080529 Daily Links

  • Akamai Releases State of the Internet Report South Korea has the fastest internet in the world
  • The Fork in the Road for Social MediaDown one road is adding more features to a walled garden and opening up just enough, so that users seldom need to leave. Most sites are going down this yellow brick road and the prize is clearly a big one. But they may end up back in Kansas. Down the other road, lies a future of being the primary repository for your connections (aka the social graph), but with this data available via open APIs to anybody who needs it. That is a utility type model, and as with any utility, it can be hugely valuable at scale.”
  • The career site 2.0 As people with specific skill sets become harder to find will we start to see more and more microsites?
  • The Resume is Alive and Kickin’ “I haven’t retired,” cried The Resume. “I’m working but I’m under-employed and unappreciated.”
  • Ups & Downs of China’s Labor ShortagesOn a recent trip overseas I struggled to explain shortages for both professionals and workers in a land of 1.3 billion people, with the added contradiction of a shortage of jobs for Chinese graduates.

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