Hi Guys, I thought this would be really interesting to people who blog who might be able to help us. This year we built a product called Snaptalent, emanating from Paul Graham's Y Combinator, which allows bloggers to monetize using tasteful and relevant job advertising.
When we found out Joel Spolsky makes over $200k a year from Job Advertising, we decided to do something about helping publishers who write great content, who don't make a lot of money to make money from relevant job ads as opposed to some of the irrelevance shown by adsense. We also decided that in addition making the jobs ads solely text based that we would allow for tasteful widget formats with images (to show off cool offices), video (to show off the people). Also we decided to make pretty widgets, which when clicked upon, showed a full page job ad in a lightbox thus not taking users away from the page. Also for a lot of audiences job ads would be more relevant and that great job ads are also great content (like the job ads in the economist). Things have gone really well and since March, this year we've worked with a test group of about 45 sites and 30 or so companies to really get this right. Now we're ready to add a 100 more sites for the next phase to improve what we've done, so we need your help to get us there! You can see our widgets some high profile sites like Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs Steve Yegge: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com Raganwald: http://weblog.raganwald.com and we've attracted some great initial reviews: http://paulstamatiou.com/2008/03/15/snaptalent-compelling-job-ads http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/tasteful-monetization-and-the-passionate-developer-community/ We're keen to continue growing the network again and are planning to restrict this to another 100 blogs for the next phase. I would love to extend out an invitation to folk who * Write good quality content * Update regularly and have some traffic If you'd like to participate the URL to get a widget here: http://snaptalent.com/widgets/new Now the rates may not be as high as they will be in the future, and there may be stuff we need to fix, but together with your feedback we can iterate on what we've done & make something thats really valuable for the programming community. Please feel free to forward this to someone who you know may benefit or if you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me. Thanks in advance for your help! Sumon Co-founder Snaptalent [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
