The multimedia resume

After Ryan Dougherty sent out about 70 traditional resumes to prospective employers and got no responses, he decided he needed to shake things up.

“I had to take a different approach,” he explains, but he didn’t quite know what to do. That is, until he came across a video resume site called InterviewClips.com and thought, “What do I have to lose?”

He quickly made a video resume and decided whenever he applied for a job online that he would upload a cover letter with a link to the video instead of a standard resume.

SHOW #68 - NerdBoyTV: Tweeple On Twitter

In this episode of NerdBoyTV, Ryan Yee introduces Tweeple On Twitter, a new website of TwitterVIEWs with interesting people on Twitter, including Kevin Sherman of BubbleTweet, Hugh Briss, graphic designer of Twitter backgrounds, and Gabe Michael, independent filmmaker and star of "The Big Time."

Amazon's Kindle 2 a smash hit

Has Amazon finally hit on the right formula with its second version of the Kindle e-book reader? According to TechCrunch, the company has already sold 300,000 of the devices (in less than two months) and expects to pump out 500,000 more before the end of the year. (Some analysts have even higher hopes for the device, with sales projections topping 1 million units.) Either way you cut it, that's a huge win for Amazon.