The relaunch of Jobster is a pretty big deal.

The Washington Post thinks so.

This article does a good job of describing the current state of Jobster and what we're doing. I also like it because it mentions Jobby... :)

I got to sit in on a few user tests yesterday. We sat behind a 1 way mirror and watched people interact with the site. Really learned a lot about how different people get different things from the experience, and what things are difficult or confusing.

Lots of stuff to do, still, but it helps that I love my job.

Here is a great article about Jobby and Jobster from the Anchorage Daily News. Tony and I posed for pictures for the print version.

Jobster announced the acquisition of Jobby on their blog tonight

These guys are great. Looking forward to getting to work with them.

We've just pushed up a new rev of Jobby, which includes the following cool features/adjustments:

New Job Types! We’ve added Tech Sales/Marketing Person and Sysadmin to our stable of job types. Please tell your friends!

A new account creation page (which is much cooler)

Smarter tag addition UI

Slightly revised add/edit qualifications interface

Slightly revised search interface to accomodate new job types

Anonymous capabilities to keep your name off of your profile page (if you feel paranoid)

URL capabilities on profile– you can now post the web address of your blog and/or personal site!

Check it out

Read my blog entry at the ONLamp Blog

"Several weeks ago there was a notable bit of controversy over some comments made by James Gosling, father of the Java programming language. He has since addressed the flame war that erupted, but the whole ordeal got me thinking seriously about PHP and its scalability and performance abilities compared to Java. I knew that several hugely popular Web 2.0 applications were written in scripting languages like PHP, so I contacted Owen Byrne - Senior Software Engineer at digg.com to learn how he addressed any problems they encountered during their meteoric growth. This article addresses the all-to-common false assumptions about the cost of scalability and performance in PHP applications."

Here's an organic article (meaning, we didn't contact these guys, they found it on Ajaxian) on TechCrunch, which is one of, if not the Web 2.0 news site.

"...the ability for recruiters to set, at virtually no time cost, highly specific filtered searches for exactly the candidate they are looking for means they will likely use it. And if recruiters start using it, expect job seekers to flow there as well.

Anyone building a new web company with search features should take a look and consider, cough, copying their interface. It’s really exceptional."

They seem to love it, too.

Ajaxian groks Jobby. They get it. Totally. What a great write-up. I'm so excited. That's exactly the message we're trying to get across.

From their post:
"The site combines a solid combination of interface and functionality to create an easy to use kind of user experience. As as hiring manager, you can search on a term and get the results. The real fun starts when you apply filters to the data dynamically. Your list is fine tuned down to a few candidates as you narrow the field in different categories like Location, Business, and Availability."

"They’re still in a beta stage, but if you’re looking to submit your information as a “Web Geek”, you’ve come to the right place."

Way better uptake than I let myself expect. These guys are the core of Web 2.0 UI and development right now, and they love our UI.

ACK! Jobby is getting hammered, I have to go keep an eye on it!