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LEAP: The Lightweight Employment Access Protocol

www.leaprss.org

"(LEAP) is an extension of RSS 2.0 that adds job meta-data to RSS to create a lightweight, bandwidth efficient and standards based method for bulk job syndication. This website is the home of the working draft of LEAP version 1.0."

...from the founders of workzoo.com

Not shopping-related per se, but an interesting development. First, everyone and their grandma is starting a vertical search engine. Now, everyone and their great-uncle is proposing some kind of microformat.

Will these microformats entice new entrants into vertical search?

Or will microformats only serve to strengthen the current players?

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May 14, 2005 @ 3PM EST - I searched for "Lightweight Employment Access Protocol" at Google, Yahoo and MSN:

Google: No soup for you! 0 results
Yahoo: No soup for you! 0 results
MSN: Yesss! 1 result, leaprss.org

I (heart) fresh search results...

LEAP: The Lightweight Employment Access Protocol
Posted by Sean O'Rourke on May 14, 2005 at 12:24 PM
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Interview with Co-Founder of WorkZoo at FyberSearch

I must confess, I like to understand how a site works before posting, so as not to waste your time with sites that are not uniquely useful. Such is the case with the bumper crop of job search engines. Are they really great, or are they blowing smoke? In many cases, I have absolutely no idea. Yet. So I was excited to see a ten-question interview with Mark Maunder, CoFounder of job search engine WorkZoo.

Nice, nitty-gritty stuff, all the way down to their server specs. How can I not be curious about a site with a cool animated .gif (more info) and a non-corporate corporate weblog. If I can make enough progress on the ol' To Do list, I'd like to run an in-depth test of the job search engines. Although, if I'm lucky, another search blogger will do the in-depth testing and I can just link to them. :-)

Interview with Co-Founder of WorkZoo at FyberSearch
Posted by Sean O'Rourke on March 24, 2005 at 8:06 AM
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LinkedIn Jobs

Charlene Li reports that LinkedIn introduced LinkedIn Jobs on Sunday.

"While small, LinkedIn's approach takes recruiting beyond today's current model of "list and hope" – both recruiters and candidates can "work the network" to get better information, leads, and matches throughout the process."

source: LinkIn gets a revenue stream through job listings

LinkedIn Jobs
Posted by Sean O'Rourke on January 19, 2005 at 12:51 PM
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Feedster adds Jobs Search Engine

"From its current sources, Feedster adds over 5,000 job postings to its index daily. This number will increase exponentially as several more significant resources add their feeds to the Feedster index and as RSS feeds become an important publishing media for timely and relevant information."

PR Web: Feedster Provides Online Resource for Job Seekers

via SEW Blog

Feedster adds Jobs Search Engine
Posted by Sean O'Rourke on January 19, 2005 at 12:43 PM
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