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Tuesday, January 12, 1999 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs TMP Launches Monster.com, Online Career Network TMP Worldwide has announced that the company has merged its top-rated online recruitment properties, The Monster Board and Online Career Center, creating Monster.com, a global online network for careers. The merger of the sites reflects TMP's ongoing strategy to dominate the online careers marketspace. The new Monster.com blends the best features and services of The Monster Board and Online Career Center sites. In addition, the new Monster.com features new services for career-minded individuals to better manage their careers and for recruiters to find qualified employees. For job seekers, Monster.com now offers personalization, enhanced resume-building and privacy options and career content, and for recruiters provides real-time recruiting and resume screening capabilities. Today, Monster.com offers 145,000 unique job opportunities from thousands of companies, a resume database containing more than 1 million unique resumes, and attracts millions of visitors per month. The Monster.com network spans the globe with local content and language sites in Canada, the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Australia, and has imminent launch plans in France, Germany and Belgium. "The careers area is proving to be the new `killer' category on the Web," said Jeff Taylor, CEO of Monster.com and founder of The Monster Board. "With today's launch of Monster.com, we continue to lead the careers space by providing innovative tools and services that are changing the way people manage careers." According to Forrester Reseach, Inc., employment is emerging as the leading and fastest-growing category in the online classifieds marketspace -- ahead of the much-lauded categories of automobiles and real estate. Forrester predicts spending on online recruitment advertising will grow from $105 million in 1998 to $1.7 billion by 2003. By then, the company expects 100 percent of large, 60 percent of medium-sized, and 20 percent of small companies will be running recruitment advertising online, adding fuel to online advertising revenues. CNN.com Launches Food Central CNN.com has launched Food Centeral, the newest addition to its heavily trafficked feature sections. Located at CNN.com/Food, Food Central offers the latest food and nutrition news together with recipes, restaurant reviews and other useful resources for food-lovers around the world. It also hosts 75 message boards, allowing Internet users to swap recipes and tips, as well as review their favorite restaurants. Digital Chef, an nline gourmet food and kitchenware retailer and online cooking authority, provides Food Central daily recipe specials and step-by-step cooking guides. "CNN.com's Food Central allows users to keep up-to-speed on all the latest issues affecting food and diet and at the same time form online communities to share restaurant and cooking experiences," said Scott Woelfel, editor in chief and vice president, CNN Interactive. "This is yet another example of how CNN can be the one online source for all kinds of news and information." "Digital Chef works closely with The Culinary Institute of America, assuring that users are getting the most authoritative cooking information on the Internet when they access Digital Chef recipes and cooking tips in CNN's Food Central," said Kevin Appelbaum, president and CEO, Digital Chef. "We are delighted to be the featured provider of daily recipes and cooking tips on CNN's new food section and look forward to showing CNN.com's millions of users that they can easily shop for gourmet foods, kitchenware and other cooking related merchandise on Digital Chef." JAMTV, Down Beat to Develop Jazz Website JAMTV Corp. and Down Beat, a magazine for jazz, blues and other forms of roots and improvised music, have announced a joint venture to create Down Beat Jazz, a premier online destination for the jazz community. Down Beat Jazz will join the Rolling Stone Network, TheSource.com and Tunes.com as part of JAMTV's music hub strategy. "Down Beat's pages have served as an oasis for the world's jazz community for 65 years," said Howard A. Tullman, chief executive officer of JAMTV. "The combination of the magazine's rich archives and our experience at creating dynamic, interactive music websites ensures that Down Beat Jazz will quickly become the online home for jazz lovers and musicians." Under the terms of the exclusive, multi-year agreement, JAMTV will create, host and maintain Down Beat Jazz. Down Beat will provide original music news and columns, as well as archives of artist bios and photos, feature articles and record reviews from the magazine. Down Beat Jazz will feature daily music news, background information on artists, concert/tour updates, and the opportunity to buy CDs, merchandise and concert tickets. The website will also give jazz fans and musicians the ability to directly interact with each other via chat rooms and message boards. "JAMTV is the ideal media company to help us create the best place for jazz on the Internet," said Kevin Maher, Down Beat's publisher. "Their expertise in integrating an editorial brand with the power of the Web ensures that Down Beat Jazz won't be just an online version of the magazine. This year, as we celebrate our sixty-fifth anniversary as the pre-eminent jazz publication, we are making the next step in our editorial evolution by creating an interactive environment that brings musicians and jazz fans together -- a place that becomes the online voice of the jazz community." Dateable.Com Launches Dateable.Com, a relationship resource and directory, has announced the launch of its website. The site provides romance/relationship-oriented resources and services are offered, including advice columns, free user editorials, contests, games and sweepstakes. Dateable.com also provides a database of personal-oriented websites on a wide variety of topics. "The Internet has enormous potential to pull people together through shared interests and passions, but it can also be an extremely isolating medium," said Jennifer Klein, a Web designer who created Dateable.Com to fill what she saw as "a disturbing gap in the volume and quality of personal lifestyle resources presently available on the Web." Klein added, "the personal sites currently out there are specialized in terms of their content and their audience. I wanted to see a central, inclusive, shared community that reflects and represents the real cross-section of people online today – singles, couples, straight and gay – who are seeking vehicles for anonymous self-expression, and tools for information and enlightenment. So I built one." The American Experience Announces Cold War Website Pick a target, detonate a device and view the awesome power of a thermonuclear explosion in "Race for the Superbomb," a new Web feature from The American Experience Online. At the dawn of the Cold War, the United States initiated a top-secret program to build a weapon even more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Japan. A world away, on the frozen steppes of Siberia, the Soviet Union began a similar effort. The American Experience Online unravels the web of spies and scientists, intrigue and deception that marked the race to develop the "super" or hydrogen bomb. The Race for the Superbomb website accompanies a two-hour special airing on The American Experience Monday, January 11, at 9pm on PBS (check local listings). The American Experience Online produces a companion website for every new television broadcast of The American Experience, with information beyond the broadcast including program schedules, teacher guides, audience feedback, and links to related sites. The American Experience Online also produces WayBack: US History for Kids, a US history webzine targeted to kids ages 9 to 13. Click here to return to the homepage of The Write NewsTM Click here to subscribe to our free weekly email newsletter.  www.writenews.com Copyright © 1997-2007 by Writers Write, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
