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We’re on the look out for a Community and Marketing Manager to come and join us at The Next Web. You’ll need to be US or EU based, working remotely is possible, but ideally you’ll be based in San Francisco, Amsterdam, London or New York. You’ll be involved with community management, business development, marketing, partnerships, events and advertising/sponsorships. We need a creative, strategic, friendly and outgoing professional. Someone with experience and passion for digital content, someone who knows the importance of community, someone proactive and above all, someone passionate about The Next Web and sharing our content with the world....

It has often been said that we’re now in the decade of ‘mobile’, with Web-enabled pocket rockets, tablets and other portable contraptions helping to ensure we never have to be offline for too long. But the need for speed means that mobile devices typically can’t compete with a good old-fashioned laptop with WiFi or ethernet broadband connection. Speed issues aside, sometimes you simply need a proper computer to work from too....

Sometimes we stumble onto ideas. Last week, as I was trying to come up with an idea for what I’d write about this week, I stumbled onto the fact that I was doing a pretty decent amount of traveling in the next 30 days, and someone asked me how I was going to continue working while I did. That gave me the idea that there were surely some interesting stories about people who had given up on the idea of a traditional office, and in doing so had come up with some unique insights about that fact....

If you’ve been waiting for a CDMA version of the Google/SamsungNexus S, you might be in luck. It seems that Sprint hasa pagein the works for the phone, though all we’re being told is that the page is “coming soon”. Of course that means that it’s time to start the speculation. Obviously, if the phone is moving to Sprint it’s going to be a CDMA version. What we don’t know is whether it will contain the 4G/WiMax function (the GSM Nexus S is 3G-only) or whether we’ll be able to purchase the device unlocked to use with Verizon’s network....

You’ll have to excuse my Android fanboyism during this piece. The fact of the matter is, I had been trying to track down aNexus Ssince the first day that it got confirmed. So when I finally got the notification this past Monday that one was headed my way, I was excited beyond anything that you’ve seen outside of an Apple store the night before a new iPhone. You see, when the Nexus One came around, people talked it up like it was something that the world had never seen before....