By Vanessa Dennis - WorkGorilla is a new auction-style job site where people can bid on small jobs like walking dogs, painting, or plumbing. If you have a chance, check out the site and go bananas.
Continue reading...Friday, September 19, 2008
By Vanessa Dennis - Online marketplace Craigslist will begin charging $25 to post jobs in more cities in an attempt to curb the amount of scams on the jobs portion of their site.
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 3, 2008
By Vanessa Dennis - Craig Newmark, founder of online classifieds site craigslist, has always been emphatic about keeping their trademark interface user-friendly. In an interview last January from SearchEngineWatch, Craig was asked about any future Web 2.0 plans. He said, "We're more like Web 0.1. We make incremental improvements, but we've gotta stay simple, usable, and fast." One has to wonder, though, why the most trafficked classifieds site has yet to develop an application for social networking sites Facebook or myspace. But considering their aversion to change, I wasn't surprised to hear Craig's response to my question.
Continue reading...Sunday, June 22, 2008
By Joel Cheesman - The following e-mail was sent to me by a former CareerBuilder sales rep. The locations and names have been changed to protect the innocent. They discuss how "selling to HR" is a no-no when trying to make the sale.
Continue reading...Friday, June 6, 2008
MSN has pulled the plug on their free online classifieds solutions. WebProNews has a good summary. Check Google for more. Could Google Base be next?
Continue reading...Saturday, May 17, 2008
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark was in Cleveland today (he’s a graduate of CWRU) speaking at a local tech event. Here’s some footage of him talking about the early days of the company (sorry ’bout the audio). Click here for more on Craigslist.
Continue reading...Monday, April 28, 2008
In case you missed it, three employment-related sites have made it onto Silicon Alley Insider’s Top 25 most valuable digital start-ups, dubbed SAI 25. Another is close to breaking into the group. They are: No. 3 - Craigslist ($5 billion) No. 8 - LinkedIn ($1.3 billion) No. 16 - TheLadders ($500 million) (and SAI advertiser) Knocking on the door [...]
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
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