Jane’s Pick of the Day: 28 August

1 – Coursera partners with Amara for crowdsourced captioning – GigaOm

Lectures from Stanford, Rice, Duke, UCSF and a dozen other schools are being made freely available worldwide in dozens of languages, thanks to a partnership between online education startup Coursera and crowdsourced captioning service Amara. All of the captions are contributed by volunteers.

2 - The IBM-Kenexa Deal Further Shows Talent Management Is Dead - Workforce

Big Blue doesn’t see talent management as big. Or at least not as big as data mining and social networking. And I’d say IBM is right.