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This post is going to wander a bit, so please do bear with me. I’d like to start with an announcement: oDesk is going to end support for Internet Explorer 6 some time in September 2008. I thought I had better put that out there just in case we have some readers who still use [...]

What is it? It’s really two bills right now, one in the US House and one in the Senate. You can read the bills here: Senate House Although titled differently by each legislative body, I’ll just collectively refer to the OWA (orphan works act). Each covers essentially the same ground; they modify existing copyright law [...]

I didn’t get much done yesterday. Rather than slaving away over a hot keyboard I went to the “Heroes Happen Here” Microsoft Launch Event. I know some of you are probably thinking something like “Dave, you’re a writer, why did you go to a Microsoft event?” I could say I went because I could, but [...]

Profiles are one of the two areas where new providers seem to have the most trouble (the other area is cover letters). As a buyer on oDesk, I’ve seen a huge range of profile quality, and know that while a profile doesn’t always reflect the quality of the provider, a mediocre one can seriously hurt [...]

oDesk announced a new feature called “oConomy” today, and I’ve had some fun checking it out. What’s the oConomy? It’s a collection of statistics (nicely presented in graphs and maps) that give details on how people are doing business on oDesk. Many of the graphs are fun to look at, but I encourage you to [...]