News Corp. chairman looks to build new revenue paradigm

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Will matching technology transform recruitment? We think it will play a role, but a limited one. SmartMoney magazine identifies four sites as “top contenders” in the job-matching business. We’re familiar with three of their four and list one they missed; we’d stay as far away as possible from the fourth site SmartMoney mentioned. 

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San Antonio, Texas-based Clear Channel Radio plans national advertising sales strategy and sales force in the U.S. 

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Monster.com is now hiring. Heavily. Dozens of sales positions and three VP positions, including a VP of advertising sales job, are open and posted on its site. (Read more, and go to the key links, by clicking the headline above.)

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Publishers often need to add images to articles that appear on their Web sites. But that can be very time consuming. A new startup searches across 15 photo sharing sites and shortens the choose and insert process to two steps. And it’s free.

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In five years, according to research by Morgan Stanley, more people will access the Internet from mobile devices than from desktop computers. What does that mean for your business?

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There are lessons to be learned from the EBay / Craigslist battle, and they apply to lots of entrepreneurs and businesspeople. In a BusinessWeek.com column, Tom Taulli outlines five key points and comments on the “big-time dealmaking --- gone wrong and wild” about strategic agreements between companies.

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How 300 journalists at 100 top U.S. newspapers are using Twitter: Boston Herald tweets nearly 100 times a day; most journalists don’t carry on two-way tweet conversations. 

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From the “this ain’t news” file: Craigslist helps sell sex! And it took eight graduate students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and their professor, who has both a law degree and a Ph.D. in forensic psychology, to figure that one out.

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Jay Small, a tech-savvy leader in interactive media who’s worked at Central Newspapers, Belo and several other major newspaper / media companies, is leaving Scripps to join Cordillera Communications as president of interactive media.

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Simon Fuller at the helm of yet another highly-emulatable new interactive online TV idea; local publishers and broadcasters could make money while they help their local audience fulfill their dreams

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Interactive TV has been heralded for years as the next big advertising opportunity. Now with the rapid spread of social media, viewers are Twittering while they watch the tube. Is this the Holy Grail of interactive TV...or a looming nightmare for advertisers in a real time world?

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Tweets for business begin, CoTweet could be Twitter competitor or collaborator

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Real estate agents are not all alike, real estate verticals are not all timely

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The disclosures in the EBay vs. Craigslist trial, especially the “outing” of $16 million in payments to Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster of Craigslist, are ugly. Neither EBay nor Craigslist looks good in all of this --- and the “aw shucks we’re not a business” boys Buckmaster and Newmark look particularly disingenuous.

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Carol Bartz makes it official: Yahoo HotJobs is “not strategic,” so it’s up for sale. But who would the potential buyers be? And what would happen with the Newspaper Consortium members working with HotJobs? What’s with the $65 million in Yahoo display sales by newspapers in 2009? And what about Monster Worldwide? Could it, too, be an acquisition or merger candidate? We explore these issues and more in this clients-only post.

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AoL. and Time Warner CEOs speak at UBS Global Media and Communications Conference, about their company’s past and futures. New AoL. face launches today; Time Warner considering purchase of MGM. 

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Books and newspapers are quickly going electronic. But how about the creation of content? Will tomorrow’s books be crowdsourced, turning writers of the future into a combination of cheerleader, social media expert and craftsman?

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Ontario judge rules against a broker who downloaded and republished MLS data online in 2007, maintaining (at least for now) the real estate board’s stranglehold on listings.

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Coverage of this week’s Los Angeles Auto Show via Cars.com, Edmunds.com, and KBB.com; Patrick Dempsey was there as celebrity Mazda racer. 

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