Career:
Job seekers recruited via Social Media more likely to be hired. Not surprising really, but worth thinking about.
Culture:
Steve found this about Meritocracy – this blog post notes it came from a satire, before going on to eviscerate sexism/classism/racism in text. Remember that next time someone says they’re in a Meritocracy.
Publishing:
Lulu is adding new features – They include new templates and, according to their press release, “four new solutions for publishing e-books, each allowing authors to make their books available quickly and easily on tablets and e-readers through the Apple iBookstore, Barnes & Noble’s NOOK Bookstore and the Lulu Marketplace.” Notice that Amazon is conspicuous by its absence.
Try and follow this. Tumblr’s book club picks a novel about a fangirl as it’s first book club pick. First, congrats to the author on promoting such a subject and I’ve heard some good things on it, secondly Tumblr has a book club. Wow.
Technology:
Tivo moves to the cloud. Sure it’s experimental, but they’ve got some foundation, lead, and alliances – and a need to save themselves from market changes. Probably worth watching and there might be some good opportunities – though since everyone else is doing the streaming/TV/cloud thing who knows . . .
Video Games:
Ouya’s “Free The Games” is a bit of a debacle. More here. I’ll say again I treated the Ouya as more a milestone or experiment. But this is kind of sad.
– Steven Savage