Thirty7 Signals has entered the Job Market. Interesting low-tech approach... We will be promoting the job board in various ways over the next few months including a permanent position in the [SvN] sidebar which is seen by tens of thousands of people every day. Ah, so it's Advertis Ing....

Aug4: [Tech Crunch] is doing the same thing.

I guess this is one way of filtering candidates... I'm not sure how a great a predictor of quality it is, esp for a general-tech site like [Tech Crunch].

It also assumes you need a filter like that - for a StartUp looking for a great PyThon developer, you generally don't have this problem! (We recently had our best success paying for the right to query the big job-site dbs.) I'm chewing over the idea of buying AdWords next time, just on blogs (GooGle's "content network").

• Fred Wilson writes about Indeed Com's business of serving ads to job-seekers. (Wow the site is slow.)

Aug26: Mike Arrington ([Tech Crunch]) wants everyone to have an open API so that the little markets can integrate.

• But now that I think about it, the real point of these mini-MarKet-s is to mutually set expectations in terms of CultUre. Certainly Thirty7 Signals has its own Human Voice, and if you post a job you're implicitly saying you accept/prefer people with a similar style.

• If that's "true", then Arrington's approach only makes sense to the extent that [Tech Crunch] readers are "like" Thirty7 Signals readers, etc.

• Jason Fried makes a similar argument. If you want to reach executives interested in broadband, wireless, and technology, you post on the [GigaOm] Jobs board. If you want to reach someone interested in new company/product launches and the other stuff that is posted on [Tech Crunch], you post on the [Crunch Board]. Yes, there's some overlap between those audiences. But there are also significant differences.

• On the other hand, each of these mini-MarKet-s is too small for either party to depend on, so having an API that let's you deal with a number of these at one time makes sense. As long as you don't have to deal with all of them together.

Sept7: Joel Spolsky starts another one. And runs into an interesting issue.

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