links for 2007-12-29

Last week, Google tweaked Google Reader so that your shared items are automatically made available to your Google Talk contacts. But not all of your IM contacts are friends. Many are acquaintances with whom you may not want to share a reading list.

Google is desperately trying to become a force in social networking. It wants to make many of its applications and services more “social,” to, for example, tell your friends what you are reading with Reader or cataloging with MyMaps.

With the addition of Schoonover’s world-renowned consulting services, Salary.com establishes the industry’s premier competency management data and consulting services group.

Tata Strategic Management Group (TSMG), which began as an in-house consulting arm in 1991, has in the last two years grown to become the third largest strategic consulting firm in India in terms of billable consultants.