(August 08, 2003) -  You can feel it. Things are changing while we're not seeing them. "Something important is getting ready to happen," said Hank Stringer in our regular catch-up call.

You can feel it but it doesn't have a name yet.

• 160 Academics gathered in July to define the rights of cyborgs.
• Tony Lee head of CareerJournal.com says, with all of his confidence and sophistication, "We're a very desirable niche." That's the Wall Street Journal niche.
• The merging of GPS and The Web
• CareerCast is fueling the transactions of over 200 newspaper properties and moving into real estate. They have roughly the same reach as CareerBuilder. And, they're letting the customers design the network!!!!
• Playstation goes wireless.
• TaxTalent has joined topUSAJobs. These are not hobbyists.
• Monster is developing an unbelievable depth in compliance issues through its relationship with OPM.
• HotJobs is maximizing its Yahoo home.
• The Rolling Stones cut production costs with wireless networks.
• Many dotcoms doing quite well.
• Small business is the new home for tech dropouts. Can't get a job? Make one.
• Google is rapidly redefining the idea of online community by building a blogging tool into toolbar 2.0.
• Broadly available blogging tools are outpacing the development of mainline web tools. And, it's still early.
• Track your kids with mapamobile. Track your candidates?
• Employment Engineering: an overlay to boost your recruiting platform into a working system.
• The job loss recovery is starting to be described as a cultural inflection point. Things are changing.
• Sony released a PDA-Laptop hybrid that you can actually type on. Wireless, bluetooth. Bye-Bye office.
• ActiveMatch a wireless, location based dating service, sets precedents for mobile Recruiting beyond anything publicly imagined.
• Deanspace is taking the open source concept to Grassroots political organizing.
• Merrill Lynch has announced that  their employees will not be able to access any outside email provider, like AOL, Yahoo or Hotmail.
• Microdoc.
• Google introduces ~Searches. Quick revise all the robots, spiders and Airs courses, this is good.
• Hasta La Vista, Governor, sir. (Arnold)
• Flashmobs....more...Nashville has them.
• Web addiction is an official disorder.
• Teen abduction foiled by cel-cam.
• Smart pills diagnose and then dispense.
• Cliques form the basis of communities.
• Smart passports to arrive in 2004.
• Wiki

That's just the surface. We think we're entering a technical literacy phase, Dot com 2.0 has begun in earnest.

John Sumser

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