Job Market

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Find Your Ideal Job on Twitter: A step-by-step guide to job hunting via the can't-get-away-from-it social networking site.

What Does Professionalism Look Like?: Addressing misconceptions and busting stereotypes, including these words of wisdom: You can be a professional and still have a life. 

Video Games

GameStop is co-sponsoring an indie game challenge, which will award over $200,000 in cash prizes to both professional and non-professional entrants.Here's the official site - you know what to do.

The beta test of PlayStation Home seems to be going well, with more than seven million people accessing the service since the beta was launched seven months ago. Interestingly, three million of those are in Europe, raising the question of whether it's going to go over better oversas than here. Meanwhile, one of Sony's signature titles is going the cross-media route: Novels based on God of War are scheduled to be released next year. 

Nintendo is beefing up its Japanese streaming video service with content from Warner Entertainment, including movies and anime. It's still in beta there, but if it goes over well, expect it to roll out here, whcih will give every one of the consoles some sort of streaming video service.    

Funcom said it is not ruling out making the new Age of Conan game a free-to-play, showing that they're not giving up on the title yet – and it may be a sound marketing strategy, especially if they eventually move to a tiered gaming level where additional features can be unlocked via subscription. (And if they sell virtual goods? Even better, given how lucrative those are). 

Economics/Geekonomics

President Obama says unemployment will tick up for several months: But the good news is the President said he has "seen some stabilization in the financial markets, and that's good because that means companies can borrow and banks are starting to lend again."  

Technology

Chasing Apple: A look at the app stores being set up by competing smartphone companies, showing just how much opportunity there is to get into this market. (Again, don't expect to get rich, but it could help you enhance your professional reputation). And in related stories, big game companies are now going head to head with upstarts in the iPhone game development wars, and netbook titan Acer is rumored to be launching an Andoid phone this fall. (Given that they already announced an Android netbook, that's no big surprise). 

Google Voice rolls out: So far, the service is available for Android and Blackberry phones. It lets you hook multiple phone numbers to the same ID, so that no matter where you're calling from, it looks like it came from the same number – for instance, if you're working from home, you can call a business client and have it show up on their caller ID as your business phone. The service could prove useful to on-the-go professionals.

Anime/Manga

Crunchyroll is now streaming its anime to an outside source: Afterellen.com, a site geared to the lesbian community, is carring the yuri anime Aoi Hana. We imagine Crunchyroll will be forming more partnerships like this in the future, which will just make them even more of a player in the industry.

Publishing

The struggling New York Times is still taking measures to stay afloat, selling off its classical music station for $45 million after selling a lot of its real estate. Meanwhile, Gannett had a surprise profitable second quarter, despite a drop in ad revenues. The big companies are continuing to struggle and flounder, and will probably land on their feet eventually, if they embrace the new media model – they just may have a rough time getting there.   

Social Media

Five models for social media startups: The pros and cons of different models of doing business, including ad-supported, sponsored and subscription. Worth reading for anyone looking to get into any kind of Web-based business, not just social media. 

- Bonnie