Daily Reading from May 22, 2008

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22 May 2008

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Zappos $1,000 Offer — Ever heard of a “Quit-Now” bonus for new employees? We’ve all heard of severance packages where long-standing employees are essentially paid a bonus to quit now. But a “Quit-Now” bonus for new employees to voluntarily leave after a week ...

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Google on the desktop Google picks up Picasa, giving them an important foothold on people's PCs.

Rounded corners in CSS There lots of ways to create rounded corners with CSS, but they always require lots of complex HTML and CSS. This is simpler.

Pitching Bloggers Forget what you learned in your PR classes. Start acting like a human instead of a marketer, and the humans behind the blogs will respond.

Writing Realistic Job Descriptions Publish a job listing like this one and you are virtually guaranteeing that you won't get qualified applicants for the position.

How not to apply for a job Applying for a job isn't that hard, but it does take some minimal effort and common sense.

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