Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jeff Taylor knew what he was seeing was no joke. Since January, Taylor, the founder of Monster.com the pioneering online job board, had been hatching his own plans for a Web service that would let job seekers put themselves on the block. And although the eBay geeks didn't sell themselves, the fact that they had given it a go was enough, in Taylor's mind, to "validate the process." So last month Monster rolled out its "talent market," where independent contractors and freelancers can trumpet their skills and put themselves up for auction to prospective employers...
...recently started an online jobs venture, bid4geeks.com where techie teams can gauge how much they're worth. Meanwhile, eLance, a Jersey City, N.J., startup founded by two Wall Streeters, will soon launch a different sort of auction, where firms will be able to post projects--white-collar tasks like Web design, consulting and marketing--and solicit bids on them. Another player, Freeagent.com is set to offer a similar service...
...from one to five days--an accepted bid sets the stage to close the deal. "It gives you a starting point," says David Braverman, of Woodmere, New York, who runs a marketing agency and, after a week on the site, is putting final touches on a project with a Web retailing startup...
Imagine there were only two kinds of cars - and both kinds were four-door sedans. That's how we experience the Web: You only get two choices of Web browser, Netscape and Internet Explorer, and let's face it, there ain't a whole lot of difference between them. Fortunately for us, third-party developers are changing that by making programs - usually free ones -- that live on top of your browser and give it new features, new functions, and even a whole new look and feel. There should be a name for them - call them plug...
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