Technology

Shipping, Anyone?

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You may have missed the news that eBay is trying a limited (as in San Francisco) same-day delivery service.  It makes sense considering Amazon is going that way anyway, but I want to mention career opportunities.

Supply, supply chains, and shipping are big.

I had relavites in supply chains and shipping.  I nearly moved into supply chain technology when the opportunity arose.  Supply Chain Project Managers do really well in the market.  Let’s face it people need to get stuff to places, and that doesn’t change in any economy.

The Shipping, moving of good, providing of transport is an area that is heavily geeky.  It’s a ballet of technology, coordination, and more, and one we’re really not aware of.

As it looks like it’s getting new attention now from big internet names, I recommend you consider it for your career.  It may not seem glamorous, but it’s profoundly high-tech and wide-reaching . . . and probably on the grow.

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach for professional and potentially professional geeks, fans, and otaku. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/

MUST READ: Facebook and Stock Prices

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Unless you’re an econogeek like me you probably aren’t interested in the intracacies of the stock market, and even then some arcana may make your eyes glaze over.  I reccomend checking out this nice summary of why Facebook’s stock price is problematic.  It’s a grand example of how the price plunge affects the company and the issues it faces – oh and that the price will probably remain low because many activities the company may do BECAUSE of it’s issues can end up driving it down/keeping it low.

At this point we’re probably going to see all sorts of hang-wringing by “experts” who by and large, proved to be idiots, but really when you read the article you can see how counting on a high stock price was bad, and you know that we here have been pretty cynical about it.  So, no none of this should be a surprise.

Personally I hope Facebook and Zynga get people to be a lot more cautious about stock, stock options, and IPOs.  Then again it seems there’s less starry-eyed goodwill than the hideous dot-bomb era, so there is that.

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach for professional and potentially professional geeks, fans, and otaku. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/

Gaming, Opportunity, Convergence

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So last week it was announced that the Ouya is going to have OnLive on it.  Frankly I expected to see a lot more on that, but it didn’t seem to make much of an impression.  Just another case of technology converging.

Of course the way I see this potential alliance is different.  It means a service that streams games (that don’t run on Android) is going to be playable on an open Android device.  Or in short, your $99 Ouya is going to let you play stuff that you’d normally need a far more powerful machine for.  Sure you have to pay for the service, but we’re talking quite a benefit here.

Yet, I saw a lot less speculation on it, so let me speculate more – and extend this.

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