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biz 2.0’s 7 habits of highly effective bloggers

If you haven’t yet, go pick up the new Business 2.0, cover story “Blogging for Dollars.” In it, they outline their 7 keys to success (my comments in parentheses). Focus intently on a narrow niche (yeah, something like Internet recruiting would work). Set up your blog so that each post gets its own permanent URL (search engine [...]

google base api launches (or add google base job content to your site for free)

The quest for vertical search engines and other job sites to add content to other sites, such as blogs, just got a little tougher. Google Base’s API is now live. Oh yeah, it’s free. With the new Google Base data API, you can create specialized applications that handle such actions programmatically. Your application can upload new [...]

last day - uCheez at $9.99/mo.

Last day of the big launch sale.

monster.com pushes alcohol on unemployed

I swear I can’t make this stuff up, people. While surfing Monster this past weekend, I noticed they were running a banner ad for MGD beer. What’s the targeted message here?: “Hey, forget being jobless, in foreclosure and bankrupt. Have a beer with your buddy Trumpasaurus.”

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goldberg responds to latest craigslist post

In response to my latest post, Jobster head Jason Goldberg says: We were actively working with Craigslist business and technical contacts at all level of their organization prior to our initial product launch. In fact, the day before we went live to our customers, Craigslist confirmed by e-mail that we were fine and all systems go. They [...]

wheels fall off jobster relationship with craigslist

We recently reported on Jobster’s fallout with Craigslist. Via Jobster Direct Post, content had been uploaded onto the popular classifieds site. Recently, however, Craig began blocking such activity. This was initially labeled by Jobster head Jason Goldberg as a “misunderstanding,” certain to work itself out in 5 business days. Update: Whatever was going on is now [...]