I r photoshoppin’

well…not really. Atleast not on Adobe Photshop (or cheaper equivalent).

I discovered this wonderful little website via TechCrunch.

I’ve used the free photo editor that Adobe offered about a year+ on their site and from a serious art PoV, I was decidedly unimpressed. To be fair, its targeted at more casual users touching up vacation photos and not at artists (even wannabe ones like me).

Provided you have a good internet connection, it fills a niche which, imo, is still vacant. Its a good tool between full-on hardcore an expensive desktop apps like Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter and free junk like mspaint and paint.net. The only comparable app (i.e. free and powerful) that i know of is GIMP, which is tear-out-yer-eyeballs awkward to use.

Deloitte Football Money League 2009

Get it here. (Note: 2+ MB file and requires registration (a quick one).)

Real Madrid retains top spot. As a Real Madrid supporter, this is good.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the world’s 2 ‘richest’ clubs – Chelsea and Manchester City are not the world’s richest clubs. Their owners are the world’s 2 richest football club owners. The 110 million GBP that chelsea ’spent’ in a summer? They didn’t spend it. Roman Abramovich did. Chelsea owe Roman that money.

The top 10 in revenue:

1. Real Madrid
2. Manure
3. Barca
4. Bayern Munich (not a surprise considering Bundesliga’s high attendances)
5. Chelski
6. Arse
7. ‘Pool
8. Milan
9. Roma
10. Inter

I’ll take 2 please

of this (not really) and this (hell yeah really).

Pity I can probably only afford the former.

Social Media People at Davos

TechCrunch interviewed Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg, MySpace CEO Chris Dewolfe and and LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman.

The one that interested me is the LinkedIn interview. With LinkedIn gaining a million people a day and being so focussed on the professional workplace, its reflects real life a lot more than facebook/myspace.

Reid Hoffman mentioned something interesting:

Everyone knew we’d get an uptick from job seekers, free agents, consultants. A pleasant surprise is the recruiting space, all of our customers are keeping or increasing their spend. Recruiting business is growing.

Is recruiting business growing just because more job seekers are roaming linkedIn than pre-slump? Or is it also indicative of greater adoption in general of LinkedIn by recruiters?