Om Malik launched a job board today. I first found out about this when I called Om a few weeks ago to tell him we were launching the CrunchBoard job board. Om congratulated me, and said he’d cover it, but I could just tell by the way he spoke to me that he had something cooking, too. A few phone calls later and it was confirmed.
One thing we want to do with CrunchBoard is create a decentralized job board for tech. Right now it’s completely centralized, other than the fact that RSS feeds are available if people want to read them in a feed reader or re-post them on a website (like we do on CrunchGear and TechCrunch UK).
I didn’t want it to be centralized, though. The first thing we did when we decided to start building CrunchBoard was ping Jason Fried at 37 Signals to talk to him about partnering with their job board. I imagined an API for entering jobs, and an API for outputting jobs, that could be displayed anywhere. Jason didn’t want to partner beyond having me post his listing on TechCrunch, so we built our own.
When I realized Om was building yet another job board I told him flat out I wanted to partner with him, offering to make CrunchBoard a new company and splitting equity with him 50/50. Hell, we could even rename it to something more neutral. Given that TechCrunch has more traffic than GigaOm right now, and that we had already built and launched the board, I thought that was a fair offer.
Om passed on my proposal, and I’m sure he has his reasons. But in my mind, this is all a very web 1.0 way of thinking. I don’t want to have my own garden, a sort of mini monster.com. I want to be a part of an ecosystem. There’s no way we can compete with the big job boards fighting individual battles. We need to partner, create a distributed system, and win virally.
To start, I think we should create a single widget that shows all of the jobs listed by 37 Signals, Om and CrunchBoard. That’s the right thing to do for the companies. We also need to allow other websites to join the network and get a fair revenue split (read: large majority) for bringing listings or potential employees to the service.
Job boards are trivially easy to build. The hard part is the network effect. Just as blogs are ripping apart big media, a decentralized approach to job listings and other businesses can win, too.
I’m in. Who’s with me?
Wasn’t this called Edgeio?
Widget for all the listings: http://sandbox.sourcelabs.com/bozpage/?hy2
I think you are on the right track with this one. We made some suggestions in an earlier post on our blog, when we posted about ProBlogger’s new Job Board. I think a decentralized system is going to be key, as well as making sure that employers are getting real good candidates through the system. Right now, I know that most employers that I have talked to have not had much success with any of these new job boards, this decentralization and widgetization might do the trick. Also new services like BuildV1.com are popping up that aim to bring people together as well. Things will get interesting in this space, but something innovative needs to be done and decentralization is definately a smart way to go about it once more people start playing ball.
Mike.
I’m in, I was just thinking about this 5 minutes before i saw this post. Email me.
I came here from Om’s post about starting a job board, a post that had me laughing and shaking my head. Advertising and various gimmicks like job boards are only temporary and ultimately silly solutions for the question of how to fund online content: the answer is micropayments.
Mike,
I’d posted this as a comment to your post related to the Crunchboard launch on TC.
Considering the popularity of TechCrunch and its highly targeted audience, you should probably also start a service where other successful entrepreneurs would be willing to mentor others.
I am pretty sure that there will be others like me, who would pay for such a mentoring service.
Another thought: Probably provide a forum where I can connect with others and possibly find a suitable partner for my entrepreneurial venture ?
just some random ideas / thoughts that came to mind.
thanks
I agree with all that you said, and by saying this publicly you virtually assure that your idea will gain traction. Who knows, it could even influence the silo companies into becoming platform companies.
Anyway, I’m interested in designing an API for you. I have some experience in this area.
[...] Mike Arrington proposes the creation of an open API for job boards. “I donÕt want to have my own garden, a sort of mini monster.com. I want to be a part of an ecosystem.” Amen. [...]
The aggregator / decentralized route is definitely the way to go Michael.
In the UK it comes in the shape of Chinwag Jobs which launched recently, except that it’s for the whole new media industry (well, we are smaller) but
with tags and other evolving 2.0 features, etc.
I guess a US equivalent or somesuch will emerge eventually. Hard to believe the UK’s a wee bit
ahead for once! (apart from in the mobile sector of course)
As for widgetization as Hiten mentions - now that could be HUGE… hope Ivan Pope picks up on that one!
[...] Did Mike Arrington just call Om Malik “Web 1.0″? When I realized Om was building yet another job board I told him flat out I wanted to partner with him, offering to make CrunchBoard a new company and splitting equity with him 50/50. Hell, we could even rename it to something more neutral. Given that TechCrunch has more traffic than GigaOm right now, and that we had already built and launched the board, I thought that was a fair offer. [...]
What made Monster such a resounding success was that an online job board had never been done well before - and Monster killed it. Sure, it’s a walled garden, but given the marketplace Monster was launched into, that didn’t matter.
No longer. Data, especially stuff like jobs, needs to be de-centralized if it’s to be any real value to job seekers.
Having to sift through multiple sites like CrunchBoard, GigaOM and 37signals (and its brethren), plus all of the other start-ups, is a huge pain. And a mess. And so very backwards.
I think it is a cool idea.
How could we addapt that to be a little more user specific. … For example, I want to build a job board for everyone that graduated from Fallbrook H.S. (http://www.classannual.com/) so that the alumni could support their friends first, then others second. … Sort of a social relevance added to qualifications.
Jack
Before designing anything new, please take a look at the work that has already been done. Some links for starters:
hResume microformat
RDF Schema for resumes
Niall Kennedy has done his own resume in Atom
Personally I’d opt for the best of all these - use the RDF model to enable tagging, social networking, etc, with an implementation based on a triple store. Data could be primarily be passed from site to site via the Atom Publishing Protocol, its symmetry suits a job like this. For user interface, the same data could be presented in hResume, allowing other microformat-savvy tools (including browsers!) to GET the information.
[...] Update: Mike over at the CrunchNotes blog has some interesting things to say about GigaOM Jobs. I think his idea has merit - what do you think? Here is what he had to say: When I realized Om was building yet another job board I told him flat out I wanted to partner with him, offering to make CrunchBoard a new company and splitting equity with him 50/50. Hell, we could even rename it to something more neutral. Given that TechCrunch has more traffic than GigaOm right now, and that we had already built and launched the board, I thought that was a fair offer. [...]
TechCrunch is a niche social network waiting to happen…
I think OM launching his job board is a good thing for Monster, Craigslist and everyone else. It really hurts you, OM and 37signals. There is no differentiation among the products, people are going to be torn on which one to post and it will spread out the market. I think consolidating it into one would be a very powerful force.
Have you talked with Mark from Good Experience on partnering?
‘To start, I think we should create a single widget that shows all of the jobs listed by 37 Signals, Om and CrunchBoard. That’s the right thing to do for the companies. … we should turn this into a stand alone company and split up equity. We also need to allow other websites to join the network and get a fair revenue split (read: large majority) for bringing listings or potential employees to the service.’
It certainly cries out for a widget that can self-distribute. But why stop at revenue split? Who decides that the first three parts of the network own the equity? Why not create a widget that carries equity as an incentive to install? A widget that allows any network, large or small, to buy in to ownership by carrying the widget?
I kinda agree with you Mike. But then again the fact that each blog has a niche group of readers also makes that valuable. By partnering I know you may not actually mean sharing the job listings but if you did and then you suddenly have huge numbers of jobs then you basically become a board like Monster. There is no other reason to go to Monster than to look for a job. But the fact is that advertisers aren’t as interested in people looking for jobs as they are in people who have certain skills and interests. It’s one of the reason’s I like 37Signals board, because the focus on their reader’s niche. It has real value for the advertiser, and real value for the job-seeker in that niche. If the board is suddenly filled with a bunch of irrelevant jobs then people switch off and the advertiser gets less value.
We are building a job board into the new radrails.org. It will be specifically for Rails/Eclipse job postings but I am always open to an API. I also have experience in this area and am willing to collaborate. I think these job boards are working on a micro-community level but could benefit where there is overlap. Mike, contact me if you want to talk more about this.
Obliquely related discussion on Vitamin about mircroformats which could be used for job boards.
http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/design/how-to-use-microformats
Mike,
I am in. I have a tech company but no job board. I would build a job board if I had some available programmers. Kind of a catch22. I like the idea of having my own job board. Is it wrong to grab all the good programmers first? Seriously I would love to talk.
If we could hammer out a smart revenue sharing system for job sources and the sites that list the jobs, STIRR is happy to discuss (we’re launching our talent board shortly). Google has proven pay for performance is a killer model, it could be applied to job listings as well.
mike = think different:)
37s are just a cult…all words, no action.
I think websites like jobster, simplyhired, and indeed do it for me, however, if gigaom and 37 signals would not partner with you, than more power to you techcrunch, because you are definately the leader of tech startup news.
You definately could add a little more functionality to crunchboard.
We’re got a niche job site for developers looking for work in Django.
It’s been around for 3-4 months now.
I don’t mind opening up the API.. (it has RSS feeds now) but I’m not sure how what you are planning is different than what indeed.com are doing.
regards
Ian
you are so on it mike.
Sadly, I think that due to the nature of these job boards (and the purpose they serve the people hosting them), that collaboration and an open API are very unlikely. My thoughts are here:
http://www.martingordon.org/blog/2006/08/25/job-boards-and-the-quest-for-open-standards/
I propose a similar solution to what Dave Winer is doing with mobile newsriver. Have a job-listing mash-up site that takes the RSS feeds from both Crunch and Om as well as any other smaller job-listing sites.
Of course, this doesn’t support the ability to get the jobs listed. So, after Crunch builds the job-posting API and that is implemented into the mash-up site, I’m sure the other involved job-posting sites will come on board. Sounds like a cool solution to me and I’m sure monetary arrangements could be profitable for all involved.
Wish I had some time to build the initial mash-up. Wouldn’t be hard and would be fun. Anyone willing to split the work? Hit my blog. Then again, I just laid out my whole plan
Yours for the taking.
[...] Mike Arrington proposes the creation of an open API for job boards. “I don’t want to have my own garden, a sort of mini monster.com. I want to be a part of an ecosystem.” Amen. [...]
Mike - indeed, an interesting idea. However, does the Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0 distinction refer to people’s desire for personal success? If you are expecting others to give up what they may envision as a mini-monopoly, or potentially large brand they they own 100% and can get the notoriety for 100%, then that may be asking a lot. In my opinion greed is one factor that created the last bubble (and burst it), and that as Gordon Gekko refers, it is just part of human nature. There seems to be quite a number of people becoming mini-celebrities around here, and I would imagine that while you are truly all helping each other (and the industry) grow, there must be some level of competition for some people. If things turn south a bit in the tech world, there may be a land grab. That said - your idea makes a lot of sense, and it would be great to see it happen. However, I am also not surprised if other people/companies try to do it on their own. Thanks!
When you launched CrunchBoards I imediately realized there was something in aggregating job boards - knowing that there was already the 37Signals and expecting there to be a few more.
Now we have Om’s too, and I don’t think we’ve seen the last of them either.
So I’ve started spending some time thinking about this and… well I’ve just scratched a paragraph or so as I think I’ll keep my cards a little close to my chest for the time being!
The point is that I do think that the long term success of these boards — in their current state — is potentially questionable. The idea certainly doesn’t scale and could get to a point where you have too many jobs coming in and it makes far better sense to create a more ‘traditional job site’.
That’s fine for you and Om and you can adapt your propositions accordingly - I don’t think it means you loose your marketshare it just means you have to change the way the websites work.
Point is, the minute you guys ‘go large’ and create proper job networks is when these aggregation ideas potentially fall down. In otherwords, does the aggregation scale to same degree as the job board websites… I’m not sure.
But it will be fun to run, if only for 12 months or so.
What are the rights on the job feeds? Are you doing anything to explicitly greenlight people aggregating them?
[...] Mike Arrington proposes the creation of an open API for job boards. “I don’t want to have my own garden, a sort of mini monster.com. I want to be a part of an ecosystem.” Amen. [...]
Mike you’re so full of shit, and everyone who agrees with him, get your heads out of your asses. I can very quickly prove why Mike’s comments are based out of fear of losing out to Om, not out of a need for more decentralization and openness (Mike’s blog attracts wannabees, developers and dreamers, people without enough practicle experience to know that all Techcrunch profiles are features, not companies (Renkoo anyone?) Om’s attracts serious businesspeople with down to earth journalism grounded in thorough analysis. Who do you think will win when the bubble bursts? I think Om’s job board is a great idea, and his decision not to partner with Techcrunch is smart. In a couple of years techcrunch = sockpuppet.
So here’s the test - anyone out there with your own blog, put up a job site and ask to partner with Mike - I mean partner to split the revenue/profits from whatever the combined job board makes. See how fast Mike responds.
Don’t hold your breath.
Each site has their own core user base and any advertisements within are best when aimed for that audience. 37signals attracts Ruby developers, GigaOm attracts telecom types, and TechCrunch might attract JavaScript coders.
The success of each relies on the quality of the leads, not just the placement of a single listing. Each site should command a premium in their specialties, and over time the CPL/CPA will be evaluated for each.
Since all three companies target startups you provide value by providing the signal to noise that Monster cannot.
Mike,
I’m certainly no great evangelist, but this is the basic goal of http://freecruiter.org - the open job directory. And it has an API.
An open OPML listing of job feeds. I can’t explain it all here. Email me.
I think what you are describing is the goal of the Structured Blogging initiative - http://structuredblogging.org/ , though I’m not totally up on what it going on with that organization. When I first heard about it, the example that was given to me was around job listings.
[...] Mike Arrington proposes the creation of an open API for job boards. “I don’t want to have my own garden, a sort of mini monster.com. I want to be a part of an ecosystem.” Amen. [...]
Have you considered partnering with one of the job search engines: Indeed, SimplyHired, or Jobster. Indeed is powering Gawker jobs: http://www.gawker.com/jobs/. It would seem like you could do something similar.
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[...] Crunchboard Job Board — $200/listing per month [...]
[...] UPDATE: Turns out Michael Arrington has already been looking at a job board aggregator. [...]
Mike, this is an issue we’re thinking about carefully at Seeking Alpha, because we’re the fastest growing stock-market website and we’re heavily read by investment professionals, so job listings are a natural fit. I’ve written an article with a wish-list of the product we’re looking for; let me know whether this is consistent with your proposal.
http://internet.seekingalpha.com/article/16031
[...] Michael Arrington over at Techcrunch and Crunchnotes has started a job-board. Why not, one may ask? He is an a-list blogger, presides over much of the what is cool and uncool in the Web 2.0 space, is very interesting read and gets stacks of traffic of the sort that look for tech jobs. OM Malik has done the same, and Michael is a bit put out that they didn’t do it in partnership. He levels the lowest of 2.0 insults, the 1.0 thinking label, shudder, with the wall building double whammy blow. thump… [...]
Our take if you’re interested.
I’m in. We can handle the design folks…
You cannot simply break the barrier by climbing over barrier. Its too hard. You have however take pieces of the barrier away ( erroding the barrier ) and that’s what the Jason’s point is.
hi Michael
JobThread already has a turnkey platform to power job boards for niche publishers, organizations and groups. Below are a few of the larger sites that recently launched a board using JobThread:
Salon (http://jobs.salon.com)
TreeHugger (http://jobs.treehugger.com)
alarm:clock, tech:gigger (http://jobs.techgigger.com)
And here’s an example of a professional organization:
nextNY (http://nextny.jobthread.com)
Would love to chat if you think there’s a way to work together.
very best,
eric
Eric Yoon, JobThread, Inc.
eric@jobthread.com
http://www.JobThread.com
[...] APIs for jobboards. Sounds like some of the ideas I was pitching to Tribe - three years ago. [...]
Mike,
I’m in. It’s very doable with both social networking and changing the rules in your favor. Email me for details on an Open Talent plan that blows the doors off every job board idea.
Irwin
Hey y’all
I’m new here. What does it mean to have a “decentralized” job board and why is it such a good idea?
Janet
[...] While reading Red Herring’s take on the job board proposals being thrown about (see my previous post and comments), I couldn’t help thinking that Om, Jason and I are negotiating through press quotes. Jason has clearly stated his intention to keep his toys to himself and play in his own space, Om’s keeping his options open and I’m just hyping this like hell to anyone who’ll listen. The fact that our job boards aren’t any of our core businesses means we can have a bit of fun with this too. For those of you who are interested, I think this is a fascinating example of “negotiating via the press”. [...]
Before you guys can get your act together.. the geek job aggregator is already hot in action
http://www.webjobby.com/
[...] JobSearch 2.0 will have the users creating their own job aggregators via their feedreaders. They will subscribe to job feeds of the online communities that they align themselves with. As corporations open up their brand to their users - they will increasingly add RSS feeds to their job sites. The job seekers will be the ones to drive their job search and subscribe to only the content that they want (again relevancy). Michael Arrington from CrunchBoard brought up the issue of making the job content more portable and easier to distribute by creating a sort of blog job board network with distribution through a widget. Many job focused sites have already opened up their API and are doing just this. Indeed is probably doing the BEST job of finding new ways to distribute job content. While Indeed is still focused on the ‘job’ as their vertical, they are dead on with regard to their ease of job content portability. [...]
Hello Michael,
Interesting idea. It’s one we’ve thought about, but the commercial realities of making a distributed jobs system are fairly thorny. Technically speaking, it’s pretty straightforward and we’d be up for a chat on how it might work.
Commercially however, ownership, revenue splits, and who-does-what can become a headache. It’s all solvable, but it’s worth considering whether it’s worth the effort of solving. Is each site’s niche audience best served by it’s own jobs board?
Perhaps, a better solution would be an API where jobs boards ‘could’ grab vacancies that were suitable for their specific audience e.g. based on skills, ratings, tags, keywords, etc?
Toodle Pip
Sam
[...] 1) ChrunchBoard is not being aggregated by Edgeio (there are no CrunchBoard listings in Edgeio) 2) ChrunchBoard’s new aggregator vision is decidedly Edgeio-esq (As Alex Bosworth points out) [...]
Hey Hitchhiker - I put this on your site but thought it worth re-doing here:
Well, I have to have a bit of a giggle to myself over this one. Wow - the things one can dream up in the absense of hard facts.
Bottom line - edgeio is alive and well. We might well reach our first 1 million listings this week (not bad for 23 weeks of operations). The daily average per month has risen from less than 1000 in May to more than 8000 today. We have listings from over 12500 cities, from 130 cities. Try changing your edgeio city to Shaghai and check out the Chinese listings. We are in the top 3 listings sites in China already.
And then there is Mike. Mike is a board director at edgeio. He is a great assett, a friend and advisor. But he has never been operational in edgeio. So no change there. The blogosphere described edgeio as “Mike Arrington’s startup” but Mike himself has never obscured his role as co-founder and board member.
Mike started TechCrunch (disclosure I am a shareholder) over 12 months ago. edgeio launched in March (6 months ago). Mike was always co-founder and board member and I was the founder/ceo. Really, the only change is that the world is now more aware of the reality. And our investors - all know the facts and have seen no change since day 1, apart from our growth as a global aggregator and distributor of listings.
So … Sorry to dissapoint. The truth is really way more boring than the dream.
On Crunchboard - edgeio does indeed aggregate it’s listings. Check them out here: http://www.edgeio.com/site/32168725
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Again sorry to disappoint.
You are right on 1 thing. edgeio can aggregate Mike and Om’s listings today. All they need to do is tag everything “listing”, agree on a common tag (say “web2.0 jobs”) and their own tags (say “crunchboard” and “gigajobs”), and anybody could take a feed from edgeio for either one or both just by selecting the tag or tags. It’s that easy. But Mike is right - both parties have to want to do it. edgeio aggregates listings from willing publishers and distributes them to willing publishers. All that is needed is the will. Mike is also right that having edgeio aggregate is only part of the solution. Both sites would need to provide a common listing interface allowing each to charge for it’s own listings and those of the other, and agree to share revenue. edgeio will have products later this year making this possible.
Oh and on raising money .. remember edgeio raised $1.5m in December. We have 7 employees. So no need to raise $ now. We are already earning revenue and will announce our next round when it’s the right time. Trust me, it is not a hard sell given our progress.
Hitchhiker, I know you intended no harm with your piece and I hope this clears things up.
Best regards
Keith Teare
ceo/founder/edgeio
[...] Jason has a point as usual, but, man, to really go decentralized, you have to flip the whole model on its head. In which case he half misses the point too (sorry, even though I luv ya man). [...]
[...] So, like James Corbett, I was confused by Mike Arrington’s wording of “decentralised job board for tech” , as you can see by my comment on the CrunchNotes post. [...]
[...] If you’re trying to replace one job (the one you have right now), or looking for a second job, then frequenting job boards and thinking about PayPerPost is a fine thing. You may want to take a hint about going about it the right way, even. These are ways for you to utilize your efforts to get a greater return on every unit of time you’re spending at your job. [...]
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[...] Additionally, does anyone think that the readership of 37signals, Techcrunch, Cameron Moll and GigaOm are really so different that they require their own job boards? Is there a single person who reads Authentic Boredom but does not read Signal vs. Noise or A List Apart? I’d be really surprised. Mike Arrington recently posted about how when he was launching CrunchBoard he tried to partner with Om Malik and 37signals. Apparently both turned him down, and I think that is the biggest reason these will all end up failing. If they had combined into some sort of tech A-list job board it would have been much harder for people to duplicate their formula. But with the setup they have now, if you have a free afternoon you can have a niche job board for your site. While it obviously does not make sense for someone like myself to offer a job board, what about someone like Khoi Vinh, Christopher Fahey, Vitamin (oh wait, they already do), or even 9rules or digg? Where does the law of diminishing returns kick in on something like this? I’m going to guess that the sustainable market for a system like this is one or two job boards per niche. We are already way past that in some fields, and the market is barely half a year old. It feels like the million dollar homepage all over again where there is one great, simple idea and a flood of people rushing to cash in before the jig is up. [...]
[...] mySpace Take a drink every time some technology writer (read: hack) lists the value of mySpace any dollar over what you can find in your seat cushions. {ok we made that one up} So now we add to this noble list with the Michael Arrington TechCrunch OpenHype Bar game. First you need to sneak a bottle of Wild Turkey into Ritual and top off your mocha with a hearty splash of 101. Launch your RSS client and start drinking. Take a drink when Michael calls something ‘killer’. Take a drink everytime TC reviews sites that offer almost the same features, yet fails to interject any analysis declaring one better than the rest. Take a drink every day Edgeio loses money Take a drink when a website using AJAX is referred to as ‘app’. (this could very well kill you, if you are not gifted in heavy drinking.) Take a big chug whenever you’re sure Mike is XMLing smoke up your ass. You can tell he’s just copy-and-pasting the PR email and adding the word ‘killer’ here and there for good measure. Good, hard pull everytime Mike gets testy with another blogger. TechCrunch starts yet another Crunch ’spinoff’, sorta like a blog version of Jodie Loves Chachi, finish the bottle. Whenever Mike promises to comp your blog writers some free tickets to his party then totally negs on you because ‘the list is getting a bit tight’ hit him with the empty bottle. Revenge is a dish best served cold, Mssr. Arrington. [...]
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[...] The world has changed since I wrote about the need for a decentralized job board service last August. Just not quite in the way I had hoped. [...]
[...] The world has changed since I wrote about the need for a decentralized job board service last August. Just not quite in the way I had hoped. [...]
[...] 私が去年の8月、オープンネットワーク的な求人掲示板が必要だと書いてから、かなりの変化が起きている。ただし私の期待する方向にではないのだが。求人掲示板はテクノロジー系ブログに付き物だ。われわれのところにも１つあるし、その他無数に生まれている。テクノロジー系ブログの求人掲示板のメリットは、最新の技術動向に通じている良質な人材が読んでいるはず、というものだ。そこに求人広告を出せば、必要な相手だけに見てもらうことができ、CraigslistやMonster.comのような一般的求人サイトに出した場合のように不適な相手からの履歴書が無数に舞い込むということにならずにすむ。われわれが求人掲示板を開設したときにはすぐに使える既製品がなかったため、自前で作った。プログラマーを雇って2千ドルでコーディングしてもらい、Paypalのアカウントを作って、すぐにスタートさせた。ちらほらバグもあったが、まず順調に運営されている。しかし今や求人掲示板のパッケージサービスは少なくとも２つあり、近々もう一つ増えるようだ。 Job ThreadはRead/Write Webの掲示板を含めて多数のブログの求職掲示板をサポートしている。Job Threadは広告掲載料の50%を取る。ブログ運営者は広告掲載料を自由に設定できる。今朝（1/24）、SimplyHiredはJob ThreadのライバルとなるJob-a-maticというサービスをローンチした。Job Threadと同様ブログ運営者は料金を自由に設定でき、SimplyHiredが50%を取る。Simply Hiredではまた運営者は求人広告以外の広告も掲載でき、この場合Simply Hiredは収入の30%を取る。どうやら多くの有力ブロガーがこのサービスを評価したようだ。Guy Kawasaki、Om Malik、Jeff Jarvis、O’Reilly、John Battelleなどがすでに顧客となると発表されている。(Omは自前で開発したシステムを捨てて加わった)。昨日、Edgeio (私は同社の株式の一部を所有している )も Marketplacesという同様のサービスを発表した。Edgeioのサービスでは、ユーザーは求人専門の掲示板を設置することも、Craigslistタイプの総合案内広告サイトを設置することもできる。このサービスでは運営者から徴収する手数料は他より安く、全広告料収入の20%だけだ。Simply HiredとEdgeioのアプローチが正しいと私は思う。この両社はサービスを提供する個々のブログの求人掲示場の情報を統合して自社の検索エンジンで検索できるようにしている。これは出稿者にとってはきわめて大きな価値がある。Job Thread はこのような情報の統合は行っていない。しかし、もっと高い価値を生む方法、私が8月のCrunch Noteで提案した方法は少し違っている。簡単に求人掲示板を設置できるツールは、自前で作るのに数千ドルも使いたくないブロガーにとって便利なものであることは確かだ。しかしこれはいたるところにニッチな掲示板が乱立するという、現在すでに存在する問題をさらに悪化させるだけだ。そうではなくて、私が実現させたいのは、テクノロジー系ブロガー全員が共有でき、誰でも参加できて、収入は実績に応じて按分比例で分配されるような単一の求人掲示板なのだ。TechCrunchやVentureBeatやGigaOmやGuy Kawasakiやその他のブログがそれぞれに独自の掲示板を持ち、データを孤立したサイロに入れて置かなければならない理由などない。今のところこのような統合はまだSimplyHiredやEdgeioのレベルどまりで、地球上のありとあらゆるわれわれにはあまり興味のない案内広告といっしょくたになっている。まだどのサービスもこの統合掲示板という計画を発表していない。私はEdgeioにこういったサービスを始めるよう働きかけている。、もしそれが実現するなら、私はCrunchBoardの自前のバックエンドシステムを捨て加わってもいいと考えている。SimplyHiredとJobThreadについても同様だ。単一の大きな求人検索エンジンのもとにミニネットワークを作ろうではないか。広告主、求職者、ブロガーすべての関係者の利益になるはずである。[原文へ] SimplyHired [...]
[...] The world has changed since I wrote about the need for a decentralized job board service last August. Just not quite in the way I had hoped. [...]
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