Technology For All!

Here’s something that all of us can use, and need.  If you’re anything like me, you would be very unorganized.  I came across something that just may do the job for us.  You would be able to Get more done faster with Task Market.  Yes, Task Market is a new site that will help you and me save time.  Below I have placed a screen shot of the site and a Press Release.  Check it out!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Welcome to the launch of the Task Economy. We’d like you to be among the first to experience it, kick the tires, and share your opinions with your readers.

Microsoft® Task Market is a new Technology Preview site that lets people with tasks find people with the know-how to do them – saving time, and improving the end product.

For every person who throws up both hands at the prospect of creating a complex formula in Microsoft Excel, somewhere in the world there’s another person who can make it look easy. For every poor proofreader, there’s an expert one out there who wouldn’t mind making a few extra dollars. For every small business owner who doesn’t have time to do background research on a new business prospect, there’s a talented researcher who could quickly put together a dossier.

The big idea with Task Market is this: create a viable market to get them together and things get done.

Task Market is in the Technology Preview stage. That means that developers at Microsoft Research are releasing the site “into the wild” to demonstrate the potential of the technology, investigate the breadth of user adoption, solicit ideas on how to improve the site and, ultimately, create a market of Task Posters and Task Solvers to help people get their office tasks done.

A Task Market Task is:

· Something that can be done for $20 to $500

· Something that the Task Poster could use help doing

· Something that can be delivered electronically, like a Microsoft Office document.

A Task Market Poster might need help with:

· a specialized Excel formula

· language translation

· letter writing

· an aspect of their accounting

· making a PowerPoint presentation “pretty”

· graphics, charts, formatting or logos

· research gathering

· proofreading

· building sell sheets, listing sheets or simple brochures

· fact checking

Task Market Solvers create profiles of their skills to help Posters assign tasks to Solvers with the right skill sets, and get email alerts when a job arrives that fits their skillsets. Posters can award and pay several solvers for tasks to compare results, and give more work to the ones they like. All without the commitment of a freelance engagement.

Check out the working tech preview at www.taskmarket.com . Who knows. We may be building a whole new economy. We’d like to start with you and your readers. Let me know if you have any questions.

One Of The Greats!

Ken Griffey Jr. has final reach the mark of 600 homeruns in his career.  This homerun like most of all his others was a perfect swing.  Once the ball hit the bat, he and everyone else knew hit was homerun # 600.  Griffey stood to admire his 600th homer before rounding the bases.  I would have stood and admired it also.  There are just a few that have hit more than 600 homeruns in their careers.  It’s a matter of fact; he has become only the sixth player in history to reach that mark.  I have posted in the past on the 600 homerun club, here it is again, *Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Sammy Sosa and now Ken Griffey Jr.  Griffery said, “I don’t think I touched any of the bases. I sort of floated around”.  In my book, and most other’s, Griffey is one of the last Great’s to play this game we call baseball!