Jobs Intelligence: Amazon Video; Yahoo Games Studio; Google Video Conferencing

Some good intelligence coming out of job postings in the last week:

Amazon.com: The company has definitely clamped down on the info it puts in its jobs postings, after the digital music fiasco last month. Now, it is working on a digital video product, as evidenced by these two jobs: “As a product manager, your job is to make sure we build the world’s best digital video store.” and “[experience] working in acquisitions in pay TV or home video”. Going a step further, it will allow some of these digital video offerings to be burned on DVDs, possibly, as evidenced by this job posting: “Content Acquisition Manager (CAM) to expand selection of Amazon’s DVD store, with a particular focus on content to be manufactured on demand.”

Google: It is looking to develop video conferencing, presumably into Google Talk, as evidenced by this posting: “Oversee daily operations of Google’s global video conference program…Manage support personnel assigned to Video Services Group” Update on this: someone e-mailed me that this might be for internal IT services, to improve the company’s internal video conferencing structure. On second thoughts, that’s probably true.

Yahoo: On the entertainment side, it is ramping up its games efforts, and is hiring a game studio head. This means it is getting into original game development, and also expect it to acquire some gaming developers…

As Yahoo has alluded to before, it is building a tech channel..and now it is hiring a product manager for it. And now it has an Open Content group (focused on RSS).

– CNET News.com: Plans to extend its editorial operations into broadband/podcasting and mobile, as evidenced by this posting.

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