Diigo, known for its social annotation, finally went public yesterday. The service aims to turn the web writable allowing users to privately or publicly annotate any website they visit, in turn making a “participatory and interactive media” for its users. I must say that even though I have had an account for Diigo’s private beta since I last reviewed it late December, I have been anticipating its launch. So much has changed since my last review including social bookmarking enhancements, new annotation tools, tools built for bloggers, and more.

It’s only been one day since the public launch and I have already seen mixed comments about the service ranging from extremely happy to down right brutal, but both sides with some strong points. My say? I think it’s a great service because once you start using it, you will realize that it is much more then just bookmarking. Diigo has features that can please just about anyone. You can bookmark a site, take notes, save snippets of text and graphics, highlight sentences on a site, and even share notes on a site with others. If you are a writer, Diigo will allow you to keep your notes and highlights organized and allow you to write a blog post and publish it, all within the service. Diigo also makes it easier for users to bookmark and annotate by providing them with a browser extension (Firefox, Flock, and IE), or if you prefer, a bookmarklet (Diigolet) so you do not have to install anything. The hard part though is standing out as the unique and powerful service that Diigo is and not appearing like it’s just another Del.icio.us clone.

To further illustrate my point of Diigo being more than just bookmarking, let me give you an example scenario. Currently, I’m working on making an online store for my company and I’m beginning to research shipping and handling for our products. I searched around the web and found an article with helpful information so I bookmarked it with Diigo. Being that I bookmarked it, I was then able to highlight the strong points of the article and add notes to the areas that I wanted to add input to. Now, the next time I visit the site, all my notes and highlights will appear (assuming I have the Diigo toolbar enabled). But lets take this a step further. I’m not saving these notes just for myself. I made the notes to share with my partners and that is just what Diigo allows me to do. I locate my bookmark in Diigo and forward the bookmark to my friend which provides them with my notes in the email along with a link to the article I annotated. Now, this link that they receive in the email is special because it allows them to view all my highlighted text and notes on the page without being a Diigo user. Even more so, if they do have an account with Diigo, they can add notes in reply to my notes and highlight text themselves on the article! Now that’s teamwork ;-).

I have decided that because Diigo has such a wide range of features and, from what I can tell, most people feel it is simply a bookmarking service, the best way to describe Diigo is by showing how it differentiates from the crop. So, I am going to go over the main features of Diigo one by one to show what exactly Diigo is capable of. Be sure to also check out the Demo Tours and Features Overview at Diigo’s website.

Bookmarking

Diigo has all of the basic social bookmarking features. You can bookmark any site, add a description and tags, and allow others to comment on your bookmarks. Now, remember, Diigo isn’t built specifically for bookmarking but for annotation. With that said, you can attach highlighted text and notes to any bookmark and even simultaneously bookmark to other social bookmarking services, such as Del.icio.us, Blinklist, Shadows, RawSugar, and more. Why would Diigo allow you to bookmark to other social bookmarking services? If I had to guess it’s simply because many people are already comfortable with services they use, but that doesn’t mean they don’t need Diigo for its annotation. I can use Diigo for annotating a page and then bookmark it to Diigo and Del.ico.us and because the notes are saved to Diigo, the next time I go to that website from my Del.icio.us bookmarks, the notes will be there. You don’t have to use Diigo for its bookmarking - entirely optional. You may also import your browser or Del.icio.us bookmarks to Diigo and export them when needed. Publicly saved bookmarks can be found in the community section along with a tag cloud to navigate through them.

Annotation - Content Highlighting and Notes

The key feature of Diigo is annotation. Users can bookmark a page and highlight text and images on the page to take note of. Highlights on a page by the user will then save and appear as a blue dashed underline whenever they visit the site again. Hovering over a highlight will bring up a menu where the user can optionally add a note to the highlight and make the note private or public. Highlighted text with notes attached to them will appear as a solid underline in blue. Also, if you browse to a site that other Diigo users have highlighted or added notes to, you will see their highlights on the page (if saved publicly) colored in orange.

Being able to bookmark and annotate a page is very helpful. In terms of research, you can bookmark and annotate all the sites related to the topic you are researching. When your done getting all the information you need, select all the bookmarks in the “My Bookmarks” area and select in the top right drop down, “Extract highlights.” This will then grab all your notes from all the sources you’ve saved and display them on a clean page for you to look over and print. This is a great tool for bloggers as well. Gather up all your sources for a post your working on, add your notes, and when ready, select all the bookmarks and blog about it using Diigo’s built in blogging tool (explained below).

Blogging

I personally prefer blogging straight through my WordPress installation, but for those of you that want to take notes, gather sources, and easily publish a post to your blog, Diigo may be your solution. Diigo allows you to add multiple blogs to your account, verify them, and easily publish a post, however you may only publish and cannot manage old entries. What I like is that while you browse the web and you come across a site talking about a specific topic you want to expand on, you can right click and select, “Blog This,” which will then direct you to the blogging area where you can write your post along with that site being your source. The other method is by simply going to your bookmarks section and selecting a bookmark, or multiple bookmarks, that you want to write about and then selecting the “Blog This” option from the top right drop down menu. All the sources, highlighted text, and notes will be included in the post document, which you can easily remove if needed, ready for you to write. It’s not an entire blogging platform, just a simple publishing tool that works.

Browser Toolbar and Bookmarklet

The Diigo toolbar, available for Firefox, IE, and Flock, brings most of Diigo’s features right to your browser. The toolbar allows you to easily bookmark websites, highlight and note pages, search documents for keywords, search terms in a page using your favorite search engine, and it even brings all bookmarks right to the toolbar. The toolbar also is what makes it possible for you to see highlighted text and notes that you and other users have made on websites you visit. Bookmarking a site is as simple as clicking the Diigo button and filling in the tags and highlighting just involves you highlighting the text you want to save. One of my favorite features is the “QuickD” button (not in the above screenshot) that I recently came across. The QuickD button allows you to save a bookmark to Diigo with one click without needing the original Diigo popup to appear and adds a default tag to it (you may also fill in tags in the search box of the toolbar to tag it) so you can just click and go.

What if you don’t want to install an extension to your browser? That’s fine because Diigo also provides it’s user with Diigolet, a browser bookmarklet that allows you to easily bookmark and annotate any website as well as view annotations on pages left by other Diigo users.

Searching

The last feature I want to bring up is searching. Diigo provides you with two main options when searching (Search Tag and Search Full-Text) as well as advanced search options. Searching by tag is nothing new but great to have so you can easily find bookmarks that other users have saved under a specific tag. But performing a full-text search is something that I haven’t seen in related services. Because Diigo stores a cache of every website you bookmark, it can index all of the content and your annotations, making searching much like a normal search engine. You can search in all public bookmarks or your bookmarks only, search for words specifically in a highlight that has been saved, and even find text in comments that Diigo users have made.

Adaptiveblue has recently launched the public beta of Blueorganizer, a Firefox extension designed to help you organize and bookmark content on the web. I’ve been testing Blueorganizer ever since it’s initial private beta release and it’s a pretty solid tool with functionality that lets you bookmark more then just websites. You can look at it as a product smart bookmarking tool where if you are bookmarking a book from Barnes and Noble or a CD from Amazon.com, Blueorganizer will know and format the bookmark specific to that product.

At start, the collection of products and websites that you are saving in your organizer will be saved locally on your hardrive, but if you create an adaptiveblue account, your collection will be stored online so you may easily access it from anywhere. Adaptiveblue takes advantage of Amazon’s S3 storage service allowing you to save your data online giving you possibilities with Blueoganizer including RSS feeds for your collection and website badges. That’s not all though. Blueorganizer is also a tool that allows you to easily buy, compare, and search about any product that you save in your organizer.

To get started, head over to Adaptiveblue and download the extension. Once installing and restarting your browser, you will see two new buttons in your Firefox navigation toolbar that look like what you see to the right. The left button allows you to bookmark, or “bluemark” as Blueorganizer calls it, and the right button lets you open up your collection. Let’s begin with opening your collection.

When you open your collection for the first time, you will notice that Blueorganizer has gone ahead and added some preset bluemarks for you to look through. This is to give you an idea of what you can bookmark and how searching and sorting is handled. You will see that bluemarked books, movies, electronics, music, and even toys will contain images along with extra options to claim if you own the item, buy, search, and compare.

On the top right of every bluemark is a wrench. This wrench is what Blueorganizer calls a context action tool which enables you to instantly find, shop, compare things on the web. This is a very handy feature. Picture this: There is a book that you have been wanting to buy, but you aren’t sure about purchasing it yet. So you bluemark it and use the search and tag options to search about the book and the author with Google, Technorati, or even Odeo for podcasts. You then look for related books that you may like as well and use the tags search tool. After reading more on the book and related, you decide to buy it. You go back to the wrench and click on the compare option to find the best deal on the web for the book and order it.

Let’s now take a look at the search and sorting functionality of Blueorganizer which you see on the top of the organizer. The searching is very basic where you can select the type of bluemark or collection (bookmarks, books, electronics, movies, music, toys, and video games - soon to be more), filter by tags, or search by text with results appearing as you type. The search is pretty standard but what I found to be more interesting was the sorting options, or what I like to call, “Smart Sort.” Depending on the collection type you select from the list, the sort button (on the right of the collection drop down box) will have different options to sort by. For example, selecting the book collection allows you to sort your bluemarks by author, history, popularity, rating, title, and even the year of the book. Or another example, selecting the Video Games collection will allow you to sort by manufacturer, platform type, popularity, and more. The sorting options are flexible to the collection and that really helps you narrow down on items. Although one sorting option that I did not see was sort by date added to the collection, which I would love to see because like normal website bookmarks, I like to view what I most recently bookmarked.

I think we’ve got the basics of using the organizer covered. Now lets look at actually saving bluemarks to your organizer. To bluemark websites and products, simply click the browser bluemark button for Blueorganizer which will then bring up a popup to enter details for the bluemark. But before I continue onto actually saving the bluemark, I want to point out one small but helpful feature with the bluemark button and the Blueorganizer engine. The neat thing with the bluemark button is that when you come across a page that Blueorganizer detects and can successfully grab specific information from (using Microformats - Supported Sites), like a book title and image or music album, it will add a dark blue dot in the middle of the button to notify you. Otherwise, bluemarking a site when the button doesn’t have the dark blue dot will just act as a normal website bookmark.

When the popup appears when adding a bluemark, you will see that if Blueorganizer was able to parse the website and it detected it being a collection type (books, movies, electronics, etc.), the title, image, and tags will automatically be filled in for you. Blueorganizer makes it to the point where the only thing you have to do is… nothing but click “Ok.” The only thing that won’t be filled in for you is the rating and buttons stating that you own the product or not. Any data, including images, that Blueorganizer can recognize out of its supported sites will automatically be added to your bluemark so you don’t have to worry about it.

Last feature I want to talk about is registering an account for your Blueorganizer (completely optional). There are three benefits that I see when you signup. First, creating an account will automatically store all of your bluemarks online securely (using Amazon S3 Storage) in turn letting you automatically synchronize your collections between multiple computers by simply logging in to your account. Secondly, you can publish RSS feeds for your collections so friends and family can easily track what products you are thinking of getting or what products you recommend. Lastly, when publishing your collections, Blueorganizer allows you to add widgets, or Bluebadges, to your website so anyone can see the latest bluemarks you have saved - great for product specific websites. All these features with screenshots can be found in the features overview at Blueorganizer.

Overall, Blueorganizer, is probably one of the best Firefox extensions I have used because of how feature rich it is, although it’s not for everyone. It’s target is more toward users who like to organize books, music, and other things rather then the average web surfer, even though it does support normal bookmarks. My opinion would be to simply give it a try and see how you like it. As for problems, I only ran into one while using the extension and that was when bluemarking a normal website that has a very long address (ie: MapQuest or some blog posts), Blueorganizer would go ahead and add “%20″ (which means a space) in the address at certain points of the URL, in turn making the link broken. Other than that, no problems really. Another issue to Blueorganizer is that it is a Firefox only extension which leads me to agree with Mashable’s idea of having a public website that users can showcase and share their collections, like Kaboodle. But overall, Blueorganizer is a great extension that certainly helps with organizing products and websites online that anyone into keeping collecting should try.

For more, read Sid Yadav’s review of Blueorganizer.

Tick is a new web application in private beta for the service industry, or any industry really, that provides a simple way to track time used on projects. I’ve tried many time tracking solutions, and there are some that are very nice, though they often are complicated or get into too much detail. When it comes to tracking time, I want to simply add a client and associated projects, then add time to them and view reports when needed - which is pretty much the basic run-down of Tick. I don’t want to have to fill out a biography for every client or have to fill in all these little details to submit a timecard (much of it is based on personal preference or business needs though, so preference may vary). At the end of the week, all that is important to me is how many hours have been put in and what projects are running low on budgeted time. Tick does very well with this and it is because it’s focus on two main things: time and budgeted time.

As the Tick website states, what makes Tick… tick? First off, I must say Tick has a very appealing interface. Great use of colors, usable interface, Web Standard design, and Ajax used only when it best helps performance. Another thing that I love about Tick is it’s Basecamp integration (using the Basecamp API) which allows you to easily link projects from your Basecamp account to Tick and work with each other simultaneously. This is a major plus for me being that my company uses Basecamp and having the ability to work with both makes things much easier and saves a lot of time. Tick also does a great job at getting straight to the point with things.

Immediately when logging in you are directed to the Timecard page that lets you submit time to a project and manage any other timecards in no time. On the top, placed horizontally, is a simple weekly calendar which shows the 7 days of the current week as well as left and right arrows on the sides to navigate through previous weeks. Selecting a day of the week will set that day as active and allow you to submit a timecard to it and manage existing timecards submitted that day. But before you can submit timecards, you must have projects to submit time to. Let’s take a look.

To get started, head over to the Projects section and select “Create a new project” on the right. As you guessed it, we’re adding a project. Unlike many time management services that I have used where you are required to create clients and then add projects, Tick allows you to create a project and assign it to your self or add a client as you create the project. Now, if you have a 37signals Basecamp account and set it up in the settings area, you can skip all this by clicking the “Link a project from Basecamp” and simply selecting your Basecamp project from the list. If you don’t have a Basecamp account, again with the little details required, adding a client is as simple as clicking “add a new client” and filling in a name - that’s all. You then fill in the projects name, the total budgeted hours for the project, tasks (optional), and even email notifications to keep everyone updated on the progress of the project. Once you’ve got that set, your ready to submit Timecards. But before I continue, lets take a look at project tasks as they are very helpful for tracking progress on your projects.

Tick allows you to assign tasks to each project that you create so you can easily track time used on specific tasks to completion of the project. It allows you to add as many tasks as needed, but what I like most is that you can also include total hours available for each task taken from the total budgeted time for the project. Tick then allows you to add timecards to individual tasks of a project. You can then view reports for not only the project itself but the projects individual tasks making it very easy for you to know your place in a project.

Tick also reports your progress for each project nicely using color-coded progress bars and timecard overviews. Browse to the Projects section and you will already see an overview of progress of all open projects. Select a project to drill down further allowing you to see overall progress in a project, progress for each invidual task of a project, and even each timecard submitted with notes and time totals. I love the use of the progress bars in Tick. When working on a project, most of the time the bar will be green. However, as you near the end you will notice the bar turns yellow to inform you that the end is near so don’t spend too much time on a task or you will go over the budgeted time. If you do happen to go over the budgeted time, you will find a red progress bar stating how many hours you have gone over the budget with. For the most part, I find the project overview section is all I need to keep up on things, but if you want more, you can find more in the reports area searching by date range.

Overall, Tick seems to work great and keeps your focus on your projects and their budgeted time. Will I be using Tick for my company? I believe I will as it is currently the simplest option that I am aware of that is easy to follow, includes visual reporting for quick progress checks, and only requires the basic information needed to manage timecards. Not to mention the Basecamp integration is a real winner in my book because we use Basecamp heavily in our company. Tick is great for anyone performing services including freelancers, small businesses, or even large scale companies.

Tick is not yet publicly released, although I can view the pricing plans and they are as followed: Tick has a free plan, limited to one open project at a time (closed projects do not count against your plan), and four other plans ranging from $9 to $79 dollars. I am not sure if these are the final prices, but for the most part they aren’t bad. The $9 dollar plan offers only three projects open at a time (which I feel is a little low considering free plan offers one and the next plan up is 15) while the $79 dollar plan offers unlimited everything. Again, being that Tick is in private beta at this time, I am unaware if these are the final prices.

Read Devlounge’s Tick Preview for more including screenshots.

Update: More invites available! You may use the same link that’s in the post. Sorry to anyone that missed it earlier. Now is your chance! Enjoy.

HiveLive is a new service currently in private beta that allows users to post and share any type of information on the web. It’s an interesting service that is a mix of blogging, social networking, and information management. Members create their own “hives” where they can post information of any kind privately, with a select group of friends, or publicly for anyone to see. I’ve tested around with HiveLive for a while and overall think it’s a pretty useful service because there are many possibilities with it. I can create a hive for saving sensitive information privately, maintain a blog with commenting, create a forum for my site, write recipes, store notes, and more. The bad news for some is that HiveLive is in private beta. Fortunately for Solution Watch readers, I’ve got a special invitation code that lasts up to 100 signups, so have at it: Signup to HiveLive.

The first area you come to when logging in is the HiveLive Dashboard which gives you an overview of all activity on HiveLive relating to your account. You can see an overview of recent postings in your hives that you and your friends have made, view recent comments that have been made, and also see who’s active in your network of friends. If it is your first time logging in, you will see HiveLive has added quite a bit of sample content for you to browse through. I found this to be very helpful because it gave me an idea of the possibilities (Note: You can easily remove the sample content at any time by simply going to the Hives section and clicking the minus icon next to the hive). As of now, the dashboard seems to be the best way to keep up on activity around your hives being that I could not find a trace of feeds to subscribe to or anything. I’d hope feeds are present in the future, especially for users that create hives acting as their blogs.

The first step you would want to take is to get familiar with how the system works and to do this, I recommend creating a hive. Browse to the “Hives” section and click on the link, “Create a Hive.” Step 1 is to give your hive a name, tagline, and description. Continuing to the next step will allow you to select read and write privileges to limit who can post in your hive and who can read it. Now comes the more confusing part, “types.”

Creating a hive to store information works much like a custom database service where you make your own forms with your own fields for specific information and organize them the way you want. HiveLive refers to these forms as “types” and provides pre-made types for you to choose from including structured blog entries, bookmarks, recipes, notes, acount details, and so on. You can add as many types to a hive as you would like so you can store information freely and organized. I created a Music Collection hive which includes types for storing albums, bookmarks, and notes for posting anything related to music I own or want to own.

Once your hive has been created and you’ve got all the types you’d like, start posting. As you will see, the interface is much like a blogging platform where posts are listed on the left and types are along the right as well as links to add information of any type. If your hive is public, other users viewing your hive will also be able to post information, acting as a public information manager or blog. Viewers can also go into each posting and add comments. Once you get things going and if your hive is meant to be public invite your friends, add users in your network as members of your hive, and watch the community grow.

HiveLive also has a community section to help get members and public hives some exposure. The main page shows the most recent HiveLive blog entry, overall usage statistics, and recent public posts and comments out of all the HiveLive members. Entering the community Hives page allows you to view all public hives sorted by last update, popularity, or creation date. The community People page is just like the Hives page where it lists all HiveLive members sorted by last update, popularity, or registration date.

What I like about HiveLive the most is that it has almost endless possibilities. HiveLive has turned your basic boring information manager into a social and collaborative information manager with flexibility. You can create a personal blog, forum, project development tool, private contact form, bookmark manager, music collection manager, recipe manager, and… you’ve probably got the idea. I feel HiveLive has potential with its unique social system and it’s userbase seems to be growing at a nice rate. It’s interface is fun and lively and users seem to overall enjoy the service posting and commenting with freedom, making lists about topics, discussing favorite websites, working collaboratively on projects, sharing recipes, and more.

If HiveLive catches your interest and you would like to give it a try, grab one of the 100 available signups before it’s too late! HiveLive invitation for Solution Watch readers: Signup to HiveLive.

Emurse is a recently launched service which has me pretty excited that allows users to easily create and maintain a professional and hosted resume. The founders, Gavin Hall and Alexander Rudloff of postGorilla (also lead developers for the new Netscape.com), says Emurse’s goal is to help users improve their future job hunts, but I feel it accomplishes much more then that. It’s an all around resume solution which everyone has a need for whether looking for a job or not. In my experience, creating a resume, keeping it up to date, sending it out to people, and trying to not lose it has been quite a task and rarely results in a fun time. With Emurse, all of this came easy and I actually had a fun time working on it.

Emurse offers a free service where anyone can signup and create a resume using their online resume builder and share it on the web. Users have the option to create or upload multiple resumes and obtain a permanent address for each (resume.emurse.com) where they can send people to view, download, and print their resume. Resume pages allow viewers to download in six different formats (DOC, PDF, RTF, ODT, HTML, TXT) and and at the same time track the amount of views, downloads, and prints of the resume for the owner to monitor.

When first logging in Emurse, you will be presented with an overview page. This page lists all of your existing resumes, recent statistics in a nice bar graph showing views and downloads, and even an area on the right that lists jobs you may be interested in, powered by Indeed, for those of you on a job hunt. First, I love being able to login and instantly see the statistics for my resumes - something you don’t see to often in services with resume builders. Secondly, I want to continue on the job results. Emurse uses a unique method that reads your existing resumes and extracts your skills from each to find jobs that are most relevant to your experience. It’s a neat feature, one I’m sure will be very helpful for anyone on the search, although I’d like to be able to view more results instead of only the two being listed. Also, if results don’t appear to be all that relevant, Emurse also allows you to go into you account settings and add keywords for more accurate searching.

You have two options when it comes to creating your hosted resume. The first is to create one from scratch using Emurse’s resume builer. The second is to simply upload any existing resume that you have that is either a Word Document, Rich Text Document, or OpenDocument file. Creating from scratch I feel is the best option and will open much more functionality to your shared address. Uploading a resume will simply store it on Emurse and allow you to send it to people and allow viewers to download it (not view) online in any of the six formats. Give both a try and see what you like using best. Let’s assume you are going with the resume builder:

The Emurse resume builder is great and possibly the best I’ve seen yet. It’s also very responsive being it is all dynamic using Ajax to allow you to easily add, sort, and modify information in your resume, saving each time you make a change automatically so you don’t loose anything. To get going, you start by adding sections of your resume. I started off by adding the Personal Information section which contains details usually listed at the top of any basic resume (although one field I felt should be added that doesn’t exist already is personal website), then my Objective. You can add more as you go as well as removeing and sorting them where you please.

One feature you will notice as you select a field in the editor, for instance, “Full Name,” you will see a tooltip appear. This tooltip is what Emurse calls, “Expert Tips,” which gives you hints on what to write in the field (IE: “Full Name” states, “Use your full name. No nicknames, Scooter”). The Expert Tips when displayed are very helpful and some quite funny - nice to see a sense of humor. I personally feel they can be a bit more descriptive on some and think it would be helpful of them to create a resource section on the site with an overview of tips and sites so anyone can make a resume without even having previous experience in making them.

Once you’ve got some sections and information added to your resume, skip over to the Display section (link right under Edit tab). Being that you supplied Emurse with your resume details in the appropriate fields, Emurse can take your information and easily display it in preset resume layouts looking nice and organized. You currently have the choice between five layouts: Professional, Classic, Modern, Edge, and Elegant (Professional or Elegant are my top picks). Simply select one of the designs and Emurse will set your resume to appear that way when viewed online or downloaded. All five layouts are very well made and look excellent and I read more are to come when Emurse steps it up by created “plus” accounts with more templates and functionality.

Once you’ve picked out a design, head over to the Share tab and grab your own address for your resume. Here is my Emurse resume (note, my resume is still in the works). You may also password protect your page if you wish. Once people start viewing your resume, statistics will appear and you can see the last 10 individual referrals to your resume and total views, downloads, and prints of your resume. Emurse also provides you with some HTML that you can stick in your sites to allow your visitors to easily download your resume without leaving your website.

The last feature I want to talk about is Emurse’s sending options. At first I didn’t think much of it, but once I sent a test out I saw how powerful it really is. The Send tab in Emurse allows users to send an email to any email address with the resume as an attachment (you can select file type as well) and track it from the point of sending it, recipient receiving it, scheduling an interview, and so on (as seen in drop down of screenshot). For each email you send you can save notes about how things are going with the contact as well as functionality to easily send a Thank You letter back to the contact to show your appreciation. It’s a whole organization and reminder tool built for tracking your sent out resumes and I am very impressed. But that’s not all. Soon, Emurse will allow you to actually send fax’s and postal your resume to people, although the founders have told me you will have to pay for this which is more then reasonable and I’d gladly pay for it.

Overall, I’m definitely loving Emurse. I know of many people that need such a service and I certain that it will help people get their resumes out there and hopefully get jobs coming in. I have multiple friends and family members that have asked for help on creating resumes and now I will gladly point them to Emurse as it is everything they will need. Easily create a resume, host it online for free, update it whenever you want, never forget where you resume is located, and send it to as many people as you wish. So far I have sent them a few recommendations including a spell checker, color adjustment for the top bar in public resume pages, and some field requests. At this time, only part of the functionality has been unveiled and I’m already very impressed and happy with the service. I’m excited to see what they’ve got coming. Once again, here’s my Emurse resume which I will be working on over the next couple days. Feel free to share your resumes if you happen to create one with Emurse.

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