Podcast Interview:

First, last night I had the pleasure of doing my first podcast interview. Reid Morrow is a really bright college guy out of Colorado. He's a part of a entrepreneur blogging network called Mind Petals. The interview came out pretty well I think, skype either makes me sound like I have a much deeper voice than I do, or all the late nights have made me more of a man. I'm not sure yet. Either way, check it out and spread the love. Reid and the network he's on are going to do great things I think, as it's a topical, interesting subject matter and has a great college focus.

Traffic and Link Love:

So, anyway, Rafe Needleman wrote about us on his Web2.0 blog last night, which was just... awesome, to say the least. Next thing you know Wayjer posts it on digg sometime today (I'm not sure if I should thank Wayne, or slap him ;) j/k, thanks man!).. and well.. The cycle continues. Back on delicious and all over the blogosphere. The traffic we've encountered today is already about double what it was yesterday, which was a record day. We're having trouble keeping the servers going full speed, so, apologies in advance ;) Say a pray for server red, little guy is working his ass off.

We also finished the code for resume reviews late last night. We're going to do some testing on it and release it has a "preview release" (beta's soooo 2005). We're going to launch with paypal as the payment method, which I'm sure people will tool on us some for. But the fact is, it's incredibly easy to drop on and get going. We'll work out a more professional payment method shortly (already have tons of merchant code from the Atqui.com days), just want to research it properly and make sure we're getting the best rates. We'll go ahead and bend over for paypal for the shortterm. Expect resume reviews soon.

Here's a list of some of the coverage that's sending in the most traffic (in no particular order)

http://www.solutionwatch.com/442/emurse-resumes-improved/
http://news.com.com/2061-12572_3-6093492.html?part=rss&tag=6093492&subj=news
http://www.postbubble.com/2006/07/12/emurse-yourself-into-the-job-market/
http://del.icio.us/url/d4b3a198bb312aa10cb2c5a20716c89c
http://www.emilychang.com/go/ehub/app/emurse/
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/an-online-resume-service.html
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/07/11/emurse-resumes-web-2-0-style/
http://digg.com/software/Emurse_Create_and_Track_Your_Resumes
http://screeniac.com/2006/07/02/emursecom/
http://reidlevy.com/2006/07/13/reid-levy-interviews-emurse/
http://www.lifehacker.com/software/jobs/emurse-your-resume-186939.php
http://cssmania.com/galleries/2006/07/12/emurse.php (Mike's design skills got a 9/10 -- wow!)

More to come later, I'm sure :)

Keep spreading the love, we're working our ass off on this side!

UPDATE: The document conversion feature is a beast on the server under this kind of load. We're turning it on and off as we navigate through our traffic patterns -- it's temporary though, I promise ;) Working to get new hardware *stat*.