One of the worst off? Federal employees and their amazing benefits. Washington employs nearly 2 million people, not including the military, making it the country’s largest employer. After Sept. 11, 2001, it expanded significantly due to homeland security needs. But those days may be coming to an end….
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#4 “Make it, but don’t take it” - The easiest way to make affordable sacrifices on a regular basis? Take the money out of your paycheck before it hits your hand….
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Murdoch announced his new plans this evening at the Web 2.0 conference. The new MySpace Platform will eventually largely mirror the Facebook Platform which launched in May and has led to the creation of thousands of third party applications.
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What is the good life to you? Like many, I used to imagine Barbie and Ken with the big home, matching BMWs, vacation home(s), and luxurious yacht. I assumed that Barbie and Ken were the very portrait of success. However, a closer look revealed that my vision was distorted. Barbie and Ken were BROKE! Forget […]
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"We started working on developing the site back in October 2004," Kevin Rose told ZDNet "We started toying around with the idea a couple of months prior to that, but it was early October when we actually started creating what would become the beta version of digg. The site launched to the world on December 5th 2004."
Kevin Rose's friend David Prager (The Screen Savers, This Week in Tech) originally wanted to call the site “Diggnation”, but Kevin wanted a simpler name. He chose the name "Digg", because users are able to "dig" stories, out of those submitted, up to the front page. The site was called “Digg” instead of “Dig” because the domain name “dig.com” was previously registered. “Diggnation” would eventually be used as the title of Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht's weekly podcast.