Much maligned job board / social networking / whatever else is cool site
Jobster.com has scored a big thumbs down in an article titled "
10 'Net services that will succeed, and 10 that will probably fail".
You can read the article
here.
Jobster has had $18m+ in investment, has all the you beaut web 2.0 features you could ever want and has had endless press coverage in the US (although not all of it good). Yet here they are 2 years down the track and they have barely made a dent in the job board space. And if this article is to be believed then they are not looking like they will in future.
So why has Jobster not been a runaway success? In my opinion it is simple. If you are looking for a job then you don't care less about social networking, videos, pictures etc. You are there to find a job.
It baffles me why some job boards want to pile all the extraneous functionality on their sites. Can you imagine if Google started trying to sell you a house or a car when you went do a search? Imagine if you had to watch a video ad or scroll past "hot girls seeking hot guys" pictures when you go to do a Google search. It wouldn't happen - you would quickly find another search site to use.
