Every week I share between 5-20 links a week on my Tumblr site, which I’m now calling New Comm Biz Lite. All of those links show up on Facebook, Twitter and in the stream to the left hand side of the blog here. But they don’t show up in the RSS feed and with so many links, you may miss something of interest so ever Sunday I’m posting my favorite 10 links. If you want to know more about how I’m now using Tumblr you can see this post.
1 - How Employers Can Help Solve the Skills Gap
There is a huge skills gap right now. For every person on the US and Western Europe there’s about an equal number of job posting. (That’d actually be a real good analysis for someone to do.) I firmly believe that employees need to take ownership here but employers aren’t going to fill those openings easily, so training existing employees is a smart move.
2 - On Smart Phones and Anti-Social Networking
I’ve actually been pondering how the ubiquity of social media + data with mobile context has turned “social” into something seemingly unsocial. It’s cool that I can open an app and pull up information about locations aggregated from thousands of other’s updates, rating and pictures, but their just data at this point, there’s nothing social about it. Then add to this the shifts in the Web from open to proprietary platforms. and all of a sudden social media is starting to indeed look anti-social.
3 - Zuckerberg May Need to Fail
Joshua Gans claims in this article that Mark Zuckerberg has yet to fail. That’s not really true. I suppose it may depend on your definition of failure but Facebook has rolled out many unpopular products (beacon) that they’ve had to roll back. Every little change Facebook makes is met with giant protests and thousands of users threatening to leave. And we know that he’s been sued more times than any pre-IPO CEO that I know of. Granted Facebook is still a huge success, but to imply that Zuck doesn’t know how to deal with failure is just wrong.
4 - Gaming is still the Wild West, according to this ex Zynga programmer
Ever wonder what a tech startup built by an MBA as opposed to an engineer would be like? This might be an extreme example but it’s interesting:
“Zynga is a marketing company, not a games company.”
5 - If you publish online get ready for a lesson in humility
I’ve actually given up trying to figure out which posts will be big and which ones won’t because most of the time, I’m wrong and it only seems to be getting harder to gauge. It might not even have anything to do with the content either, everyone’s so busy that you have nanoseconds to catch their attention and if you miss it, the moments gone.
6 - App Economy has created almost half a million jobs
The report says that many of these jobs could be “jobs not lost” I imagine a lot of these jobs, especially if you factor in the individual app developers, are due to latency in the market, i.e. the guy with a day job who builds an app in his spare time. Even if it doesn’t factor in those developers, most of this market was build off those developers.
7 - Breaking News: The Medium Doesn’t Matter
How long before we see a microblogging only news org. A group of legitimate reports who go around breaking news via Twitter and/or Tumblr on their mobile phones? They’d be guaranteed to beat almost everyone else who had to go back and write their story (although there are some really fast blogger out there).
8 - In the global talent economy over 50% will be mobile workers
50% of workers being partially mobile is a huge opportunity. I think it’s important to determine what partial mobility means. Is that just people like me, who have the option to work from home or is it people who regularly work remote? What about employees like sales people who regularly work from the road (literally mobile)?
At work, my boss, our EMEA GM, works from home at least 2-3 days a week and our CEO doesn’t even have an office anymore because she’s always on the road between our different offices.
9 - V for Vendetta and the rise of Anonymous
Something tells me things are going to get worse before they get better between Anonymous and the Media companies. But honestly it sounds like the setting for a post-apocalyptic novel.
via: matthiasdaues:
10 - Amazon Is Thinking About Real-World Stores
Totally saw this one coming. Everyone wants the physical, direct to customer connection that Apple has and opening a store in Washington lets them still avoid the sales tax issue for now. But as the article points out Amazon will lose the tax battle in the long run and once they start paying state taxes, they might as well open physical stores (assuming their Seattle experiment proves profitable).
