A partnership with Workopolis will put Hotjobs on the sidelines in Canada while giving Yahoo listings from the dominant job board in the Great White North.

Job boards stand to gain tremendously over the next several years, and the competition between two of the top sites, Monster and CareerBuilder, will increase along with those markets.

Budgets for online advertising get a major lift in 2006.

The company’s deal with seven newspaper groups will give Yahoo a possible extension beyond job classifieds to working with publishers on contextual ads, local search, and other revenue generating possibilities.

John Markoff writes in the NY Times that Web 3.0 is coming.

So, you are going to PubCon next week, right?

The Windows Live Expo team added several features to the site in recent weeks, including job listings from CareerBuilder.com.

IT industry analysts Gartner published their 2006 hype cycle for emerging technologies this week – their predictions on what they think will be hot technologies in the near future, and what won’t be.

Gannett, Tribune, and McClatchy have reworked their ownership percentages of online classifieds site CareerBuilder, the Topix.net news aggregator, and the ShopLocal.com search engine.

Day two of ad:tech Chicago rounded up with a sigh. With all the parties Monday night, I think some of the attendees were looking forward to the end of the day.

A total of $18 million traveled into job search website Jobster, with half of the cash coming from Reed Elsevier, the publisher that owns LexisNexis and Hollywood trade paper Variety.

A few recent articles on social search got me thinking about how much search has changed and continues to change.

Windows Live Expo, Microsoft’s answer to Craigslist and Google Base, will be launched in China and five other countries before the end of 2006.

The Gilbane Content Management Conference – The enterprise blogging panel was all about internal blogging – with two great speakers:

Social software brings groups together to discover and create value. The problem is, users only have so much time for social software.

Fox Interactive Media has invested $3.5 million in job search site SimplyHired.com and will display its job listings in the MySpace classifieds section.

Collective intelligence will be a key competitive advantage in the 21st Century. Never before has there been a better medium to tap the collective intelligence than the Web.

Business intelligence is the process of gathering information from the business. The gathered business information is transformed into knowledge using business intelligence.

Newspaper veterans attending a talk by Oodle.com CEO Craig Donato at a Las Vegas conference learned they’d best get onboard with online advertising ASAP.

A new subscription service for marketers allows subscribers to keep an ear to the blogosphere and other social media realms with automatic keyword updates. Similar to Google News Alerts, PubSub struck a deal with business intelligence company Cymfony to deliver the latest buzz.

Traditionally, the retail industry has lagged behind other industries in adopting new technologies, and this holds true in its acceptance of BI technology.