I was tough on Jobster last week in regards to what I believed to be deceptive marketing. Exemplified by their latest round of “Notes,” which, by the way, “get a TON of positive feedback from users saying they love” them (yes folks, tons!), they’ve brought the chest-beating down a bit.
Looks like your group is hiring. […]

In light of a recent price increase from 20 to 25 cents per click, compliments of Simply Hired, a job board owner, who will go unnamed, vented his displeasure to me with what he referred to as an “unnecessary middleman.”
They are doing nothing but driving up our job seeker acquisition costs and cluttering the […]

This one’s for all the domainers out there. Well, the domainers might already know this stuff, so maybe it’s for the non-domainers.
You’re no doubt familiar with the fact that numbers on a telephone keypad are associated with letters. The number “2″ represents A, B and C, for example. The practice is a little less common […]

Always one for great timing, a day after Monster reports 1.6 million user records getting jacked, our pals at Jobster send out this email:

Yep, say goodbye to your privacy at Jobster, kids. Not very Facebook of them, is it? Why do this? Why now? More traffic for more banner ad revenue? Ah hell, your guess […]

Craigslist practically owns the San Francisco online classifieds market. So, I can’t figure out if it’s ballsy or idiocy that Monster has partnered with the San Francisco Examiner.

Monetary terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it’s safe to assume Monster opened the wallet for this one.
While The Examiner gets a strong brand name and […]

In case you missed it, it’s about to get very uncomfortable for the kids in Maynard.
According to Symantec security analyst Amado Hidalgo, a new Trojan horse called Infostealer.Monstres has stolen more than 1.6 million records belonging to several hundred thousand people from Monster Worldwide Inc.’s job search service.
More from the blogosphere.

With a redesign of Cheezhead in the works, I found Toby Dayton’s recent blog post entitled Why Daily Newspaper Web Sites Will Never Win quite timely. In it, he derides the Star Tribune for unnecessary, downright ugly advertising.
… the Star Tribune has somehow decided that it’s a good thing to have background ‘wallpaper’ behind their […]