Finally. Technology provider Adicio has stitched together 500-plus recruitment sites that it powers into a publicly available database, debuting today, called CareerCast.com. That’s about a half-million jobs today from some of the best niche job boards and newspapers across the U.S. and Canada. 

Hearst Newspapers will show off its strategy for reinventing classifieds within the next few weeks. Here are details.

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According to research from TNS, online news sites have surpassed both newspapers and television as the U.K.’s primary trusted source of information. Even Wikipedia beat the press.

2009 is shaping up to be the year of content, custom media and social media initiatives online. This according to a new study which found that more than half of marketing and publishing decision makers plan to increase their content marketing spending.

According to a study by Groupe Xerfi, online new car sales in France grew 25 percent in 2007 and 31 percent in 2008.

New York’s Cablevision and Newsday are pooling listings to create a new cross platform automotive classified service. The service is powered by Adicio.

HomeSaleDirectory.com is partnering with RealtyTrac.com to allow home seekers to search for foreclosures on the HomeSaleDirectory Web site.

JobPlant.co.uk, a new recruitment site in the U.K. that focuses on allowing job seekers to post their own personal videos, went live at the beginning of the month.

Following a trend that is increasing in speed, The Boston Globe is the latest newspaper to cut some of the days it prints its stand-alone classified section.

The Chicago Sun-Times News Group—which includes the flagship Sun-Times and 70 Chicago suburban newspapers—joined Monster’s newspaper network on Monday, jumping off of CareerSite and out of ChicagoJobs.com. The move makes ChicagoJobs.com—run by Shaker Recruitment & Advertising Communications—almost an Internet pure-play.

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Publishers should embrace behavioral targeting, and extract the proper value. They shouldn’t shun it. 

Canwest shares have more than doubled in a few weeks—thanks to a successful interview, or speculation of foreign investment?

The Cincinnati Enquirer is cutting the number of days it runs classified ads. Mondays and Tuesdays will be eliminated.

Power.com, a small social media start-up company based in Brazil, has ruffled the feathers of Facebook which is suing the company for copyright and trademark infringement, among other complaints.

A new Italian auction and marketplace Web site has launched. AZannunci has a minimalist Craigslist look and feel but has its sights set on EBay. 

Prescott Newspaper’s The (Arizona) Daily Courier has joined Monster to list job opportunities in the Yavapai County area. 

Craigsphone lets you find classifieds, see your history, post and call directly from the phone.

Enthusiast auto classifieds site Mautofied.com reached a sales milestone when the 10,000th custom auto changed hands in 2008, representing a 58 percent sales growth over 2007.

Here’s a change we expect to see a lot more often, For the second time in a few days, a newspaper has announced that it’s reducing the number of days it carries classified ads.

If job-seekers are getting spam through recruitment sites, that poses a lot of problems --- both for the job-seekers and the recruitment sites.

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