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Well over 100 companies will be hiring at London’s SiliconMilkRoundabout job fair this weekend, including social media brands Songkick, Mozllia, Twitter and Shazam, plus there will be over 800 technical jobs up for grabs for attendees. Mobile developers are in hot demand in 2012, with the number of job vacancies is up two thirds year-on-year for Android developers, and over 100% for their iPhone and iPad counterparts, according to Adzuna metrics.

When someone shares a UK event on Facebook, online events outfit Eventbrite says it generates £2.25 in additional gross ticket sales on average. A share on Twitter drives an average of £1.80, while an event shared on LinkedIn generates an average of £1.24 in additional event revenue.

This year, Fallon Festival 2012 is saluting Shift. What is it? Well, it’s all about cultural, social, technological or environmental changes to our world, and about the agency “seeking to stay across the major shifts in business and society, in order to keep our work relevant and impactful,” according to Gail Gallie, CEO of Fallon London.

SXSW and Facebook are a match, with over 200,000 people liking SXSW on the Social Network. But what else appeals to these festival-going social-media types? Well, Johnny Cash and Radiohead are among the most-liked artists in this crowd. And on TV they enjoy Dexter (20%) and Weeds (18%).

Ogilvy & Mather is off to SXSW, and is taking along a bunch of skilled ‘note taking’ artists to create visual representations of SXSW Interactive sessions and events throughout the five day get-together to be published daily on Ogilvy Notes. Last year, the agency rolled out Ogilvy Notes to facilitate conversation and develop a community platform to share ideas from SXSWi by capturing key messages and lessons from over 100 presentations with daily thought-picture blog posts.

Tweet Lamps got a public outing in London at the Kinetica Art Fair. What are they? Well, Tweet Lamps come in a deceptively simple formation of a half-dozen light bulbs. They are powered, however, by social media – whenever certain topics are tweeted, a programme picks up the post and the appropriately tagged lamps flash.

Power To The Pixel is back with the third iteration of its cross-media course, The Pixel Lab, in Potsdam, Germany, at the beginning of July. Participants will develop the skills to create, finance and distribute cross-media stories spanning any combination of film, interactive, live event, mobile, gaming, TV, publishing and online.

Getmemedia.com is offering brands the opportunity to work together with British boy band The Wanted across a range of platforms. Partners can become headline partner of The Wanted 2012 Tour, an association which will include promotion across all nine Capital Radio stations across the UK, as well as prominent visibility at Capitalfm.com, plus branding on TheWantedMusic.com, and on all newsletters to the band’s 150,000-strong database.