James Maguire

If you want to know which trends are growing more popular and which are sinking toward “jump the shark” status, look at Google Trends. The tool, kind of a search engine within a search engine, reveals the popularity – or unpopularity – of a given search keyword. Its results reflect mega-patterns of what people are […]

He is, without a doubt, the only open source software leader who might be called “dashing.” Young (34), fabulously rich (north of $500 million as of 1999) Mark Shuttleworth buzzes around on his own private jet, the Canonical One. Raised in South Africa, in 2002 he launched the First African in Space mission, training as […]

Post a Comment: Do you have a favorite IT job board? Or an experience with a job board you’d like to share? Clearly, Peter Weddle knows Internet job boards. He’s the editor of Guide to Employment Web Sites, which is now in its 8th edition and lists a whopping 350 Internet job boards. 350 job […]

Okay, you’re an IT professional and you’re looking for a job (or a better job than the one you have). Which of the following is most likely to get you a good gig: • Troll the job boards. • Work with an IT placement service or headhunter. • Pick up the telephone and use your […]

Are the tech salary numbers at Glassdoor to be believed? The Web site, launched just last week, claims to have salary data from the biggest tech firms, including Microsoft, Yahoo and Google. Based in Sausalito, Calif., and funded by $3 million from Benchmark Capital, Glassdoor is run by former managers from Expedia and Zillow. So […]

Over the last fifteen years, companies that employ IT staffers have made a regular practice of paying “skills pay.” These are bonuses in addition to the base salary, intended to retain workers with critical subsets of expertise. Here’s how they work. Companies do “job evaluations” to distinguish between people with the same (or similar) job […]

A ranking of the Top 100 technology vendors could be created any number of ways. The vendors could be ranked by total sales, by market share, or by current growth rates, among other methods. The Aberdeen Group created its own list (see below) by soliciting opinion from the experts most closely involved with these vendors: […]

At the recent Mediabistro Circus conference for media professionals in New York, a group of trendsetters – bloggers, editors, Web publishers – talked about the future of the Internet. The event pulled together diverse talents like Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired, Robert Scoble, managing director of Fast Company TV, and Anil Dash, vice president of […]

As you’ve probably noticed, we’ve redesigned Datamation. We’ve given the site a facelift and a greatly improved user interface. In addition to the fresher, more contemporary look, the upgrades include: • Better layout of the articles, with “Hot Topics” links to take you to related stories. • More logical grouping of the stories on the […]

Amid the economic gloom of 2008, the IT job market is holding steady, with perhaps some modest contraction. Take a look, for instance, at the number of tech jobs offered at Dice, the IT job site. “We’ve been relatively flat,” Tom Silver, a Dicesenior VP, tells me. “If you go back about nine months, we […]