socalTECH notes that Business.com has officially taken the wraps off their new job site, Work.com, noting that: “The company reports that its beta test of the service has attracted 400,000 professionals a month looking to connect with employers.” Note that…

With all the “2.0” talk these days (Web, Identity, Where, etc), I thought I’d quickly react to this piece by John Battelle criticizing Google’s (lack of) advertiser customer service by relaying two of my recent experiences… First, Feedster. I blew…

Dear Newspaper Friends: So I’ve been waiting… and waiting… and… still no RSS from ShopLocal.com. RSS is slowly but surely finding its way into your newspapers and (some sections of your) classifieds, but nothing from a service for which RSS…

I received an email (hat tip and thanks: M.B.) about the launch of JobCentral.com, the new employment site by former Monster founder, William (Bill) Warren. A few things of note: 1. Warren is leveraging an association named DirectEmployers (it’s unclear…

Well, not exactly. Yeah, I’m dropping names, but not to try to impress you with how important I am [laugh], but rather, the very cool people that I’ve had the distinct privilege to meet and/or chat with in-person over the…

Game on! Yahoo has just announced (and launched) a “beta” personalized search mechanism named My Web (a rebranding and enhancement to its previous My Yahoo Search offering). There’s a lot here, so let’s try to break it down. First, you…

During the cleverly named Mapping the Future of Local Search session at last week’s Kelsey conference, conference attendees learned a key piece of jargon for conceptualizing how map providers think of annotating basic map presentation; overlays. A bit of buzz…

ClickZ breaks the story that Google AdSense is now offering advertisers the ability to target at the site level; this ability will be coupled with an auction-based CPM pricing model and animated .GIF placement. Writes ClickZ editor Pamela Parker: “Using…

Spend a couple of days at a conference and the world passes you by. Some headlines and brief comments for topics of (potential) interest… MSN Spaces has 7MM blogs and is growing at 100K a day [Blog Hearld]. Love it…

The Blog Hearld broke the story this morning about the launch of Feedster Media Network (FMN). As I’m included in the launch but have yet to receive a copy of the press release (ahem), I’ll keep my comments high level.…