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Say you need a job board for your company website, what do you do? If you’re like a lot of companies I’ve seen, you’ll create a new page with job listings and add a Human Resources contact email address for resume submission. It’s rather bland and might result in resumes inundating your inbox, but it’s a quick fix to get the word out about new positions.

If you’re looking to add something a little more robust, complete with job and resume management tools, you can now turn to The Resumator for all the heavy lifting.

The Resumator, which costs $59/mo (or try a 30 day free trial) to manage an unlimited number of jobs, resumes, and user accounts, might be the fastest way to get a job board up and running on your website. Just sign up and immediately start managing your hiring process through The Resumator by creating your listings and inserting one line of code on your jobs page.

Resumes collected by the system are easily accessible from an administrative dashboard, where they are automatically sorted by job, indexed for text searches, and viewable in your browser. Candidates can be tracked, ranked, and discussed to keep prospects in the system up to date.

The Resumator also moonlights as a job board recommendation engine, helping you and your HR team find the best job boards across the web, based on position type, to push out your listings.

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Our favorite URL shortening service, Bit.ly, has just released a Firefox plug-in that you'll probably want to add to your browser. It lets users hover over shortened URLs from a wide variety of services, including TinyURL, and see the resulting full URL as well as how many people have clicked through the shortcut.

Along with Bit.ly's semantic analysis of destination pages, the data unearthed by this new plug-in holds a lot of promise. The plug-in also does some handy tricks on Twitter. It's not perfect yet, but it holds a lot of promise.

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We profiled Bit.ly when it launched in July and recommended using it for URL shortening because it makes use of all the valuable data that other URL shorteners leave unused.

The clickthrough data is great to see, but it's not without some serious shortcomings. Bit.ly queries a long list of URL shortening services' APIs to get traffic data and some of them don't update very frequently. There's also a lot of phantom clicks showing up; the company believes they've found a 3rd party app that's partially loading the destination pages and inflating the numbers, but we'll see if they can do anything about it. For now this data is far better for determining the relative popularity of a shortened link than it is for literal numbers.

Twitter users will like the extension because hovering over any username there makes the user's information pop-up. That works quite well and is very useful. It's a fast way to see who someone is talking to in a conversation on Twitter.

The moral of the story here is that in little things like URL shortening, there's a whole lot of valuable information and room for innovation. We're glad that Bit.ly is moving to take advantage of that and we look forward to seeing what still other people will do with the data once it's stockpiled and made available by Bit.ly for further development.

You can get the Bit.ly extension for Firefox here.

WordPress 2.7 completely overhauled the admin area of your blog, so isn’t it time you treated yourself with an overhaul of the front end also?

Why not pick something radically different than the usual blog look? Not only can you have a blog that stands out, you can completely change the function of WordPress to be a photoblog or a CMS, the possibilities are pretty much limitless with this powerful program. Here are 10 of the best themes to choose from.

What are some of your favorite non-traditional themes?

Album

Album - The perfect theme for any artist, photographer or designer that wants to display their work.  Has seven different color schemes to better match your work.  Cost for an individual license is $59.95.

Blue Grace

Blue Grace - A 3-column theme that has the unusual distinction of not making you feel crowded as you read it.  Colors can be customized by playing around with a PSD file, and it is released under the GPL license.

Celebrity Gossip

Celebrity Gossip - Despite the name, Celebrity Gossip can be used for just about anything.  Thumbnails of images are auto generated from the first image in a post, but you can also override the selection manually.  Has 3 different color styles, widgets, 125×125 ads and more.  Cost for an individual license is $35.00.

Google Chrome

Google Chrome - Can’t get enough of Google Chrome?  Well, you can now carry it over to your blog in a surprisingly effective translation.  Very open and clean, but we would warn to be wary of adding too many widgets as they would be very noticeable.  Released under the GPL license.

iQ2

iQ2 - A photoblog theme built around the PhotoQ Photoblog Plugin which gives you choice of colors for the theme, the ability to batch upload photos and a whole lot more.  No license is listed on the page, but seeing as there is an easy download link handy and donate button, one assumes it is free.

Over Easy

Over Easy - A CMS theme that features lots of highlighting for various articles with a really interesting sliding header to feature multiple pages.  Also has a blog hidden away in it so you can do normal blogging if you choose.  Cost for an individual license is $70.00.

THiCK

THiCK - A highly customizable theme built with the social media minded individual in mind.  Shows your latest Tweets, your social profiles, a LifeStream section for all of your latest activities, and has over 20 styles and colors available.  Cost for an individual license is $70.00.

TimesCafe News

TimeCafe News - This mixture of magazine style and CMS comes in three colors and caters heavily to those that use a lot of pages on their site.  Has lots of ad slots, video coding ready, FeedBurner options and more.  Cost for an individual license is $79.95.

Vigilance

Vigilance - A highly customizable theme that allows you to make all sorts of changes to the top image. Highlight box in posts, Google Analytics ready, multiple sidebar configurations and numerous changes allowed to the design.  Best of all it’s small in size and free to use.

WP Remix

WP Remix - A theme built around the idea of your WordPress site being used as a CMS, WP Remix comes bundled with 50 different page layouts allowing you to quickly change the look of your site, or even of a single page.  They also offer a magazine module separately.  Cost for an individual license is $75.00.

Interested in more WordPress resources? Check these out:

WordPress Themes: “Top 12 Stunning WordPress Themes“, “30+ WordPress 3 Column Themes,” “20 WordPress 4-Column Themes,” “30+ WordPress 1-Column Themes,” “10 Unusual & Original WordPress Themes”

Plugins: “20+ Great WordPress 2.7 Compatible Plugins,” “50+ WordPress Plugins for Multimedia,” “30+ WordPress Plugins for Statistics,” “30+ WordPress Plugins for Comments,” “30+ WordPress Plugins to Get More Blog Readers.”

Miscellaneous: “WordPress God: 300+ Tools for Running Your WordPress Blog,” “The 7 Weirdest and Wackiest Uses for WordPress“

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Amidst all the coverage of the new iTunes pricing structure - and the fact that purchased songs will be DRM-free from now on - not many reporters pointed out (there are exceptions, of course) that Apple is actually charging 30 cents for DRM removal from old songs.

Yes, you can burn the songs to a CD and import them back into iTunes, but the quality of the tracks will deteriorate. What’s important here is the fact that Apple is now basically admitting (remember that long anti-DRM note from Steve Jobs?) that DRM was a mistake, but they still want you to pay them for it. I don’t know about you, but I don’t like paying for others’ mistakes.

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