Roundup: Social network Hi5 launches its developer platform, Facebook does regular old targeted advertising, and more
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Social network Hi5 publicly launches its developer platform — San Francisco-based Hi5 may be a big opportunity for developers of third-party applications that live on social networks. It is popular in places like Portugal, Thailand and select countries of Latin America. Overall, it’s one of the largest social networks worldwide, with more than 35 million monthly active users — and the company claims that only 25 percent of them also have profiles… Continue Reading
Jobster to serve Facebook exclusively — targets Craigslist
Jobster, the Seattle job search engine, armed with $50 million in financing and aiming to be profitable this year, announces two big moves tomorrow (Thursday).
First, it jettisons its comfy neutrality with other sites. Until now, it has remained a search engine, listing excerpts from job postings at Monster and CareerBuilder, and sending users to those sites to view the full postings. Going forward, Jobster will still do that. But it will also let employers post… Continue Reading
Yahoo partners with papers — but what does it leave the papers?
Yahoo announced a partnership with a consortium of more than 150 newspapers, in an effort to let the struggling newspaper industry find greater distribution for things like their job ads.
Yahoo struck the deal several major newspaper companies, each of which own scores of newspapers, including MediaNews (publisher of Silicon Valley’s Mercury News), Hearst (publisher of the SF Chronicle), and Cox Newspapers.
The Mercury News summary of the deal is here. Note that CareerBuilder, the site the… Continue Reading