The cool kids at 6A are letting us sit at their lunch table.

today, jobster and typepad are teaming up to enable typepad bloggers to easily add a sidebar with relevant jobs and/or a jobster search box to their blogs.

To sweeten the deal, 400 random people who add the jobster widget to their blogs in the next two days will win a free year of typepad.

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eta: shaug's post on the subject does a better job at describing the problem we're trying to solve:

For a year now, one of our key job advertising features has been based around targeted emails. For example, a recruiter will send email through Jobster to some of their contacts (say, other employees at their company) about an opportunity they're trying to find candidates for. These recipients can, in turn, send these opportunities on to their own contacts, and so on. While this has been very successful for us in discovering otherwise hard-to-find prospects for our customers, it's by no means the only tool we want to rely on for finding qualified professionals.

and at putting this new feature into context:

this [is] just our first small step into the distributed job advertising arena. Email campaigns got us off the ground, but exploring opportunities like these, I believe, will allow Jobster to make a real difference in this market on a much broader scale.

This purported merger is a breech of contract, and I plan on suing Brad, Livejournal, Danga, and Six Apart if it goes through. I have already retained the legal counsel of Philip Beck, and we will proceed with the suit accordingly.