It has been reported that Radio One has signed a deal with AllHipHop.com to sell advertising on their site for the next five years. The agreement provides Interactive One, Radio One’s digital division and exclusive agreement to sell all of AllHipHop’s ad inventory. Advertisers who already run ads on AllHipHop will have more access to the Radio One system and also their advertising opportunities. Currently AllHipHop has over five million monthly users in which will lead to a good return for Radio One who are trying to broaden their reach in the African-American hip hop audience. Last month it bought social network operator Community Connect and launched NewsOne.com, an African-American news site.
Duncan Riley has a new blog called the Inquisitr and they have just launched a new job board. With this new job board launching it made me sit back and think, why are all these Technology News companies launching crappy job board that are pretty much all from the same 2 or 3 companies? Do they really add anything to the user experience? and more importantly are they being used from a user stand point, while bringing in revenues for a publisher?
The companies in which seem to be used all the time are Simply Hired and Personforce. Except for Centernetworks which seems to be built upon a Drupal platform, so they have made the Jobs extension in house.
I just dont get all of these job boards and how companies think they can find the right person by posting on them. Why not just save the money and either place a job advert on Linkedin or even headhunt via Linkedin?
What do you think about the whole Job Board situation!
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Brightegg and their experienced designer community offer premier, sophisticated web designs that businesses use to build their website. Once launched, businesses can easily manage their entire website in-house, market themselves using a multitude of features and collect leads and client information through a dedicated database.
Crenk Thoughts: BrightEgg is great for users who want design their own sites in less than 30 minutes. Currently, users can receive a free 30 day trial with the service and then it is quite affordable, costing less than $20 per month. This service is really not for a tech savy user, but tailored to meet the needs of an existing company looking to try to make a small presence on the web.
Is the 3G iPhone just about to hit the Apple Store? The Apple online store has stopped selling iPhones completely, stating they are currently unavailable. Thus, everyone is mentioning that the next gen iPhone could be hitting the stores in the next few days.
Powerset launches their service with a Wikipedia Search tool. For a long time now Powerset has been ridiculously over hyped and has produced nothing, until now. As I mentioned the search engine is based around Wikipedia at present, but im sure will be moving into other sites in the near future. Powerset allows users to search via topic, phrase or question and it uses its own algorithm to work through key words and find the best matches. Powerset is first applying its natural language processing to search, aiming to improve the way we find information by unlocking the meaning encoded in ordinary human language.
For the last 6 months or more the word around the valley seems to be Semantic. Im simply just sick of hearing about semantic search and how it is going to change the search industry. It seems to be time now for some actual results, so can Powerset provide this?
Zenbe is a new email service that includes a calendar, task lists, an address book, even your Facebook friends, at a glance. Zenbe lets you send, search, organize, and share your email from Gmail, AOL, Yahoo! Mail, or any email address. Additionally, the service is currently ad free. Zenbe seems to be a service that is wanting to challenge the likes of Mozillas Thunderbird and Zimbra. Can the service live up to challenging those major players? Let us know.
SocialThing! is our inaugural partner for Crenked Out! Crenked Out! offers free invites to unique products for Crenk Readers. SocialThing is basically a lifestyle or content aggregator. With most people these days having 2 social network profiles, possible a blog or two, a twitter account, pounce account and more, it is hard to keep up with all this information. SocialThing is trying to provide the product that will bring all of these profiles together in a simple environment, which will allow the users to not only keep up-to-date on all their content but even make some connects that werent previously possible.
SocialThing! has been nice enough to offer 300 invites to Crenk readers. First come first served, so head here to signup.
Crenked Out! has just launched. Crenked Out! is our new service which will be providing our readers with invitations to preview and use some of the most exclusive applications on the web. These invitations are of course going to be free and you can use as many services as you would like. However, there will be of course a limit to the amount of invites we are able to give out, so make sure you get in fast. Each time we add a new service to Crenked Out! we will also write a review about the service and detail how many invitations we have available.
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GroovesharkLite is a self-contained flash based application which lets you search, listen and purchase mp3’s online. It has a library of over 6 Million songs covering everything from tiny Indies to all the Majors.
It’s a peer to peer music service in the same vein as Limewire, which also allows users to stream and purchase songs.
Users are not required to register or login to their account in order to search and play songs. You are only required to login to your account when you want to purchase a particular mp3. Otherwise you are free listen to songs as much as you want.
You can also get free mp3’s with GroovesharkLite, for example if someone purchases a song that you seed, you would receive a credit that can be used to purchase more songs from the network.
It has been reported that Grand Theft Auto IV sales have been much higher than expected. In the first week of sales there has been over 6 million copies sold which has reportedly raked in over $500 million in sales. That first week performance blows away the previous record held by “Halo 3″ which sold about 2.6 million units and earned $300 million. First day sales for “Grand Theft Auto IV,” including all pre-orders, totaled 3.6 million copies.
Even those guys at the Pirate Bay got on the Grand Theft Auto bandwagon and posted a nice logo and with some cheeky rips.
