colors, and represents design (magenta), technology (yellow) and marketing strategy (cyan) respectively. The execution is simple because I had a Bauhaus education.
The logo is placed everywhere where I exist, and extend beyond the seeminglee.com domain and into all the collaborative communities. I use the logo to 'stamp' holiday greetings. I also use it as my avatar on all my social networks. Because the logo scales well, it is also used as the favicon on my main hub.
Fun today
I was doing some experiments with video projection the past couple of days and I thought that it might be fun to brand myself directly on my body.
So here's my current advertising campaign running on Flickr: this is the closest I've been able to get my logo on the product—myself.
©2008 See-ming Lee 李思明 SML / SML Pro Blog / SML Universe. All rights reserved.
