Apa Yang Harus Diketahui Sebelum Nikahi Entrepreneur

29 Dec 2012

Anda hendak menikahi seorang entrepreneur? Bohong jika Anda tidak merasa ragu dengan masa depan. Sebagian besar orang terutama yang masih berpikiran konvensional merasa bahwa profesi entrepreneur bukanlah profesi yang menjamin masa depan yang cerah, apalagi jika orang yang Anda akan nikahi adalah seorang entrepreneur yang belum sukses di mata masyarakat.

Apa saja alasan yang membuat seseorang yakin dan bangga untuk menikahi seorang entrepreneur? Banyak! Inilah beberapa di antaranya.

Anda akan nikahi sumber ide dan passion yang tak akan habis. Pasangan Anda ialah sosok optimistis. Anda mungkin tidak mengetahuinya sekarang tetapi Anda sepakat untuk ikut menjelajah jalur kehidupan yang penuh ketidakpastian dengannya. Pada dasarnya, Anda mungkin berkelana dengannya menjelajahi tak hanya satu tetapi begitu banyak kemungkinan dalam kehidupan ini.

Anda juga akan menikahi seseorang yang menganggap tidur dan istirahat sebagai pelengkap dalam kehidupan mereka.

Lalu bagaimana dengan uang? Itulah yang selalu mereka pikirkan siang dan malam. Ya, akan ada saat-saat yang tak terhitung saat pasangan Anda nampak tak fokus, terlalu banyak menangani urusan, dan /atau terganggu dengan impian-impian yang terdengar tak masuk akal (dalam banyak kasus, mungkin Anda bisa jadi benar!)

Anda akan mencoba untuk beradu argumen dengannya, dan bahkan Anda mungkin akan berusaha membujuknya mengambil pilihan profesi yang lebih aman dan stabil tetapi Anda mengetahui bagaimana ia berhasil mengelak.

Anda akan merasa begitu ragu saat pasangan Anda berkata “Inilah peluang emas!” dan meneriakkan “Rasanya tinggal sedikit lagi!” Tetapi menjadi yakin saat menyaksikannya bekerja keras siang malam untuk meraih impiannya.

Jangan menyerah. Jangan lupakan hal-hal yang membuat Anda tertarik kepadanya. Bisa jadi itu adalah hal-hal yang berhubungan dengan energinya yang meluap-luap dan passion-nya yang mengalir secara konstan dari dalam jiwa mereka.

Jangan juga lupakan kenyataan bahwa orang yang Anda kasihi itu adalah satu dari sekian sedikit orang di dunia ini yang bisa bangun di pagi hari mengharapkan untuk berlibur bersama Anda di sela kesibukan.

Ingatlah bagaimana ia membuat Anda merasa begitu dihargai sebagai individu. Mungkin pasangan Anda ini nampaknya terlalu sibuk atau tak peduli, namun ketahuilah bahwa dalam hati mereka sering berpikir tentang Anda dan merasa sangat termotivasi dalam pekerjaannya saat memikirkan cintanya kepada Anda.

Jangan lupakan bahwa mereka membutuhkan kepercayaan Anda, ingin terus mendorong Anda dan berbicara tentang kebenaran dalam cinta. Tindakan kecil yang penuh kasih sayang dan dukungan tulus bisa membuat perbedaan besar dalam jiwa mereka.

Sadarilah bahwa bagi pasangan Anda kehidupan adalah petualangan. Entah Anda menyukainya atau tidak. Ia penuh dengan kejutan dan akan membuat hidup Anda lebih berwarna.
Kemapanan itu memabukkan baginya. Dan mungkin, sebuah fatamorgana. Tak ada yang statis di dunia ini, bukan?

Terimalah dia apa adanya dan nikmati perjalanan yang akan Anda berdua arungi. Rayakan ide-ide yang telah berhasil diimplementasikan dan belajarlah dari kegagalan bersama-sama. Berkomunikasilah sesering mungkin dan hindarilah kebohongan, tanpa harus menjadi terlalu pesimistis atau optimistis.

Tolak untuk menyerah dalam proses menjalani kehidupan yang sesuai dengan pilihan Anda dan dia, yaitu dalam dunia wirausaha. Jadi sudahkah Anda mantap menjalin tali pernikahan yang sakral dengan seorang entrepreneur?(*AP)

Handicapping 2013 technology predictions

Summary: Windows 8 is out for enterprises, Chinese smartphone makers are in, big data jobs will outnumber qualified candidates around the world and Western economy IT pros will work for fast-growing Asia firms, according to Gartner.

By Larry Dignan for Between the Lines | October 24, 2012 -- 15:53 GMT (23:53 SGT)

Gartner outlined its top predictions for information technology for 2013 and beyond and the short version is that Windows 8 is out for enterprises, Chinese smartphone makers are in, big data jobs will outnumber qualified candidates around the world and Western economy IT pros will work for fast-growing Asia firms.

That's the takeaway from the latest set of predictions from Gartner for the year ahead. Here's a look at the 2013 predictions via Gartner analyst Daryl Plummer with a bit of a reality check.

Through 2015, 90 percent of enterprises will bypass broad Windows 8 deployments. The gist is that enterprises will sit on the Windows 8 sidelines.

Reality: Broad proclamations on Windows 8 are tough to make. Enterprises aren't going to go Windows 8 happy in 2013 because they want to see adoption elsewhere. If Windows 8 takes off, enterprise deployments will follow before 2015. Most companies will look toward Windows 9.

By year end 2014, three of the top five mobile handset makers will be Chinese.

Reality: Not much of a stretch given that Android is free and ZTE, Huawei and Lenovo are will all look abroad.

By 2015, 4.4 million jobs will be created by big data. Only a third of those jobs will be filled.

Reality: There's a data architect and scientist shortage. Colleges will take time to fill the talent pipeline. If universities started now, qualified grads wouldn't show up until 2016.

By 2014, EU directives will aim to protect drive and cut offshore outsourcing by 20 percent.

Reality: This protectionist move could happen, but all that means is companies in Germany and France will move more labor to Poland and Eastern European countries. India out. Eastern Europe in. No jobs created.

By 2014, IT hiring in Western markets will come from Asia-based companies.

Reality: The revenue growth would add up and a weak dollar means that the likes of Wipro, Infosys and others will hire IT pros in the U.S.

By 2017, 40 percent of enterprise contact information will have leaked into Facebook via mobile.

Reality: 40 percent sounds conservative.

Through 2014, employee owned devices will be compromised by malware at twice the rate of corporate owned devices.

Reality: Will there be any corporate owned devices?

Through 2014, software spending from smart operational technology will increase by 25 percent.

Reality: The Internet of things will meet big data. Spending boom ensues.

By 2015, 40 percent of global 1000 organizations will use gamification as primary vehicle to transform business operations.

Reality: Puhleeze. Gartner also thinks enterprise gamification spending will eclipse consumer gamification in 2013.

By 2016, wearable smart electronics will be a $10 billion industry.

Reality: Sign me up, but that's a big number.

By 2014, market consolidation will displace up to 20 percent of the top 100 IT service providers.

Reality: Tech execs at the Gartner powwow are actively seeking out smaller vendors. The big tech suppliers are viewed skeptically.

Topics: CIO, Big Data, Tech Industry, Windows

tren 2013: carry-along..

Into 2013: The year of the 'Carry-Along'

Summary: We've all become dependent on connectivity and computation, turning us into tablet- and smartphone-toting cyborgs. How will this trend evolve in 2013?

By Simon Bisson for 500 words into the future | December 14, 2012 -- 17:13 GMT (01:13 SGT)

Following on from Mary's initial look at this year's set of predictions from industry analyst Mark Anderson, it's worth drilling into some in more detail.

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Mark's first prediction, that 'Carry-Along' devices will dominate global computer markets isn't a difficult one to call. You only have to sit on a tube train in London to see the tablets (mainly iPad, with a smattering of Nexus 7's and a handful of Surfaces) as people while away their commuting hours. Glance over a few shoulders and you'll see it's not all Angry Birds; instead they're using devices for school work and for PDF documents and spreadsheets, and, well, just about anything we do with desktop computers.

We've all become dependent on connectivity and computation, turning us into tablet- and smartphone-toting cyborgs. Our carry-along devices have become prosthetics for memory, and enhancements to cognition. If you don't know just who hit the run or pitched the out that won the 1966 World Series, or scored the winning goal in the 1973 FA Cup, you don't need to go to a library to get the answer — it's going to be in Wikipedia, or at the very least a quick search away. You don't need to remember phone numbers or email addresses, or write things in a diary — and with tools like Google Now or Live Tiles you can see what's happening around you with just a glance at a screen.

The first carry-along devices were netbooks, taking a low-cost leaf from the One Laptop Per Child project's XO-PC. That's changed over the last few years, with the keyboard all but disappearing in favour of the tablet form factor. Although tablet PCs and slates had been around since the 1990s (along with PDAs and handheld PCs), it was the arrival of the low-cost netbook that popularised the form factor. A light device that did most of what you needed to do at a fraction of the price couldn't fail to be successful — until something lighter and more convenient came along.

Not just for consumption

Tablets are often seen — and marketed — as consumption devices, but there's a lot they (and their smaller smartphone siblings) can do. You may not be able to create a massive Excel spreadsheet, but you can check results; you can't write the Great American Novel, but you can proof read and comment on a document. Instead of sitting in a tube carriage reading a copy of a free newspaper we can be using carry-along devices to be productive. It's not surprising that businesses are finding that workers are using devices to respond to mail and review documents outside of traditional business hours — and with larger-screen devices they're handling more complex tasks quicker.

Tablets are often seen — and marketed — as consumption devices, but there's a lot they can do

The ability to take computation wherever we go is significantly changing the role of the IT department. Not only do they need to manage bring-your-own-device (BYOD) schemes, they now need to implement more complex information management and security procedures — as well as rolling out applications and services that are suited to both new form factors and new ways of working.

That's the flip-side of Mark's prediction: the fundamental changes that result from a shift in device form factor popularity. It's no coincidence that Microsoft's WinRT development model used for Windows Store applications and its own Surface tablet is focused on delivering smart, asynchronous applications that work in conjunction with cloud services — with APIs that simplify using authenticated connections to ensure end-to-end information security.

If you're writing business system code you'll need to consider the new endpoints you're going to have to service, and the tools and approaches you'll need to deliver services to those devices. Will you be working with smart clients, or will you take the HTML5 way out and trust the browser? It's a complex dilemma, and one that's going to significantly affect the way you deliver business solutions.

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Smaller, higher-resolution screens are going to have an influence here too. Different approaches to sub-pixel rendering allow for clearer text (with Microsoft using its ClearType rendering, and Apple using clusters of pixels on its Retina displays), making it easier to use carry-along devices for reading documents and editing content, anywhere, anytime. Apple's iPad Mini and Google's Nexus 7 have shown that 7-inch and 8-inch displays are acceptable to end users, and if the rumours are to be believed, a refresh of Windows 8 and a next generation of Surface devices are going to support 7in. screens too.

Then there's the other end of the scale. Who's to say that an ultra-lightweight device like a MacBook Air or an Intel-powered ultrabook isn't just another form of carry-along device? They're small, light, and easy to just pick up and take with you, just in-case you might need them...

With his Carry-Along prediction, Mark Anderson has made a very safe bet. We're at another inflexion point in the world of personal computers, one where small and light doesn't mean weak and inflexible. Today's carry-alongs, tablet and ultrabook alike, are powerful, full-featured computing devices — devices that are tailored to the way we work, and the way we live. Computing shouldn't be tethered to a power cord, and the carry-along is just another step in its evolution.

Topics: Bring Your Own Device, Hardware, Mobility, Tablets

Predictions for IT priorities and the cloud in 2013: Experts weigh in

Summary: As more enterprises warmed up to cloud adoption in 2012, next year we'll see some more aggressive and decisive action.

By Rachel King for Between the Lines | December 26, 2012 -- 12:00 GMT (20:00 SGT)

Now that 2012 is all but over, let's discuss where enterprise technology and the IT agenda is headed next year. Certainly, the cloud and mobility are going to be major priorities.

But beyond just lofty theories, what can we expect specifically?

Along with checking out some predictions already circulating, I reached out to some more industry experts and executives about what some of the biggest priorities for IT will be next year.

Of course, this isn't a complete list as plans change and unexpected things happen, but here's a rundown (in no particular order):

Datacenters

Allwyn Sequeira, chief technology officer and vice president of cloud networking and security at VMware, wrote in a blog post that we should expect to see the shift towards software-defined datacenters accelerate in 2013.

"Networking and infrastructure security represent some of the stickiest issues when it comes to the drive to a more agile data center," Sequeira explained, "And because of this strong customer interest in SDDCs, you’ll also see more networking vendors and startups modify their roadmaps to steer towards a software-defined networking strategy."

Citrix told me that virtualization has already effected a change on the data center infrastructure, which is being magnified by cloud computing. Thus, the predicted result is that software networking will outpace physical networking.

Where a fairly static and stable decision tree was once the hallmark of a robust network, a dynamic network that constantly redefines traffic flows for individual users and VMs is the new requirement. The stage will be set in 2013 for SDN to become the dominant form of networking. The proliferation of routing stacks, load balancers, virtual switches and firewalls that support ever-changing traffic flows will be delivered in cloud orchestration systems, embedded deeper in hypervisors and even common operating systems.

Mobile Workforces

Kevin Gavin, chief marketing officer at ShoreTel, suggested that BYOD won't be the focus so much as something he referred to as "CYOD."

Gavin explained:

With stats indicating that employee-owned devices will be compromised by malware at more than double the rate of corporate-owned devices, it’s not surprising why some companies are resistant to the BYOD trend. With employees wanting certain devices, but IT departments holding on to control for dear life, 2013 will bring a year of compromise. The practice of giving employees the ability to “choose their own device” instead of “bring their own device” will increase; which will satisfy security issues concerning the IT department and the desire of choice for employees.

Technology research firm Gartner predicted in its 2013 special report that mobile can actually give back to businesses in more ways than we might expect, which might offset some of the naysayers worried about the infusion of mobility in the workplace.

Business intelligence and analytics leaders should understand the trends that will improve the pervasiveness of BI. Our 2013 predictions are that mobile will improve BI; multiple data sources in business dashboards will improve situational awareness; and implementations will be more service-centric.

As for the cloud, this might be the segment where we see the most dramatic changes in terms of action than ever before.

Gartner recently estimated that IT budgets will increase 3.8 percent next year, attributing a large part of that growth to cloud computing.

"2012 was the year that cloud adoption passed the point of no return for most businesses," said Michael Crandell, CEO of RightScale, via email. "In 2013, we'll see businesses focus on managing all their usage effectively across multiple cloud providers, and companies big and small will take a cloud-first approach to IT."

So here are a few cloud sub-trends, so to speak, that we should expect to see a lot more about in 2013:

Hybrid cloud models

Gavin declared that "hybrid is the future" for cloud computing.

"With the emergence of cloud-based UC, adoption of hybrid solutions encompassing a combination of cloud and premise will significantly increase," Gavin explained. "In the next few years, we’ll see additional applications, such as voicemail transcription and email-based fax services, available as cloud services. Vendors that that offer hybrid solutions in 2013 will be better positioned for growth."

Crandell posited that if enterprises are not already working toward a hybrid cloud solution, they will be by the end of 2013.

"This approach makes it easier for enterprises and startups alike to manage their infrastructure –- from geographical advantages (having clouds close to customers) to increased performance and better compliance capabilities," he added.

Storage

The cloud storage market -- both for consumers and the enterprise -- emerged as very competitive space in 2012, and that is sure to continue next year with Google Drive, Dropbox, Box and more.

But from an end-user standpoint in the enterprise world, VMware's chief technology officer Steve Herrod said in a blog post recently that he expects "to see even more customers virtualize their storage environment and move towards a more policy-based management approach."

The Red Hat storage team published their own predictions last week, also in accord with the potential for hybrid cloud models.

But the open source purveyors also defended that the philosophy at the backbone of Red Hat will also give way to new and "unified approach" for enterprise storage based on "community-driven innovation."

Community-driven innovation is the hallmark of a true open source approach to solving enterprise storage problems. For example, the emerging area of big data alone has more than 100 distinct open source ‘big data’ projects with thousands of software developers contributing code, enhancing features, and increasing stability. It is hard to match this pace of innovation when software is being written within a vendor’s four walls. We predict enterprises will gravitate toward the open source approach to solving real-world storage challenges. Projects including GlusterFS, ceph, Apache Hadoop, and MongoDB already see an uptick in community involvement and enterprise adoption. And, we anticipate this trend will continue unabated in 2013.

Big data

This is one that everyone loved to talk about in 2012, but it wasn't evident that everyone knew exactly what they were talking about.

Duke S. Skarda, chief technology officer at SoftLayer, a global cloud infrastructure platform provider, said that we should expect to see more solution-oriented delivery models when it comes to addressing big data concerns.

"In 2013, I believe we'll reach a point where enterprises and Internet companies will have a clearer view of how best to combine solutions to solve their real-world problems using the cloud ecosystem," Skarda said. "As cloud infrastructure and applications mature, users will seek more robust solutions that enable them to move from their own datacenters, more effectively manage big data and gain business agility."

Social

Interestingly, social was one topic that didn't seem to come up as much -- at least when it comes to the enterprise. While it is inevitable that social technologies will advance considerably next year, perhaps they just won't be as buzzworthy as they were in 2012.

Nevertheless, Crandell remarked that "the public cloud will evolve as the de facto infrastructure for enterprises running mobile and social applications."

Seiring pekerjaan mobile meningkat, pekerjaan 9-5 berkurang

As Mobile Work Rises, 9-to-5 Jobs Decline

1 Boonsri Dickinson, BYTE | December 24, 2012 09:05 AM

Category: Smartphones

My job is a full-time journalist, where I sit behind a desk and type up my stories — occasionally taking breaks to interview sources.

For knowledge workers, work means sitting at a desk, drinking coffee — and checking their mobile phone to see the latest status update on Facebook. It rarely involves physical labor. But that's set to change. Due to mobile phones and broadband availability, the future of work may look less like sitting behind a desk, and more like my ride to work this morning.

Technology Disrupting Transportation

I ordered a Lyft ride, a new service in San Francisco that connects people with cars who want to make extra money by driving customers like me who need a lift. The driver who came to pick me up is actually a music teacher by day. But he has three weeks off so he wanted to make extra money. Without having to pick up more skills, the driver is using resources he already had (his car) to make money. After paying insurance and gas, he told me he makes about $22 an hour, which works out to be about $100 per shift.

The private driver app Uber came first, and its entrance into the marketplace hasn't been without a struggle. Cities have been reacting strongly against mobile technology that threatens to disrupt the old school taxi system. However, the mobile disruption happening in transportation is an indicator of whats to come in other industries.

The End of The 9-to-5 Job

Besides connecting workers with customers, the mobile work force may soon change the face of the typical office. As unemployment rates continue to look dismal, work is beginning to move away from long-term commitments to more project-based or freelance work.

Erik Brynjolfsson thinks about the future of work a lot, as a result of the era of automation. Brynjolfsson, the director of the MIT Center for Digital Business, said "I think we'll see a lot more of this as transaction costs and search costs and [as] search costs fall with new technologies, the old jobs disappear."

By "old" job, he means the 9-to-5 job, where an employee goes in and has a pretty structured work day. In a NY Times article about fitness trainers, Brynjolfsson said the 9-to-5 secure job is becoming more scarce, and people will need to hustle to make a living.

Josh Elman, a Principal at Greylock, a venture capitalist firm, thinks work is becoming more project-based. Elman has worked on launches and management of products at Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin.

Elman said that when he was at LinkedIn, "we thought [work] was all networked-based. You would amass connections over your career and then leverage your network for new opportunities, important connections (sales, business development, and investment), advice, and expertise. What I see changing most now it that jobs and careers seem more project-based instead of company-based. The freelance economy is huge — whether it's just companies such as Uber, Taskrabbit, Gigwalk or like oDesk, 99 Designs, or marketplaces like Behance orContently get this to be higher and higher end."

The Internet has allowed for workers to be geographically independent. Even at United Business Media, the publisher of Byte and my employer, many employees work from home or over 150 offices around the world. There are types of creative outfits such as PeoplePerHour that allow people to post jobs they are willing to do, or Fiverr is a service that lets people perform various tasks for $5.

Geographical Independence

However, the most popular telecommuting company oDesk, connects professionals with temporary work and has made work available to those who live many miles or time zones away from where the work is, allowing for a more distributed work force.

Gary Swart, CEO of oDesk, said "we are seeing quite the opposite of project based work. One type of work is project based and the other is position based. I think of it as companies are trying to hire mobile app developers, they want to hire them and keep working with them. The work is mostly paid by the hour. The workers get hired and fired based on results, and are paid by performance."

The hours worked on oDesk has grown eight-fold since 2009, Swart said, which is an indication that it is "position-based" hire that is in demand.

While the trend started with tech work, where there are early adopters, Swart said he is seeing growth in non-tech areas such as design, customer service, and virtual assistant. He's also seeing more growth globally as larger companies adopt a more temporary workforce.

By 2020, one in three people will work online as opposed to in an office. Swart said many companies are struggling to find talent in their local geography. They want the flexibility to get the skills when they get them. Despite the fact that unemployment is at an all-time high, Swart said oDesk is seeing a competitive job market.

"We have to compete against Google and Amazon, and worry about retention and engagement. Companies are looking for getting most value for people, by re-evaluating fixed cost with employees and real-estate costs," he added.

Companies are hiring on oDesk for web programming, data entry, SEO, Web research, Web design, personal assistant, customer service, mobile apps, graphic design, and blog and article writing. The skills most in demand are HR/Payroll, statistical analysis, customer service and support, print design, database administration, advertising, game development, mobile apps, illustration, and engineering and technical design.

The fact that workers can share documents and collaborate via Skype and Google+ Hangouts is changing the way people work. Workers no longer need to be in the same physical location to work together on a project in real-time.

Swart also mentioned is globalization as driving workers online. "The world is truly flat and getting flatter. And that is evidenced by clients who want access to talent across boarders. Nearly 30-percent of the hours billed in the United States originate off-shore. Clients want access to folks in the U.S. because Americans have a culture understanding that they want," Swart said. The Internet, globalization, and the economy are drivers to this on both sides, for companies and individuals. Like e-commerce, there's a massive market that wants to buy things via the web. Consumers are okay with paying for the goods, regardless of where they come from. Swart pointed out that 10 years ago, consumers weren't quite willing to do that.

More Mobile Workers

The workplace is set for a change too. What happens when you deploy thousands of mobile workers and pay them immediately after they complete a task? The next significant platform won't just let workers communicate and share links, but will potentially allow them to earn more money than they would if they were to work close to their homes.


GigWalk is a startup based in San Francisco that is finding that many companies are eager to outsource tasks. For instance, Microsoft has signed a big deal with GigWalk to populate its Bing Maps with photos of 100,000 locations around the US.

To test out a task-based job, I signed up for a GigWalk with the potential to earn $5 for snapping a few photos. I walked two blocks to Temple Night club to complete the task. At first, it seemed like there were too many instructions, but I eventually figured them out.

The people were setting up for an event as I went in. I took two exterior shots and two interior shots. I thought taking the panoramic shot was difficult. I must have spun in circles for 10 minutes. I'm surprised they didn't kick me out.

I failed at the task that I signed up for because I didn't upload my photos within the allotted three hours. So if you want to sign up with GigWalk, make sure you have enough time for the mission, which is flexible depending on with one you select.

I went to visit Bob Bahramipour, founder and CEO of GigWalk at his office in San Francisco. The contractors at GigWalk use their own devices to enter into the job force. Businesses are hiring people for temporary work, and not necessarily for work that LinkedIn promotes — which Bahramipour describes as white-collar jobs.


In the past, businesses had to hire thousands of people and give them a device or computer. But now that people generally have their own devices, it's easier to hire temporary workers. Some clients are using the GigWalk platform to hire people to go into stores to find out how products are placed onto shelves and to collect the data from the stores. In general, companies are using GigWalk to hire a workforce to do a job using the instruction on their handheld devices. By making a much more efficient investment in workers, companies are reducing capital costs and avoiding acquiring devices that would otherwise become obsolete.

Bahramipour also said the fact that all workers must check-in and complete their task, allows them to collect data on how well they performed. "It's the best way to solve the employee matching problem. Today on GigWalk, we can dissect the gig, feed it to an algorithm and, based on their past behavior, know what time they show up, and how long it takes them to complete a job," he said. This all adds up, and allows the workers to have a data centric profile, revealing if they are valuable or likely to not showing up.

In just the last year, GigWalk has collected more than 1 billion data points on the Gigwalk workforce in the field. Bahramipour thinks that his company probably knows more about its workers than anyone has ever known in the history of workforces.

"Through our mobile platform we have an unprecedented window into Gigwalkers out in the world; we can observe promptness, reliability, productivity rates, responsiveness, successes, failures, and demonstrated skills," Bahramipour said. "We believe workforce-in-the-cloud will be the dominant model in the future — both for high-skilled, permanent jobs as well as temp jobs. Mobility gives workers more flexibility than ever to choose when, how, and what they want to work on. For businesses, mobility means that companies can instantly hire, organize, and deploy any number of qualified workers in the field in any location without the overhead of maintaining a standing army."

Targeting the consumer market is a similar service called Exec. Distributed workers is the next big platform, said Justin Kan, co-founder of Exec. There are currently 300 Execs in the Exec network, which began in San Francisco and has expanded to other parts of the Bay Area.

"Everyone has these smartphones in their pockets. Exec and Gigwalk are on-demand labor forces. Previously, if you needed someone to do the work we are doing, you needed to hire them for a long period of time to make it work out economically. But now you can aggregate people's demand to make jobs for people. It's very futuristic. Paying for results can be good for the customer, but it means that people aren't making that much money. Our goal is to create a platform, allowing many people who can put jobs up and match them to people who can perform the jobs." Referring to the cleaning vertical, "the Execs come with supplies in-hand, making it easier for the customers. That's that intention."

Top categories that people use Exec labor for, Kan said, include pick up and delivery, cleaning, furniture assembly, moving, and research. Here's an example of what you can get an Exec to do:

Work Itself Is Changing

The very nature of work is changing due to the type of work that is in demand. Famous Internet security researcher Dan Kaminsky said "It's just complicated. Nonlinear in deep ways, which makes fair return on effort hard to compute. First there was a linear relationship between how many people worked and what you got. N field hands, n strawberries. Then there was an assembly line or distribution model. N builders and shippers and sellers, n cars. Now… it's messy. Work isn't dead. Flat work is dying. There's literally not enough work to go around and society doesn't know what to do about that."

Kaminsky explained that if you have 100 times the field hands you can harvest 100 times more strawberries. If you have 100 times the developers, it's different. You better be working on an easily- decomposable system. It's hard to find single problems that take a lot of it without layers of distribution, he said.

Smartphone apps don't have to be games, chat, or news focused. They can be used for finding work, he added.

"We're living in a time where the nature of business itself has quickened — requiring ever more creativity and adaptability. Instead of bemoaning the talent battle, a new viewpoint on hiring talent is emerging where small companies and entrepreneurs are able to bring on people for shorter contracts and build a great relationship through the work itself," said Tom Chi, chief product officer at Mango Labs, a startup aimed at using smartphones to connect people with work.

"This provides tremendous flexibility for a new business, and helps them act on opportunities for growth and evaluate full-time hires. My organization has just released an app called Higher that brings down the time of hiring great contract talent from five weeks to five minutes. It's part of a growing trend where our devices will enable new modalities of work," Chi added.

Security, Still An Issue

But that doesn't mean you have to compromise security.

OpenDNS founder David Ulevitch thinks the distribution of mobile workers enables a new class of workers.

He calls this class of workers "nomadic workers."

"Cloud applications, and the rise of smartphones and tablets have changed the way we work. IT folks have lost visibility because traffic now starts outside their network and goes to the cloud. When you lose visibility you lose the ability to have control. And without control you lose the ability to enforce policy. And without policy, you lose the ability to maintain enterprise security. And it's already happened. Users and organizations have moved to the cloud, and they are more nomadic than ever before, working from home, Starbucks, or the airport," Ulevitch said.

"Moreover, all these new devices are insecure by default, and the security industry hasn't kept up. So we're witnessing a dramatic expansion of the threat surface, and threat landscape, combined with the wanton disregard of security best practices (endpoint software, network security visibility). It's all going to add up to some bad Code Red or Melissa Worm style stuff on mobile," he added.

But for those looking to make some extra cash, the barrier to entry is owning a mobile phone. The security issues are simply an after-thought when you have bills to pay.

Boonsri Dickinson is the Associate Editor of BYTE

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[RANKED] The 8 Best Video Chat Services

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The front facing camera is a requirement on today's gadgets, whether it's a laptop, tablet, or smartphone.

In our experience the front camera isn't used as often as it should be.

Spice up your next meeting by sharing your computer's screen, showing your face, collaborating on a document, or chatting with a friend.

The following services aim to make video chatting simple and easy.

8. WebEx: If you want to go corporate

WebEx from Cisco is the corporate champion. The service allows video conferencing and can support desktop sharing for almost an unlimited audience. 

WebEx offers three plans.

The first is free, it supports up to three users simultaneously, the second is $24 per month and supports up to 8 users with high def video, and the third can support up to 25 people in a single meeting in high def for $49 per month.

7. TeamViewer

Team Viewer

TeamViewer has a meetings feature built into its overarching product. It is designed for online meetings, team work, training, and presentations.

Even when you're on the road you don't have to miss out on an important meeting because there is a mobile version available as well.

TeamViewer is designed specifically for businesses and corporation so it does not come cheap. 

The business version is $749 per year, the premium plan is $1,499, and the corporate version will set you back $2,690.

6. FaceTime

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FaceTime isn't a screen sharing service per se but you can use it if you work in an Apple friendly environment. 

It's available on all Mac computers, iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad. You must have a wifi connection in order for it to work on the mobile devices.

An added plus is that FaceTime for Macs pushes HD quality video.

5. Google Plus Hangouts

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Google+ hangouts aren't specifically for work but can be an alternative to the business specific video services. 

Hangouts allow you to start a video chat with up to 9 people simultaneously.

Individuals looking to collaborate should definitely consider taking advantage of Google+. It's free and built into your web browser so there isn't an extra program to download.

4. join.me

Join Me

Join.me is super simple to use. The site makes it easy to share your screen for collaboration, training, helping others or showing off.

Join.me has a free basic plan but offers a pro plan too. 

The pro version is $19.99 per month and offers everything in the free version, plus unified audio, presenter swap, pro desktop app, personal link & background, meeting schedule, international conference lines, and much more.

3. Meetings IO

Meetings IO makes it easy to host a virtual meeting or just hang out with friends.

The service lets you see individuals face to face to help facilitate discussion and increase collaboration. You can also easily share your screen.

2. Skype

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Skype is pretty much synonymous with "video chat" nowadays.

It makes it easy to see coworkers, conduct interviews, share screens and more.

The best thing about Skype is its ease of use and free price tag. You can also use skype to make phone calls over the web.

1. ooVoo

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ooVoo is one of our favorite services. It is a video chat client available for Facebook, Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, and Android.

ooVoo allows you to make video calls, send text messages, and securely share files (up to 5MB) for free.

The company also offers more features through two paid plans,ooVoo Pro and ooVoo Plus. In addition to having access to all of the free features paid users can record video calls, video conference with up to 12 people, securely send up to 25 MB, and much more.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/best-video-chat-services-2012-7?op=1#ixzz2G4Xb40CE