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My apologies, we've been a little late (lame?) getting a few of the interviews recorded at our Vertical Leap search engine conference up on the blog.
Here's another great podcast interview with David Hornik of August Capital (also sometime author of VentureBlog), again conducted by John Furrier of Podtech.net.
David talks about the birth of a startup, the perils of entrepreneurship, and the team-building process of that curious bunch of fools who think they can change the world.
Last week we launched 2 features which I am especially excited about.
Bettah Search. Over the past month, our engineers have been hard at work. They yanked the engine, pulled it apart and rebuilt it. And once they were done with the '67 Shelby, they did the same for our search. We took your detailed feedback, analyzed how you search for a job, and then proceeded to rebuild our search engine. While the Shelby never recovered from their tampering, our job search is better than before. At least we think so, but we need to hear from you.
Do You Know the Way to San Jose? Well you do now. Job Maps is a great way to compare job openings by location, calculate commutes, and check out the neighborhood.
Step 1: Map It!
By clicking on the Map It link, you add the job to your list of mapped jobs. Add a few jobs to your map, conduct a new search, and then add a few more.
Step 2: View Your List
We have finally made use of that nice blue bar that extends across the top of the pages. You will now see a "Mapped Jobs" list, which contains a summary of all the jobs you wish to see on a map. (YES! You can see multiple jobs on the same map!)
Step 3: View Your Map
Clicking on any of the "Mapped" links or the "View Map" button will take you to your very own custom Job Map. This map is powered by the Google Maps API, so you get all the bells and whistles, including their clever "Hybrid" maps.
Step 4: Add Your Home Address
You have the option of adding your home or any starting address to the map. We then add estimated distances from the home address for every job listed on your Maps page. Neat, huh?
Check it out, and enjoy. As always, compliments, comments and critiques are welcome.
Happy Sunday Afternoon. Before I dive into the going-ons here at SimplyHired, I wanted to talk about 2 events which occured this past weekend:
FooCamp '05: SimplyHired's Dave McClure and Peter Weck headed out to Sebastopol for FooCamp '05 [flickr | technorati] this year's FooCamp. How they got in, no one knows, but Peter did manage to meet some stars before security tackled him.
BarCamp '05: In addition to Daniel, Matt and yours truly, SimplyHired also sent some schwag and beer $$$ over to the brand, spankin' new BarCamp [flickr | technorati] as well.
We got to hand out T's, mingle with folks and learn about neat new things.
Generally a geeky weekend. How was yours?
sometimes we brag about neat-o whizbang stuff we've built.
now here's some cool stuff other folks are doing to remix our job listing RSS:
UPDATE: also found out the folks running Blog Business Summit are also running a blog about blogging jobs -- how many times do i use the word blog in this sentence? -- called BlogBusinessJobs.com which is mashing up not only our job RSS feeds, but others as well.
seen any other interesting things people are doing with Simply Hired RSS? tell us about it.
hey folks, sorry for the downtime this morning on simply forums / simply fired contest.
seems that during our recent upgrade we left some sand inside one of the servers. our sysadmin cleaned that up, and we now return you to your regularly scheduled firings.
note: please don't believe the rumors about our sysadmins tying one on last night & driving donuts in the parking lot, with our servers in the back of a red camaro wearing a couple of lampshades. nothing could be further from the truth. ahem.
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