(Google just made a major change to Gmail accounts in the UK, now that they’ve settled a trademark case brought against them. This is great – it will simplify mailing list management for a lot of people, and everyone in the world can (legally) be “@gmail.com”) However … I’ve now had two friends write the [...]
2 Comments » Here we have Zynga recruiting for a CTO in SF: http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?k=Job&c=qoX9Vfw9&j=oRigVfw4 (see also the last post, on UK online games jobs)
UPDATE: I’ll add other roles in as/when I get the OK from the relevant people; not all of these are public yet. — Despite the heavy rash of studio closures (well documented by Nicholas Lovell), it seems there’s a lot of exciting online/social games hiring going on right now – I’m getting lots of requests [...]
Dear Eric … here’s my problem: Somehow that didn’t feel right for Google. We wanted something much more transparent and open” (Eric Schmidt, Chairman/CEO Google, writing in the Harvard Business Review this month) How, exactly, would you reconcile that with the fact that I had to serve Google with a legal document (here’s how to [...]
Beautiful, and disturbingly accurate.
I’ve been writing about Entity Systems sporadically for the last few years. Recently, I finally had the time and the excuse to build one of my own (i.e. not owned by an employer). If you haven’t read the main series of ES posts, you should do that first. There are many things in the world [...]
Two more firms have proven their mettle this week (i.e.: think twice before engaging them). As always, it’s nothing personal. If a recruitment agent is doing a job that I and others think weak, but managed to persuade an employer to pay them to do it – and to accept that standard – then all [...]
I’m getting messages every day from John Say (of Say Design) pushing me to join his network on Ushi. Ignoring them had no effect; I’m now routinely forwarding these to google’s spam box. I’m amazed that in 2010 people would send out an “invitiation” to their business contacts without bothering to provide the recipient with [...]
Interesting search result for “O2 Facebook”: …IIRC that started off as a service for MySpace, then MySpace/Facebook. Apparently now it’s all about Facebook (only). The only mention of MySpace is a navbar link to something about broadband – seemingly unrelated. PS: Entity System post coming soon, for those that look for such things. I’ve just [...]
