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Microsoft online exec Berkowitz joins TheLadders board

Executive job site TheLadders.com said on Monday that it has added former Ask.com CEO Steve Berkowitz to its board of directors.

Berkowitz, who has been a senior vice president of Microsoft's online business, is in the process of leaving the software maker, a move announced earlier this year.

"Steve is an experienced and visionary leader whose proven record of success leading online services makes him an ideal person to join our board," said TheLadders.com CEO Marc Cenedella in a statement.

Before Ask.com, Berkowitz was the president and COO of IDG Books.

How does Monster.com use gender and ethnicity information?

I've been signing up with some of the major job sites. I started with NotchUp.com, mostly because I was curious about NotchUp's rather unusual strategy. Candidates are paid for interviews set up through NotchUp.com, while NotchUp itself gets fees from the participating companies.

NotchUp recommends that candidates ask for approximately a full day's pay for an interview. That seems like an extraordinarily high price. Companies are free to make a lower offer, though. I set my asking price well below that day's-pay level, and I'm still not surprised I've had no inquiries. I wonder if it's working for anyone else.

On the recommendation of a friend in the business (he actually works for a different jobs site), I also signed up for TheLadders.com, which specializes in jobs with salaries above $100K/year (which we in California refer to as a "subsistence wage").

New York Tech Meetup riffs on the state of the local industry

NEW YORK--Typically, the monthly New York Tech Meetup is an opportunity for the unpolished founders of brand-new local start-ups to go up onstage, talk about their companies for five minutes, and risk heckling from an audience of 400.

But for the Internet Week New York installment of the gathering on Tuesday evening, host (and Meetup.com founder) Scott Heiferman invited a handful of Gotham tech success stories to talk about the state of their companies. Needless to say, the presentations were a little bit slicker, and the "How're you going to make money?" question, a staple for … Read more

New York jumps on the Lunch 2.0 bandwagon

There are a lot of cool things going on in NYC these days when it comes to technology (do I really have to say that anymore?)--so many, in fact, that you can't hit them all up. On Tuesday, unfortunately, I missed a handful of pretty awesome-sounding CMJ Music Marathon panel discussions about digital music because I was listening in on that Facebook press conference. Priorities, priorities.

Facebook's legal developments, alas, also prevented me from spending more than a few minutes at New York's inaugural Lunch 2.0 event. Lunch 2.0, as the San Francisco Chronicle … Read more