Need to Know - Small Business Technology: January 4, 2012

What Job Seekers Need to Know in Today’s Digital Market - Well written piece on the increasing importance of social media when seeking employment and employees. Pay attention to the paragrapgh below the "Your Social Media Profiles Are as Important as Your Resume (If Not More Important)" subheading as it tells you where and what you need to do.

10 Predictions for Work and Economics in 2012 - You only need to know is this one: "...ever more people will enter the mall with a SmartPhone, browse, feel the fabric and so on, scan desired items into their phone, find the cheapest price on the Net, and, in one click, have it delivered to their home."

Photos Are The New Killer App - That's been my experience recently as I snap photos of recipes, future gifts, and steps in using office equipment with my smartphone. Gist of the short article: if you want to make money developing a killer app, something adding value using photos is the direction to go.

How To Repair Virus-Infected PC When Windows Fails To Boot Up [Guide] - Good illustreated web-based guide on using non-Windows operating systems to boot up and recover your PC. Ubuntu and SARDU featured.

The Year in Education: Seven Innovations Changing the Way the World Learns - OK, its not directly related to small business or technology, but you need to know what happening in how people are learning things. Click "next" in the upper right corner of each image to advance the slide show. I liked 7/9 on learning creativity.

5 Ways to Use Google+ to Improve Your Search Engine Optimization - High quality online guide on how to tweak your Google+ pages boost your websites search ranking. You are free to ignore and not actually implement any of these. Remember - survival is not mandatory.

Mobile Payments and Commerce Set For Breakthrough - Short easy-to-read summary of marketing data on mobile payments and m-commerce. You don't have to be an expert, but you should have a idea of what's happening in this area.

Top 20 Mobile Productivity Apps of 2011 - List of 10 top apps for each Android and iOS devices.

Google’s Android Training Initiative – Will it boost mLearning? - Short overview of Google's new Android  classes to help developers build better Android apps using best practices. Includes a link to the Android Training Initiative site.