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Your Progeek Edge: Smell That Snake Oil!

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To say the world is changing faster and faster is both A) an unabashed understatement, and B) a tiresome tirade that we see in too many lazy news commentaries (unlike this hard-working one, of course).   We progeeks and profanes, being wired and technical, know the world is changing fast – some of us are responsible for it for that matter.

The world is changing frighteningly fast because of, let me state the obvious, technology.  I imagine many a science fiction writer has watched the rate of change in the world and just thrown up their hands in frustration.  Technology is one of the major drivers of change in the modern world.

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Resume Worthy Roundup For November 2010

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Let's see what companies did Resume-Worthy things in November . . .

  • ANY publisher involved in the Japanese Manga portal.
  • Game Ground – They got $5.3 million in investment, and though they're in the seemingly overloaded space of game social, they seem to have it together in the form of investors and management team.
  • Gazillion – Someone gave them $60 million.  One of their studios made Lego Universe.  What are you waiting for?
  • Glam Media – They're hiring.
  • Marketo – They got $25 million in investment and do marketing and email work.  Also they've got a nice location.
  • Meebo – Someone invested $25 million in them.  And they're Meebo.
  • Netflix – Look, just trust me at this point.  They're all over the news.
  • Next Issue Media – They want to be the 'Hulu for Magazines' and I appreciate the boldness.
  • Plastic Jungle – Their gift-card exchange site is either brilliant or stupid, but I'm leaning to brilliant, and investors seem to agree to the tune of $10 million.
  • Real Gravity – They got $3.2 million in investment and are working on video content distribution.
  • Rovio – They made Angry Birds.  They are everywhere.  They are going on console.
  • Samsung – Smart company, and though the Galaxy tablet didn't have the greatest review, sales look good. (And having handled one, I think some of the negatives were A) Due to earlier android issues, and B) That they targeted a specific form factor).
  • Sunmerlight – I reccomend them as they have a pretty contrarian strategy which could be bad – or brilliant.
  • TokBox – They've got some years under their belt, and $12 million in investment – and video conferencing is a cool area to work in.
  • Turbulenz – They have an online game platform in the works, and $5.3 million in investment.
  • Yammer – Someone gave them $25 million. (What, is $25 million some magic number?)
  • Zuora – They have a rational business idea (billing/subscription management) and $20 million in investment.

What are you waiting for?  Get cracking!

– Steven Savage