(January 26,  2005) - A number of readers let us know that our surveillance on RSS developments has been less than stellar. In other words, Craig's is not the only RSS Syndicator in the job board marketplace. Slowly but surely, the change is coming.

For instance, NatureJobs is in the process of integrating RSS distribution with a semantic search engine. (Their team's technical paper, The Role of RSS in Science Publishing, is well worth a read.) NatureJobs is the kind of targeted delivery that we constantly rave about. There's a nice writeup about the RSS service.

Here are a number of useful examples. RSS is spreading into our world faster than we imagined.

• We've occasionally mentioned RSSJobs. This service allows a user to create searches on various job boards and then receive the results in an RSS format.
• Jobs.Feedster.com is a beta service designed to offer an index of all job feeds.
• Activewireless.com offers job seekers a fairly customized job feed.
• Think Resources is a contract employment agency that appears to use RSS Jobs to create its feeds.
• 2RSS.com, a massive index of RSS feeds includes about 200 job feeds
• Surprise: Flipdog does it too.
• Job.com offers a straightforward tutorial about their RSS services.
• Universitywork.com (which specializes in jobs at universities) shows a clever way to organize a lot of feeds.
• ScienceJobsBlog comes from a UK search firm.
• Here's a French RSS Job feed.
• The Oracle Job Site is all RSS all the time.

John Sumser

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