Comments on: Jobster Gets a Facebook Lift http://gigaom.com/2007/02/07/jobster-redo/ Tracking the Internet Evolution Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:29:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: » Microsoft Investment In Facebook Giving Hope To Jobster || Pulse 2.0: Web 2.0 Reviews & Profiles || » Blog Archive http://gigaom.com/2007/02/07/jobster-redo/#comment-631989 » Microsoft Investment In Facebook Giving Hope To Jobster || Pulse 2.0: Web 2.0 Reviews & Profiles || » Blog Archive Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:19:35 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/jobster-redo/#comment-631989 <p>[...] in February 2007, Jobster announced that they will have an official deal with Facebook [Source: GigaOM].  Since the partnership between Jobster and Facebook happened 5 months ago, I have not heard of [...]</p> [...] in February 2007, Jobster announced that they will have an official deal with Facebook [Source: GigaOM].  Since the partnership between Jobster and Facebook happened 5 months ago, I have not heard of [...]

]]> By: JibberJobber Blog » Blog Archive » Forget Digital Dirt - Think Digital Anything! http://gigaom.com/2007/02/07/jobster-redo/#comment-87600 JibberJobber Blog » Blog Archive » Forget Digital Dirt - Think Digital Anything! Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:21:55 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/jobster-redo/#comment-87600 <p>[...] a Jobster account, and flesh it out. Search engines also love Jobster, and profiles usually score on the first page of [...]</p> [...] a Jobster account, and flesh it out. Search engines also love Jobster, and profiles usually score on the first page of [...]

]]> By: John http://gigaom.com/2007/02/07/jobster-redo/#comment-87598 John Sat, 03 Mar 2007 21:54:37 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/jobster-redo/#comment-87598 <p>Folks, you need to take a reality check on this supposed Jobster/Facebook "partnership." Please, let's turn up the BS detector. The lack of basic legwork calls into question what Gigaom is trying to do as a news source.</p> <p>Who is calling it a partnership? Jobster. To my knowledge, Facebook has issued no press release on this supposed "partnership" (http://www.facebook.com/press.php). Facebook seems to be very happy doing what they're doing, thank you. Jobster is just a flea on a big dog.</p> <p>Here's all it is:</p> <p>Facebook has an API that anyone can use FOR FREE. Once you've written your app, it appears on their list (http://developers.facebook.com/products.php?&desktop=&sort=2). It doesn't even look to me as though Facebook polices the apps very much; I would hope they know a lot about Jobster, but who knows? You can also define yourself as a Facebook group. It's not like you're a module in Facebook; you're just another service plugged into it. To get a feel for which of these plugins interest Facebook, the one they are calling their "Featured Product" is MoochSpot, which is for tracking expenses.</p> <p>There's really nothing there. Good luck to Jobster. Maybe someday they'll be the featured product.</p> Folks, you need to take a reality check on this supposed Jobster/Facebook “partnership.” Please, let’s turn up the BS detector. The lack of basic legwork calls into question what Gigaom is trying to do as a news source.

Who is calling it a partnership? Jobster. To my knowledge, Facebook has issued no press release on this supposed “partnership” (http://www.facebook.com/press.php). Facebook seems to be very happy doing what they’re doing, thank you. Jobster is just a flea on a big dog.

Here’s all it is:

Facebook has an API that anyone can use FOR FREE. Once you’ve written your app, it appears on their list (http://developers.facebook.com/products.php?&desktop=&sort=2). It doesn’t even look to me as though Facebook polices the apps very much; I would hope they know a lot about Jobster, but who knows? You can also define yourself as a Facebook group. It’s not like you’re a module in Facebook; you’re just another service plugged into it. To get a feel for which of these plugins interest Facebook, the one they are calling their “Featured Product” is MoochSpot, which is for tracking expenses.

There’s really nothing there. Good luck to Jobster. Maybe someday they’ll be the featured product.

]]> By: NV http://gigaom.com/2007/02/07/jobster-redo/#comment-87596 NV Mon, 12 Feb 2007 06:28:50 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/jobster-redo/#comment-87596 <p>Your post brings up many interesting questions about the direction Facebook is taking and how this will affect undergraduates currently utilizing the service. As “Jobster is adding a ’share on Facebook’ button on Thursday that will pull in aspects of the Jobster profile onto your Facebook page,” profiles on the site will now transform from a personal to a professional networking service. I wonder if this will create as much of an outcry from enraged Facebook users as the new “News Feed” option did, which gave the site much less of a private feel. In a way, linking Facebook to job searching takes the fun out of Facebook, which was originally created as a way to let college students network and share with their friends. College students have already been warned about having to try and hide their profiles from potential and current employers by raising privacy settings and taking off content that would seem inappropriate to such parties. Are they taking the fun out of Facebook, or was Facebook only a business venture in the first place? - http://nvblog-business.blogspot.com/</p> Your post brings up many interesting questions about the direction Facebook is taking and how this will affect undergraduates currently utilizing the service. As “Jobster is adding a ’share on Facebook’ button on Thursday that will pull in aspects of the Jobster profile onto your Facebook page,” profiles on the site will now transform from a personal to a professional networking service. I wonder if this will create as much of an outcry from enraged Facebook users as the new “News Feed” option did, which gave the site much less of a private feel. In a way, linking Facebook to job searching takes the fun out of Facebook, which was originally created as a way to let college students network and share with their friends. College students have already been warned about having to try and hide their profiles from potential and current employers by raising privacy settings and taking off content that would seem inappropriate to such parties. Are they taking the fun out of Facebook, or was Facebook only a business venture in the first place?
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]]> By: Brad's Rag http://gigaom.com/2007/02/07/jobster-redo/#comment-87584 Brad's Rag Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:16:16 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/jobster-redo/#comment-87584 <p><strong>Jobster: Still Skeptical…</strong></p> <p>I’ll admit, if you have read my previous comments on Jobster, such as on Techcrunch comments, I regularly bash Jobster on its business model. I have a strong interest in the online career search for one reason: because I know just like everybody else…</p> Jobster: Still Skeptical…

I’ll admit, if you have read my previous comments on Jobster, such as on Techcrunch comments, I regularly bash Jobster on its business model. I have a strong interest in the online career search for one reason: because I know just like everybody else…

]]> By: Brad White http://gigaom.com/2007/02/07/jobster-redo/#comment-87588 Brad White Thu, 08 Feb 2007 22:52:38 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/jobster-redo/#comment-87588 <p>I still contend that no past or present employee will post honest information about their employer, unless they truly are a happy-go-lucky individual who just loves everything. To get a honest perspective on what a company and its culture are really like, people need the ability to have some anonymity to protect their own interests. Everybody has qualms about their company, even if they really like working there. Those things will never come out in a social networking atmosphere, because employees want to protect how their employer perceives them.</p> <p>Nonetheless, the conference call this morning still impressed me. It needs more traction in the market before I’m on board though. Their current numbers aren’t incredibly impressive, despite how colorful Jason Goldberg makes it out to be.</p> I still contend that no past or present employee will post honest information about their employer, unless they truly are a happy-go-lucky individual who just loves everything. To get a honest perspective on what a company and its culture are really like, people need the ability to have some anonymity to protect their own interests. Everybody has qualms about their company, even if they really like working there. Those things will never come out in a social networking atmosphere, because employees want to protect how their employer perceives them.

Nonetheless, the conference call this morning still impressed me. It needs more traction in the market before I’m on board though. Their current numbers aren’t incredibly impressive, despite how colorful Jason Goldberg makes it out to be.

]]> By: Sandeep Sahai http://gigaom.com/2007/02/07/jobster-redo/#comment-87586 Sandeep Sahai Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:35:08 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/jobster-redo/#comment-87586 <p>Did anyone got any job through this website?</p> Did anyone got any job through this website?

]]> By: dave http://gigaom.com/2007/02/07/jobster-redo/#comment-87590 dave Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:28:40 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/jobster-redo/#comment-87590 <p>well, i think they've got some reasonably solid leadership…personally, if it were me, i'd skip the take-on-craigs/monster route and instead focus on core and active users of existing services…specifically, jobster fills a huge hole/gap for salesforce.com, they should be talking…no need to bother with the elgoog's of the world because they'll build their own or reach these channels through partners (myspace jobs et al)…but salesforce, now there's an opportunity to perhaps keep charging real money for real services and socialize the salesforce user base…just a thought.</p> well, i think they’ve got some reasonably solid leadership…personally, if it were me, i’d skip the take-on-craigs/monster route and instead focus on core and active users of existing services…specifically, jobster fills a huge hole/gap for salesforce.com, they should be talking…no need to bother with the elgoog’s of the world because they’ll build their own or reach these channels through partners (myspace jobs et al)…but salesforce, now there’s an opportunity to perhaps keep charging real money for real services and socialize the salesforce user base…just a thought.

]]> By: John Innit http://gigaom.com/2007/02/07/jobster-redo/#comment-87592 John Innit Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:23:44 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/jobster-redo/#comment-87592 <p>these guys get around 70% of their job content from scraping the companies they are NOW trying to compete directly with:</p> <p>http://www.jobster.com/find/US/jobs/for/linux</p> <p>Is that smart? how long until the job boards start blocking them? (what will they provide facebook with then?)</p> <p>Their whole strategy is a bit messed up innit? ;)</p> these guys get around 70% of their job content from scraping the companies they are NOW trying to compete directly with:

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Is that smart? how long until the job boards start blocking them? (what will they provide facebook with then?)

Their whole strategy is a bit messed up innit? ;)

]]> By: Rahul http://gigaom.com/2007/02/07/jobster-redo/#comment-87594 Rahul Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:43:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/jobster-redo/#comment-87594 <p>Ugh - sounds like a tough slog to make the upgrade model work. This whole space needs more innovative business models. How about providing better matching tools, and charging more, not less. eHarmony for jobs. The free model makes the whole thing a volume game and doesn't serve either the recruiter or job seeker with useful prioritization rules.</p> Ugh - sounds like a tough slog to make the upgrade model work. This whole space needs more innovative business models. How about providing better matching tools, and charging more, not less. eHarmony for jobs. The free model makes the whole thing a volume game and doesn’t serve either the recruiter or job seeker with useful prioritization rules.

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