Aussie tech jobs — a brief diversion
February 19, 2008
We took a brief detour down at Deep Grey Labs these past two weeks. We’ve been hanging out a fair bit with other entrepreneurs and technologists in Sydney and noticed that almost every time a group of entrepreneurs and technologists get together there is much complaining about how hard it is to find good people (especially for short gigs), and whenever talented people are seeking cool places to work they complain of the avalanche of boring, faceless job ads in the traditional places.
So we decided to do something about it: enter Jobreel.
Jobreel is a targeted job board, aimed squarely at the top end of the Australian technology industry. Anonymous recruiter ads are not allowed - every post on Jobreel names the employing company so job-seekers know exactly what’s in store (inspired by Joel). This hugely reduces the number of ads that will be posted, compared with somewhere like Seek, so ads will be better able to stand out from this small crowd. Jobreel will be promoted to the cream of Australian talent at conferences, interest groups and other places good techies hang out. (Read more on the FAQ).
We hope Jobreel will help innovative Australian technology companies and great technologists come together, and make the Australian tech industry a little more discoverable. Advertising is currently free while we get started, and it will stay free for early birds for a limited time.
Feedback breeds feedback
February 4, 2008
We pushed out another update today in response to some of the feedback we’ve been receiving — specifically to give you more feedback. Next to each story you see on tiinker you’ll now find a little orange bar indicating how interesting we think the story is to you; a little insight into what tiinker is thinking. You can can use this to guide your ratings and help tiinker learn.
You’ll probably notice that you don’t see all the top-rated articles first; a few more lowly rated stories will be scattered around. We do this on purpose to provide some variety between the various topics that have different levels of interest. If we didn’t, you might get all the stories from one topic area in a huge monotonous bunch, followed by a bunch from a second, and so on. We found it to be much more engaging to have stories from a range of (personalised) topics on each page, as discussed earlier.
We also made a great improvement to the look and feel of stories sent by email, and you can now choose to have stories emailed to you daily, weekly, or not at all.
