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Startup Updates – July 28
by Allen Stern on July 28th, 2009
Good morning and welcome to today’s startup updates with a bonus photo of my favorite cereal Rice Chex. And the best part is unlike others posting for their free colon cleaner beverages, the photo below is 100% shilling-free!
- Akvopedia moves to Creative Commons – Akvopedia
- Smarkets moves into new offices in London – Smarkets
- Facebook now integrated into social service – Sobees
- More music – exactly 5,464 tracks now available – Spotify
- Adjix CEO apologizes for putting a Chick-fil-a coupon into the BreakingNews twitter account (although when you need some nuggets, you need some nuggets!) – Adjix
- MobiTV offers top 10 music channel – MobiTV
- KickFly teases us with more new stuff coming soon – KickFly
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Dear Allen,
I’ve been considering freelancing through oDesk and found a review you wrote in 2006 entitled “oDesk = eSlavery 2.0?”
The reason I googled them was because I was getting a little freaked out as I read about their Big Brother methods of keeping providers “honest.” As you mentioned, key strokes don’t record thoughts, but thinking is an important part of writing and editing–maybe the most important part–but it seems as though oDesk doesn’t reward it.
Have you done a recent evaluation of them? I’d be interested to know if your opinion has changed since it’s been 3 years since your original article.
Sincerely,
Barbara Larson