BanyanLink,
‘the premier professional utility and online network designed for
everything college and beyond,’ launched today. Crains’ Amanda Fung covers it here.
It looks like its
another social network for college student trying to connect w
employers and vice versa (see Kickstart). I think Facebook and LinkedIn have this covered.
Some technology companies will do anything for a little press.
Case in point: Itzbig is trying to milk Mike Huckabee’s dropping out of the presidential campaign for press.
In a press release titled,‘
Presidential Candidate Laments the Lack of a ‘Plan
B’, Itzbig argues that, had Huckabee registered with the career matching service, he would have had a better job offer waiting for him upon his resignation from the campaign.
I think the money spent on writing and releasing the press release would have been better spent buying links or display ads on site like mine, cheezhead, recruitingblogs and recruiting.com.
Update, 3/8/08:
But maybe I’m wrong. What they have been doing seems to be working. Itzbig just announced they landed Logitech..
