The news is rolling in - witness the items on Toptal and Freelance.ca acquisitions. So I'm putting in an extra news edition to handle it! Be sure to check out the final item on Jobright with an interesting application of…
By now you may have run into Google's AI overviews - summaries of text thrown up in answer to your query. Google rolled these overviews out to a certain number of search queries, although they haven't reveal which types of queries…
Huzzle raises funds - you heard right. Don't know what's up with the name, but sometimes this industry gets weird. It also turns out that LinkedIn continues to find new ways to squeeze more money out of their platform -…
AI and verification: the new job board peanut butter and jelly? OK, I'm stretching things a little (maybe a lot). But the reality is that when AI can mimic humans so well that deep fakes are often effective at fooling…
Zip, DHI, Recruiter, and Freelancer down? Is this news roundup going to be a total bummer? Not exactly. As you'll see, others like CrowdWorks, Upwork, Fiverr, and HelloWork are doing just fine. A tale of two job board industries? Perhaps.…
Google backs off? I guess I wasn't as surprised as some folks - but perhaps I'm just too cynical! Still, the apparent retreat of the Google job ads offering was only one bit of a lot of news in the…
Job board AI implementations are picking up - as I thought they might. I last wrote about this in July, and since then I've seen a steady wave of AI-related announcements. Some of this is just 'getting on the bandwagon',…
X is hurting - ok, that's not really news. But the fact that LinkedIn is benefiting? Well, that is! I think it's one sign of instability in the ad market - and of course we know that on top of…
Why ask 5 burning questions for 2024? Better yet, why not? Back when I managed a publishing company, I learned something very important. The fastest way to shut down a conversation is to label a question - any question -…
What a surprise - Upwork revenue up, Fiverr revenue up, and Indeed and Glassdoor revenue down. Notice anything there, such as freelancer sites seem to be doing better than their traditional job counterparts? Of course there are other ups and…