A recent report onAllFacebooksaid that four out of every five college admissions offices look up prospective students on Facebook. The report also said that social network screening is at times the deciding factor between similar candidates. UPDATE:Kaplan Test Prep, the organization behind the survey referred to in the AllFacebook post has been in touch to clarify that the stat refers to two similar 2010 surveys in which: “80% of college admissions officers or a colleague in their admissions office had received a Facebook friend request from at least one applicant – an increase form 71% in our 2009 survey....

Since the release of the Kindle, sales ofEbookshave been on the rise. Recently,Amazonannounced that it sold more ebooks than paperbacks. Despite the growing trend of ebooks, some of us are still out there looking to get our hands on some good literature without having to pay for it. Here are some tips for getting free ebooks. The Big Players There are plenty of marketplaces for ebooks now and many of them offer a large collection of free ebooks....

If you’ve missed the news about Facebook’s new send button, make sure to drop by ourcoverage of it here. No worries, this piece will still be around when you get back. Done? Good. Now, you’ll notice that it says that Facebook is rolling out the button to 50 sites. Feeling left out? No longer, my friends! You too can have your very own Facebook Send button, and it’s as easy as following afew simple steps:...

In today’s web-enabled job market, the curriculum viate and the résumé are dying. Instead of typing up a list of your skills, previous employers and a list of hobbies, job-seekers – particularly in the technology industry – are having to come up with concepts and unique ideas that give employers no choice but to hire them. One example of his is Emiel Mols, a 23 year old student studying at Twente University (The Netherlands) who is about to undertake a placement for his Master’s thesis....

An ex-correspondent for the Wall Street Journal Matt Marshall is now the founder of VentureBeat -A digital publication to provide news about innovation for forward-thinking executives. He has been in Silicon Valley for ten years and has some interesting perspective on the technology industry’s evolution from first dot com crash to the fast growing ecosystem it is today. I asked about how he set up VentureBeat and his plans for the future....