Controversial start-up NotchUp is doing pretty well according to a recent e-mail blast sent to users.
To date, over 1,000 companies have contacted us about using NotchUp to recruit – everyone from Fortune 500 companies and some of the biggest names in the technology field to a variety of hot startups.
Conservatively assuming an average of $100 […]

Let’s see how I did with last year’s predictions. Results in red.
1. It’s litigation, baby! - Like parents shutting down a good party, expect the lawyers to come out in full force in 2006. Between privacy concerns, content rights, technology ownership and everything in between, lawyers will be busy throwing around the wet blankets.
Verdict: Like […]

Google Base still has a long way to go when compared to other Google properties according to the chart below.
However, I assume this is tracking pages that are of http://base.google.com origin only, and does not take into account searches done on Base via a general Web search. Click here for an example. If that’s the […]

Newspaper-owned Topix.net is quietly getting into the free online classifieds game. As you may recall, Topix is basically a bunch of newspapers who hope they can create an online presence competitive to Craigslist, Google Base, Oodle, etc.
First glimpse in my local market of Cleveland shows a pretty sad collection of jobs. I didn’t look at […]

I had a quick sit-down with Peter Weddle during the Kennedy conference last week. Weddle is always insightful - as well as niche’s biggest cheerleader - and shares some interesting opinions about .jobs, Texas hold ‘em and the Blue Man Group (5 mins.):

The long tail got a little longer today. I’ve launched my own online job community: Oaseo.
It targets the search engine optimization and marketing industry exclusively. Call it a micro-niche or a micro-vertical.
Why? On the surface, it may seem like a strange endeavor, but to me it seems like a perfectly logical extension into what I […]

Indiana, a state well known for its basketball heritage, has done a nice head-fake on Monster.
According to a press release, issued by Monster, dated Feb. 1 of this year entitled “Indiana Awards $2.8 Million Contract to Monster Government Solutions to Build a Statewide Online Job Search and Recruitment System,” Monster had a deal signed, sealed […]