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”.
Update: Mini Om weighs in.
If you want to expand your network for job-sourcing, why not franchise it? Do like “Craig’s list” for jobs – allow those of us that have an interest to use your current work to build our own local job-sourcing sites without having to start from scratch?
Sure, I could throw together a RoR job sourcing site, but it wouldn’t be as powerful as a network of job sourcing sites. So don;t look for other big players – find small ones – makes the server viral, and not just the service.
Rob
If only you could call Nick Carr an asshole via the press.