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Just who’s watching your social media sites?

24 July, 2012

Original post by NORTHSIDE Over one in three jobseekers believe employers will not look at their social media profile, yet 60 per cent of employers use social media to gain a deeper understanding of a candidate’s skills and experience, according to a survey by recruiting experts Hays. Of 561 Australians polled, 37 per cent said […]

Transmedia Companies Want ‘Story-Driven’ Tech People

23 July, 2012

Original post by ELISABETH GREENBAUM KASSON via Dice The entertainment business is engaged in nothing less than the reinvention of narrative, and the leading edge is something called transmedia. It’s in this corner of storytelling that a next wave of developers, gamers, filmmakers, writers and composers are creating immersive story-telling experiences that employ a variety of […]

Staff of startup BostInno shares advice for success

23 July, 2012

Original post by Sonia Su via USATODAY There’s one phrase that many journalists like to hear and use: “You learn something new every day in journalism.” This is certainly true for local news outletBostInno.com, which combined “Boston” and “innovation” to form its name. What began in 2008as a community startup blog has matured into a full news platform […]

‘Miami TechMeetups’ Rises to Heights

21 July, 2012

Original post by Moises Szarf Something is cooking; something is boiling, in the young Miami Startup Tech Sector. So young it has not yet incubated a renowned startup that has gone to achieve wide recognition. Judging by the way things are “accelerating” this might change soon because there is a group of spirits pushing for it […]

Filepicker.io sponsors TechMeetups App Hackathon: HTML5 & Cloud, London 20-22 July 2012

20 July, 2012

We’re delighted to introduce you to our new HTML5 Hackathon sponsor Filepicker.io , a YCombinator backed company! Filepicker’s goal is to enable users to live and work entirely online, independent of their devices. To realize this vision, they strive to build the best possible set of tools for web and mobile developers to work with […]