article thumbnail

Go Anywhere, Get Anything

Reid Hoffman

I was born in Iran and I grew up there. Then in 1978, the Iranian Revolution happened, and you know, it was a religious revolution, and the folks who were associated with the Shah or the wealthy families et cetera were not safe and not welcome in Iran. I’ll start with my dad: he went back to Iran to be at his father’s deathbed.

Iran 39
article thumbnail

Top 5 Fastest - Growing Freelance Platforms in 2020

Transformify

Powerful matching algorithms help to select those freelancers who best fit recruiters’ criteria around skills, experience, location, pay rate expectations and more. The single sign-on allows employers to source both freelancers and salaried employees.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Bright Unveils A Data-Driven Approach To The Job Search, Raises $6M

techcrunch.com

Then Bright’s 15 data scientists and engineers looked at those results, as well as other activity on the site, to create a generalized scoring algorithm. Flame Malware ‘Created By US And Israel To Fight Iran’ Reports Claim. In other words, the Bright Score assesses how well-suited you are for a certain job.

Search 62
article thumbnail

Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia. They change their search algorithm on a regular basis and as highlighted in John Battelle’s excellent (must read) book ‘ The Search ’ companies are literally put out of business with each change. Or how about Google?

Viral 307
article thumbnail

Panels Not to Miss at SXSW

Austin Startup

Four excellent sessions at 11am: - 2009 Iran Election will hopefully settle an ongoing argument I’m having about social media’s true impact on real-world events. 3:30pm – *Cue self-serving segment* Beyond Algorithms: Search and the Semantic Web. Rub some dirt on it, as my father used to say, and get back in the game.

Iran 79