I know I’ve been weak lately with the Bytes. I could send you my synopsis of the FCC rural broadband plan if you’re wondering what I’m doing.
I wanted to at least send something this week – and I ran into a web site that helped me choose my lunch destination today: Yelp http://www.yelp.com – people post reviews of restaurants and other place (shopping, automotive, healthcare, other). You can search by category or specific name.
If it works out for lunch, I may try it for dinner. If I owned a restaurant or shop or automotive or other BtoC place, I’d be looking myself up and finding loyal customers to write about me.
Have a great weekend!
Remember when I used to be so good about the Byte of the *Week*? Well, to make up for the days I’ve been late, I thought I’d send one early:
Wolfram Alpha: http://www.wolframalpha.com
It’s a new search engine that focuses on computation power. So I typed in “to be or not to be” and the answer is OK. But I type in [$100 in euros] and I get the exchange rate, a history of the exchange rate, comparison to other currencies.
You can learn a ton more about it here: http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html
Thanks to Aileen in Minneapolis for sending it to me.
I’m not a big user (yet), but I wanted to send a note out about Utterli. I think it’s part podcast, part Twitter.
It’s free and easy tool and maybe a better way to go for folks who would rather talk than write. The tool is Utterli http://www.utterli.com
Just sign up for a free account. They will send you an email with instructions including a phone number that you can call to record a message. They will post that recording online and you can then sign in online to get the address of the new recording to paste into a blog post or web site or Twitter or email message…
Here’s my very brilliant first utter: http://www.utterli.com/u/utt/u-ODM5OTYyNQ
One last nice feature – you can set up and record a conference call on too.
A friend asked me yesterday about résumé templates online. After 10 minutes of searching I remembered by old friend Microsoft templates: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/default.aspx
They have templates for just about anything – graduation invitations, expense reports, résumé and more.
Just do a search on the template you need. Click on the name of the template in the search listing to see a sample of the template. Click on download to download the template. Generally then you can just delete the content in the template (by section) and add your content.
One note – just keep an eye on the file format and make sure you have the software to open the file. For example the first résumé template I found was in Microsoft Publisher, which I don’t have. So I skipped over that.
I hope that helps. Also happy mother’s day for moms on the list – and a subtle reminder for kids on the list.
