Mark Kobayashi-Hillary wrote a piece about outsourcing and Thomas Friedman. He explains how the world is flattening and agrees with a lot of Friedman’s points. He also goes on to talk about Freelancer.com being a major driver behind this outsourcing epidemic. You can read the article here: http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/social-business/2010/03/opportunities-abound-for-p2p-jobs.html
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Matt Barrie, CEO of Freelancer Will Be Presenting at Funding Connect
Funding Connect will be held at Customs House, 31 Alfred Street, Circular Quay on the 22nd of April. The event helps connect investors, successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders from all sectors from the technology industry in Australia. The event aims to provide opportunities for partnerships, funding and networking for technology companies. Matt Barrie, CEO of Freelancer.com, will be one of the speakers at Funding Connect on the ‘Going Global’ panel. He brings his business experience and heavy involvement within the… Read more
Freelancer.com Smashes Through 1,000 Jobs Per Day
In the last 24 hours, Freelancer.com smashed through 1,000 jobs per day! This affirms us as the #1 outsourcing site in the world for jobs with almost 640,000 jobs posted to date. Also yesterday we were #1 outsourcing site in the world for reaching users on the Internet, according to Alexa, with just shy of 0.15% of all Internet users reached! We are experiencing some great growth in not only job numbers but also users. We have now hit over… Read more
Freelancer.com in the New York Times!
Multiple Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Thomas L Friedman mentions Freelancer.com in the New York Times. He talks about the benefits of immigration to American in driving innovation, and mentions Freelancer.com in assisting in the realisation of ‘sparks of ideas’. If I just have the spark of an idea now, I can get a designer in Taiwan to design it. I can get a factory in China to produce a prototype. I can get a factory in Vietnam to mass manufacture… Read more
Design Our T-Shirt Competition
We have decided to run a Design The Freelancer T-Shirt Competition. We are looking for creative entries and t-shirt designs that will really encourage people to wear them. We want our t-shirts to be worn by ALL freelancers. This competition will be open for 30 days and close on April 16th 2010 Midnight (EDT). 1st Prize is $US2,500 and a Specialist Graphic Designer Insignia 2nd Prize is Gold Membership for a whole year and a Specialist Graphic Designer Insignia 3rd… Read more
Interview with Andrea Smith (USA) – Grand Winner
Andrea Smith from USA took out our “Expose Our Logo For $US10,000.00″ and won the grand prize of $US10,000. We managed to catch up with her and ask her a few question in regards to her entry and winning the competition. Check it out below! Question 1: What do you do for a living at the moment? Answer: I am a student. I recently graduated from the University of Florida (Go Gators!) with my Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, and I… Read more
Interview with Judson Cabalatungan (Philippines) – People's Choice Award
We ran a quick interview with Judson Cabalatungan (Philippines) who took our the People’s Choice Award with his huge Freelancer logo in the sugar cane fields. Here is the interview below. Question 1: What do you do for a living at the moment? Answer: I’m currently employed in the City Government of Kabankalan as Computer Department In-charge. I also do system programming, website design and computer repairs in my free time. Question 2: How did you come up with your… Read more
Winner of our "Expose Our Logo For $10,000" Competition
Congratulations to Andrea Smith (asmith87) from USA for 1st Place in our “Expose Our Logo For $10,000″ Competition, winner of $US10,000.00. Andrea and her team took Freelancer to the Daytona 500, exposing our logo to potentially 250,000 people and encouraging them to visit http://www.freelancer.com. They made t-shirts, blew up balloons and made signs to educate and promote freelancer. Why did it win? The Judges liked this entry alot because of the creativity shown, the engagement with the public, quality of… Read more
"Expose Our Logo For $10,000" People's Choice Award and 2nd Place
We have announced our “Expose Our Logo For $10,000″ People’s Choice Award. Judson Cabalatungan, username: judsonbc (Philippines) entered with a Giant Freelancer Logo in Field and took out the People’s Choice Award. The epic entry received a total of 131 votes. Judson will be taking home $US2,500 and will be awarded a Master Marketeer Insignia. Congratulation Judson. Here are the pics of the entry. Picture 1, Picture 2, Picture 3, Picture 4, Picture 5, Picture 6 We have also announced… Read more
3rd and 4th Positions For our "Expose Our Logo For $10,000" Competition
Congratulations to aleyavu and ausradesign for coming 3rd and 4th respectively in our “Expose Our Logo For $10,000″ Competition. Their efforts were very inspiring and really embodied the spirit of the competiton.. 4th position is awarded to Ausra Kupliauskaite (Lithuania), username: ausradesign for “Freelancer promoted in Newspaper”.They placed a FREELANCER non-standard ad on national mass media (both print and online) and organised a ride out to see how and where it is handed out. Check out the video below: 3rd… Read more