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workpost

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About workpost

President and Co-Founder of Workpost.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #595159

    http://www.workpost.com Bought workpost.com in 2003, intending to turn it into some kind of work / labor-related site (a place to find and post work etc.). Years later, we're final…

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    Comment #329422

    This is happening to people in all sorts of industries.

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    Comment #315727

    Not bad actually, if you're not just scraping results from other engines (or even if you are), you should keep working on this. When I did searches, I actually found links I was lo…

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    Comment #297704

    Start on basic hosting and upgrade as needed. Ultimahosts.net, ASmallorange.com, Webfaction.com are good. Move up to Slicehost.. Rackspace... and if you're too big for Rackspace...…

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    Comment #257667

    So... Godzilla might be real after all.

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    Comment #250995

    Go English majors!

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    Comment #247321

    It's cool that somebody has created a program like this. If someone tests it, I'd be interested in knowing how well it works.

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    Comment #245103

    At my college we had "Faces and Places" a.k.a the "Meet Book" otherwise known as the "Meat Book." I don't remember it specifically called the "Face Book" but I don't think it's a s…

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    Comment #241300

    Yes. http://www.workpost.com runs on ASP.NET. And like every technology, it has advantages and disadvantages.

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    Comment #238836

    Talk to a few good plumbers and you'll realize that they are all set. Kids these days want to go to college and get "white collar" jobs and this has created a huge opportunity for …

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    Comment #238201

    Great points, actually. I was running it in Virtual PC recently and marveled at how incredibly few resources it used. I was surprised by how much software I could get to run on it …

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    Comment #238198

    Well, this is good news then. Yay!

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    Comment #208670

    Try Ultimahosts.net. It's true, there are less choices available for cheap ASP.NET hosting but Ultimahosts have got to be among the best. You might have to ask to get it but they h…

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    Comment #207284

    Yeah, that's actually not bad... looks like someone owns the .com already though.

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    Comment #206834

    Think about what you want the application to do, brainstorm, free associate and go from there. You've got a mobile application + social networking twist.. off the top of my head I …

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    Comment #192745

    Wouldn't a statement like this make more sense after the entrepreneur has sold his / her first company? Once you've obtained a certain amount of money and success, ideas become a l…

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    Comment #186644

    ah you're right, it's love

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    Comment #186429

    "a man isn’t ready to live until he accepts that he’s already dead." That's a good rule to live by. Not so sure about the rest of the article..

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    Comment #186428

    Godaddy has never let me down but, I'll admit, some of the stories floating around about them are frightening.

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    Comment #184895

    ASP.NET and C# has worked well for Workpost so far. We were able to get version 1.0 online quickly and any issues we've had lately are not related to the platform. Scaling will be …

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    Comment #147371

    Anybody ever heard of Netezza? I was told about it by someone who works with vast amounts of data - many terabytes every day. It's part of a hardware system that uses overwhelming …

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    Comment #142875

    An enlightening article with equally interesting comments.

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    Comment #142861

    Could you direct your friends to my site? Many of the people we would like as users are not computer savvy. Just type my name into Google..