Rate Search - Telco

Show rate plans. Targeted to consumers and maybe small businesses. No charge, can show ads.

Cell Plan Shopping (Finally) Made Easy
Here’s where the knight in shining armor rides up in the form of MyRatePlan.com, a Web site designed by wireless industry guru Allen Keiter that makes choosing a cell phone plan so simple it’s an insult someone didn’t design one years ago.

Sites to rank doctors, lawyers, CPAs, plumbers ... any service provider. This site is for reviewing real estate brokers.


Ranking the Real-Estate Agents: Clunky Site Identifies Best Bets
By Lauren Baier Kim

Editor's Note: This is the second installment of "The Smart Surfer," a feature that reviews real-estate Web sites and tools available online for home buyers/sellers and real-estate investors.

Web site: Homethinking.com is a site designed to help home buyers and sellers select a real-estate agent. It aims to help consumers target the most active and the most recommended agents through a combination of consumer reviews and Homethinking.com's ranking system.

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Quiet Period Tracking

Stock earnings calendars are wide spread. This is the first quiet period tracker I have seen.

Visa Mash Up

If residency/work visas applications are available, map it.


when a corporation sponsors a green card, they must publish the actual salary along with the application.


no more than 15% of your workforce can be H1-B


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2007.05.15:
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/may2007/db20070515_218119_page_2.htm
... U.S. companies may very well be using the visas for much the same thing. Among the most active applicants for H-1B visas are Accenture (ACN) and Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH). Both are officially headquartered in the U.S., but they have extensive outsourcing operations in India.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa
Worker Protection and Law Enforcement

For every H-1B petition filed with the USCIS, there must be included a Labor Condition Application (LCA) certified by the U.S. Department of Labor. The LCA is designed to ensure that the wage offered to the non-immigrant worker must meet or exceed the prevailing wage in the area of employment. The LCA also contains an attestation section designed to prevent the program from being used to import foreign workers for the purpose of breaking a strike, or for the purpose of replacing US citizen workers. Under the regulations, LCAs are a matter of public record. Corporations hiring H-1B workers are required to make these records available to any member of the public who requests to look at them. Copies of the relevant records are also available from various web sites, including the Department of Labor.



Search tools.
http://www.h1b.info/lca_search.php
http://www.chinaworks.cn/h1b.php?lang=en
http://www.myvisajobs.com/Default.htm

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Common/AboutData.htm
Summarized recent data. By State, tops 10s, etc.




http://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/

Non-immigrant visa issuances by visa class and by nationality: http://www.travel.state.gov/xls/FY06NIVDetailTable.xls

Immigrant by country: http://www.travel.state.gov/xls/FY06AnnualReport.xls



H-1B Program Data. Can download all data or do lookups by employer.
http://www.flcdatacenter.com/CaseH1B.aspx

Email Account Keep Alive

Make a web site that allows anyone to enter: url, usernmae, password, interval. The web site will then log on to that url at the specified interval. The use will be for people to keep alive (by logging in monthly) their throw-away email accounts to avoid account removal.
People may not want to store their password with the web site. For throw-away accounts, this shouldn't much matter.

General Info - Scenario, Simple, Fast

How to design software "scenario, simple, fast", from a large software company.