Chirag Mehta’s US Presidential speeches tag cloud displays a tag cloud of presidential address from 1776 to the present with a time slider. Interesting to watch how our concerns have shifted over time. (Via O’Reilly Radar.)

 
 The 2006 State of the Union Address  (George Bush)

 
The 1789 Inaugural Address (George Washington)

The Jobster team shipped a number of new features for professionals last night, as described by Jason.  

Personalized url.  Now, every jobster user can have their own personalized url. 

        [phil writes: mine is http://www.jobster.com/people/philbo]

Get your own by visiting your home page on jobster.  Having your own personalized url on jobster is an easy way to direct people to your career profile, whether you are looking for a job, hiring, or just networking for your career.  Act fast to get yours before someone else claims it.

Personalized home page.  Now, every registered jobster user gets their own personalized homepage with real-time suggestions of jobs that match their interests and experiences.  To see this feature, you will need to create a free jobster account.

Video profiles.  This is a feature that we’ve received many requests for and are now doing some in-production testing with. 

Video profiles are a hot topic of late, as noted here in the Wall Street Journal and here on NPR.  Many of us also remember the story of Aleksey Vayner and his misfire here as well.

In our first implementation of video profiles, any Jobster user can add a YouTube video to their Jobster profile.  For instance, you can see mine here. This is a potentially great way for candidates to stand out by posting a video resume. We’ve also had a lot of interest from employers in using this feature to post videos about what it’s like to work at their companies or in their particular groups, or to just better explain what they are looking for in a candidate. 

We’ll see how this one develops.  A recent poll i conducted on this blog found that 4 out of 10 people would be interested in adding video to their career profile (higher than expected), and that there was considerable interest in posting video resumes and/or videos about what it’s like to work at a company.  Again, we’ll see how this one goes…  

Yellow pages are great for finding businesses by name or category, but if you want to find a specific product locally, sites like Yokel are a much better way to go.  Yokel lets you know exactly which local stores have a product in stock and how much it costs.

Thanks to some integration help from the good folks at Yokel, Berry411 mobile search is now able to interactively suggest helpful Yokel searches.

Suppose you’re looking for a Wii remote, for instance.  As you type wii, Berry411 will interactively suggest searches for Wii related products on Yokel (such as wii console and wii remote).

Clicking on those links take you directly to Yokel search results, including availability and prices at local stores.

In addition to a comprehensive set of product links from Yokel, Berry411 also automatically suggests other relevant plugin searches based on past searches by users. 

If you search for Happy Feet, relevant searches will be suggested using the plugins for Google Movies, IMDB, and Yokel shopping, as well as yellow pages.

These new features are available automatically to users of recent Berry411 releases (3.7 and above), no upgrade is required.