If you re seeking a job in social media, we d like to help out. For starters, Mashable s Job Lists section gathers together all our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to Leverage Social Media for Career Success and How to Find a Job on Twitter. But we d like to help in a more direct way, too. Mashable?s job boards are a place for socially-savvy companies to find people like you. This week a

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A cool slideshare of Pew's latest research. I find it interesting that the Digital Collaborators and the Desktop Veterans had the highest income are both high contributors and both have been online for the longest.Tags: web web2.0 NCB Posted by: vsrini

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This paper looks at the need for laptop and desktop data protection and based upon recent IDC research the key requirements firms should consider in evaluating enterprise level online PC backup solutions. Published by: Iron Mountain Digital

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An Internet safety study (PDF) just released by Cox Communications shows that teens may be a bit more safety conscious than previously thought. The survey, which was done by Harris Interactive, asked 655 13- to 18-year-olds about their online and cell phone behavior, specifically addressing issues of cyberbullying and sexting. The study was in partnership with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and "America's Most Wanted Host" John Walsh. For the purposes of the study, cyberbullying was

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Introduction Last week, Opera unite was launched. The pre-announcement said that 'Opera will re-invent the Web'. A statement like that makes you sceptical, but in this case - from an innovation perspective, we were not disappointed. Opera Unite is significant and Opera deserves kudos for taking a truly innovative step even within a recession. The basics of Opera Unite have already been discussed before- but not how it could be used. Hence, I will cover a potential application of Opera Unite as

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Buzz monitoring is an essential Digital Marketing and Digital Public Relations skill. It is the digital equivalent of research, focus groups and surveys. Digital listening includes information that was previously unavailable to a marketing communications professional, including online forums, social media conversations, pictures, blogging, audio and video. Its digital nature means that you need a new approach and awareness of not only what can be monitored but how to turn that data into actionable informa

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Online Canadian teens are significantly more likely to have a social network profile than online Canadian adults, according to a new study from, Ipsos Reid. Over three-quarters (76%) of online Canadian teens ages 12-17 now have a social network profile up from 50 percent in 2007. The rate of increase is higher than that for the online adult population, which increased from 39 percent to 56 percent over the same time period. In the study Online Teens: What's the Next Generation Doing Now, autho

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Today at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) conference in Miami, Google released a new research paper that looks at building a web-scale landmark-recognition engine. This could lay the groundwork for some interesting advancements in image search. To be clear up front, this is a research paper, not a new Google product, but we still think it's cool, says Jay Yagnik, Head of Computer Vision Research. The goal is to get computers to recognize landmarks (for example, the Eiffel

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Google's DoubleClick is presenting findings from a new study it commissioned with Dynamic Logic, this afternoon at the ARF Conference. The study, titled, The Brand Value of Rich Media and Video Ads (pdf), analyzes image (gif/jpg), simple Flash, and rich media (with and without video) ad formats. The study addresses challenges facing advertisers and agencies about which ad format to use, offering data to help them pick the ad formats that best match their branding goals, a r

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Research from comScore recently showed that auto makers are doing pretty well with online advertising. In particular, they are using the medium to push SUVs. comScore explains one example: In order to understand how automakers have taken to the online channel for marketing purposes, let s take the example of one of the larger model-specific campaigns that ran in January: GMC Yukon. Using comScore Ad Metrix, our competitive display advertising intelligence service, we learned that the Yukon went to

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Research from Nielsen shows that time spent on Facebook is up 700% from a year ago (that's April '08 to April '09). Meanwhile, MySpace has experienced -31% year-over-year growth. That doesn't look great for MySpace, but don't count out the still popular social network. MySpace is still beating Facebook when it comes to video. In April, Myspace visitors spent 384 million minutes watching video (an average of 38.8 minutes per viewer), while Facebook visitors spent only 113.5 million minutes watching video

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A significant number of MySpace employees may soon have to acquire cardboard moving boxes and update their resumes. Although nothing's certain, there have been several indications that a large wave of layoffs will hit in the near future. Jason Kincaid received warnings from at least two different, and perhaps well-placed, individuals. He reported afterward, One source describes the number of people affected as 'massive', while another source says that the layoffs will likely affe

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RSS has the highest value among Web 2.0 technologies, according to a Forrester Research report released Friday. The research firm surveyed 275 IT decision-makers online between April and June. Twenty-three percent of those surveyed report substantial business value for RSS. One in three uses RSS for marketing purposes. Podcasting came in right behind RSS, with 21% reporting substantial business value. By contrast, only 11% said blogging delivers substantial business value. Fourteen percent said their c

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A recent online survey on experiences with and expectations towards Social Software and the Semantic Web, indicates that Semantic Web technologies are maturing and transcending into the corporate domain. Differing notions between application-oriented and research-oriented participants are much smaller than expected. The report and the data set are available for free!

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Collaboration Around the OpenAmplify Web Service Will Support the Creation of Real-World Applications, Academic Research and Blue-Sky Innovation OpenAmplify (www.OpenAmplify.com), a Semantic Web platform, today opened an online community (http://community.OpenAmplify.com) to drive innovation, collaboration and development for the Semantic Web. As the only generally available Web service that can identify...

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Cash-strapped Brits are cutting back on online shopping and switching to budget bricks-and-mortar alternatives, according to new research. The UK e-Retail report by retail analysts Verdict Research has found shoppers in less well-off social demographics are switching away from the web to shops such as Poundland, Primark and Matalan in order to avoid delivery costs on cheaper items such as clothes and homeware.

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Online sales of lingerie have dropped by more than a quarter, according to a new research report. Web sales of smalls decreased by 26 per cent between April 2008 and April 2009 as cash-strapped Brits cut back on buying new knickers online, the research found. The figures come in stark contrast to the same period the year before, when lingerie sales swelled by 73 per cent.

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U.S. ecommerce sales will decline for the first time this year, according to a revised forecast from eMarketer. The firms revised forecast for ecommerce says consumers will spend 0.4 percent less online in 2009, falling to $133 billion. "We're seeing a very sober picture - it's going to be rough this year," said Jeffrey Grau, a senior analyst at eMarketer told the New York Times. "However, maybe as early as next year, things will begin to pick up where they left off." Grau says as the economy improves

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The leading 27 digital media companies in the world increased earnings by more than 20 percent, to $74 billion in 2008, up from $61.5 billion in 2007, according to new research from Strategy Analytics. Out of the top five digital media companies globally, Apple's "Other Music Related Products and Services" segment, which includes iTunes, was best-in-class- growing 32.7 percent in 2008, while Yahoo saw positive growth, it grew the least with 3.4 percent. "While growth in the digital media sector has bee

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The economy is causing online retailers to rethink their marketing strategies in order to acquire and retain customers, according to findings from "The State of Retailing Online 2009," study from Shop.org conducted by Forrester Research. While Internet sales continue to outpace traditional retail sales, companies are realistic about current challenges. According to the survey, half of respondents (54%) expect overall retail growth to slow during the next 12 months and 57 percent say the economic slowdown

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