Jobster To Acquire (two month old) Jobby

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1. Tony Wright
   

   May 23rd, 2006 at 10:57 pm

   We’re jazzed to be joining the Jobster team. Brian and I had two days of nonstop meetings with these guys and I can truly say that there are amazing things being done there.

   See you in Seattle!

2. Frightful Bish
   

   May 23rd, 2006 at 11:23 pm

   Oh dear. I hope this is a non-UK service.

   “Jobby” has a very different meaning over here, as evidenced by http://www.urbandictionary.com.....term=Jobby

   Watch out for these globalisation issues in future, boys and girls!

3. Tony Wright
   

   May 23rd, 2006 at 11:39 pm

   Yes, it’s one of the fine side effects of getting acquired. I imagine the name will be deprecated.

   Google means “old dog” in Chinese, so we’re not the only ones who fell victim to cultural ignorance.

4. Startups.in
   

   May 23rd, 2006 at 11:46 pm

   That really gives it a different meaning altogether
   BTW, here’s another one that is unintelligent - Yokel.com

   http://www.google.com/search?q.....S:official

   NagB /at/
   Startups.in

5. Michael Arrington
   

   May 24th, 2006 at 3:36 am

   I had forgotten about all the “what Jobby means in Scotland” thing. Funny. There were a lot of comments about it on the original post. http://www.techcrunch.com/2006.....#comments.

6. Geof Harries
   

   May 24th, 2006 at 7:09 am

   Any company that can take down an old school, bloated behemoth like Workopolis will garner much respect.

   It’s very unfortunate that none of these next-generation job search services are available or have much of an impact in Canada at the moment. We’re sorely lacking in a solid, user-friendly app like the U.S. folks can use.

7. Paul Montgomery
   

   May 24th, 2006 at 7:34 am

   Good jobby. Perhaps the merged entity can be called JobJobby?

8. Don Wilson
   

   May 24th, 2006 at 8:38 am

   Two months? My god.

   I can almost feel the bubble bursting all over again.

9. Lewis Zimmerman
   

   May 24th, 2006 at 9:17 am

   Like Geof I also really like the idea of sites like Jobby taking on sites like Workopolis and Monster, but not just because its old and bloated (which I too respect), but because the fundamental difference in their objectives (Jobby putting search in the hands of recruiters, versus Workopolis putting search in the hands of applicants and job-seekers) stands to make a fundamental difference in the way the recruiting market works. And though I wont deny that they’re both very important in the space, having recruiters search for what they want can really make things a lot more efficient.

10. Arnold
    

    May 24th, 2006 at 10:35 am

    I was speaking to VC a few days ago about whether the bubble is coming back again with the acquisition of all these web 2.0 companies which are too young to be profitable.

    The thing is, the acquirers do not see the companies they buy as profitable on their own; but will create synergy by enlarging the mother company’s user base.

11. Jeff Clavier
    

    May 24th, 2006 at 1:03 pm

    Great for Jobby to join a larger company with real resources (and apologies for not following up on your note Tony :-).

    Jobby was complementary to Jobster, so it is a move that makes sense. Nothing bubble-esque in there at all, quite the contrary actually.

    Look forward to seeing you at or around Gnomedex.

12. Lars
    

    May 25th, 2006 at 2:59 pm

    In Europe a Danish company has started a similar service in Denmark (jobindex.dk), successfully spread it under the “jobsafari” label to Sweden (jobsafari.se), Norway (jobsafari.no), and Finland (jobsafari.fi) with Stockholm-quoted Eniro - as well as in the Netherlands (jobsafari.nl) - They are now trying in France, Spain, Germany, Austria, the UK and Switzerland.
    (jobsafari.fr, jobsafari.es, etc.)

    http://www.jobsafari.co.uk/about.shtml

13. Dorian Hawkmoon
    

    May 26th, 2006 at 11:58 am

    I’m Scottish. Guess why I’m here

    Gave me the best laugh of the weekend