Today In Online Marketing News – Friday May 30, 2008

May 30, 2008 – 7:39 am
  • How to Fill the Talent Gap By Douglas A. Ready and Jay A. Conger | MIT Sloan Management Review. “It’s no secret that global companies are finding it harder to fill critical jobs these days. They’re struggling to land top recruits in emerging markets, for instance, and haven’t prepared people in their own ranks to step seamlessly into management slots.”
  • Privacy concerns may stunt online ad growth By Helen Leggatt | Biz Report. “Anxiety about privacy could stunt the growth of Internet advertising as consumers and regulators continue to learn more about behavioral tracking.”
  • Welcome to the Weekend Web By Olga Kharif | BusinessWeek. “When they use their mobile phones to go online, Americans flock to different sites than when they surf from their computers. Meet the mobile Web”
  • Sun’s ‘bold’ strategy: committing to open source By Brandon Bailey | Mercury News. ” Silicon Valley stalwart Sun Microsystems has transformed itself before, from a company known for high-powered workstations to a major supplier of servers during the first Internet boom. More recently, it has embraced a strategy of building up business by giving away software code for free.”
  • Kevin Lynch on Adobe’s AIR: Extending the Web beyond the Browser By Knowledge@Wharton. “On February 25, 2008, Adobe Systems launched version 1.0 of the Adobe Integrated Runtime, or “AIR,” which allows software programmers to use web-development tools to create desktop software applications that run on all the major operating systems: Windows, Mac and — coming soon — Linux.”

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