And now for some good news: A site about people getting hired
Our friends over at ReadWriteWeb are staying positive during the economic downturn — they’ve launched a mini-site to focus on jobs that people are getting, not losing. They’re calling it the Jobwire, and they’d been working on it months before the stock market started getting nailed.
This isn’t just a nice idea. Tracking hires can be a good way to figure out which companies are doing well. A prominent engineer going to a little-known startup, for example, can indicate promising stealth technology.
The site will have ten to twenty short posts per day, including a longer “Hire of the Day” that will include more context. RWW talks about it in more detail, here.
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Eric currently covers digital media technology and business news, especially what's happening on social networks and their platforms. He also writes and edits stories about venture capital, and lots of other stuff, too. He started at VentureBeat in the spring of 2007, half a year or so after Matt Marshall left his reporting job at the San Jose Mercury News to found the site. Eric previously cofounded a startup called Writewith, that was building editorial software for newspapers and other groups of writers. The startup didn't work out, but he learned a lot.
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