We learned last night that Indeed.com has added video to many of its company profile pages. Checkout American Express and its subsequent video page.
The lion’s share of content is taken from Jobing, which, according to Rony Kahan, cofounder of Indeed, has “a lot of videos.” And with Jobing’s embed code, their videos are easily added. […]

Not surprisingly, MySpace partner Simply Hired is the first job site to launch an application on the popular social network via OpenSocial.

There are only 14 installs so far, but it’s very early. We’ll see if more job seekers jump on board in the months to come. If Facebook is any precedent, few MySpacers will add […]

Simply Hired - who we haven’t talked about in awhile - is now integrating LinkedIn contact information into its job search. Just click the blue “in” icon.

Says Sachin Shah, Simply Hired’s director of product management:

As you know, we always had a ‘Who Do I Know’ link which would take you off to LinkedIn’s site, and […]

A recent press release from Hitwise has good news for CareerBuilder, naming it the top visited employment Web site from the previous week.

The asterisk means “the market share of visits percentage does not include traffic for all sub-domains … which are reported on separately.” Click here for more.
In addition to that news, Hitwise helped shed […]

With Monster throwing money at them, there are bound to be more job sites adding a little social networking flavor to their usual offerings. Vertical job search engine GetTheJob.com may be next on the bandwagon.

Says CEO Chris Amato:
Our profiles encourage users to add some personal information about their background without adding any information that could […]

Consider the typical Google experience: Type in query, click search, see results, click and go directly to site. Pretty cut-and-dry. And, for the most part, everyone’s happy.
Now, imagine if - in addition to the process above - Google actually took a portion of your on-page content, say 1,000 characters or so, and made their own […]

Like many in the online classifieds space, I watched the recent auction of Edgeio with great curiosity. The bidding ended today with Looksmart acquiring “most” of the assets for only $280,000. There were just two serious bidders in the process.
I’m not sure this is a good sign for others in the same category. If a […]