YouTube has been gradually adding pop-up style advertisements in their videos for awhile, but this is the first case I’ve seen of MySpace doing it. No surprise, it’s for everywhere-online advertiser, the University of Phoenix.

This particular ad showed up on the National Geographic page and makes its appearance about 10 seconds in and turns into […]

I get asked on a regular basis why I haven’t plugged-in a social network or community into Cheezhead. (”The pageviews are crazy, dude!”) Granted, I dabble in Facebook, but I haven’t infiltrated the main site with user profiles to date. With Ning sites popping-up faster than Roger Clemens accusers, it’s a fair question. And one […]

Yahoo! HotJobs has dumped its date-order results when seeking employment in favor of a Web search-like algorithm. We covered it a few months ago. In addition to it being a regular news item, we thought it made sense to call up Yahoo!’s Kevin Krim and find out more.
Most notably, we wanted to find out how […]

My French is pretty limited - ya’ know, croissant, fromage, bière, the basics. However, with the whole “world is flat” thing, I should probably start learning more than just English. And the growth of job sites in far-off places is a great motivator too.
CareerBuilder.ca has entered a strategic partnership with BRANCHEZ-VOUS! (that’s “You Plug” according […]

Funny, yet slightly disturbing.

Update: Apparently the R-rated nature of the video above was deemed too raunchy for public consumption and has been taken down. (For those who did see it, however, the impression it left won’t soon be forgotten.) Granted, CareerBuilder is no stranger to advertising that pushes the envelope, but they obviously outdid […]

RetirementJobs.com has expanded its team. New members are:
1. Deborah Russell, Director of Workforce Issues at AARP
2. Max Stier, President and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service in Washington, D.C.
3. Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Ph.D., Co-Director of the Boston College Center on Aging and Work/Workplace Flexibility in Newton, MA.
4. Michael Smyer, Ph.D., Co-Director of the Boston College […]

Ogopogo Media, an Internet media company that acquires and develops geotargeted destination and category specific domain names, recently announced it has acquired the rights to Jobs.ca from Domed Technologies, Inc. of Montreal, Canada.
The acquisition of Jobs.ca is the largest published single domain purchase in .ca history. The new ownership plans to create a job […]