Themes:

JobPress – A very job board-specific theme that allows users to set up their own job boards. You also can accept job listing fee via PayPal.

Templatic Job Board – You can set the option whether to allow free job listings or to have paid listing on the theme settings. Also, this theme comes with 7 color schemes.

Tapp Jobs – A premium theme designed by Press75. To use this theme, you also need to purchase a WordPress form plugin called Gravity Forms.

JobberPress – This theme is currently not available for purchase. As stated on its home page, JobberPress will be relaunched in near future.

Plugins:

WPJobBoard – This plugin is not free, you need to buy it for $97 and activate the plugin in your WordPress dashboard.

Job Listing – A free plugin that allows you to create a fully customizable job board. Meanwhile, you will get an affiliate id which would give you commission for any employer who posts a job.

Job Manager – This plugin offers you such features as manage job listings, create multiple job categories, and advanced filtering on job application forms.

WPCareers – This plugin allows you to build an online jobs/resume, and the applicants will be able to search, update, add/remove, and add or edit their resumes/profiles.

RecruitPress – Still under development; a beta release is tentatively scheduled for the first quarter of 2010.

Wowd, currently in Beta phase, is a search engine that helps users to discover what is popular on the Web.

However, Wowd’s search technology demonstrated to a very wide users that searching on the Web can works well on a peer to peer service principle.

In fact, Wowd’s primary founding idea was derived from Skype’s model. Unlike the leading search engine Google’s million of computer processors, Wowd want users to download its software to their computers in order to create a distributed network that will do the searching, as well as to distribute the Web pages they visited amongst all the Wowd users.

In this way, peer to peer data searching and sharing, no matter where its original Web page resided in; the Web pages will be pooled to the open search results that will benefit all of the Wowd’s users. Think of a Facebook public album that is currently can’t crawled by Google, when a Wowd user visited it, this particular Facebook album will show up on Wowd’s search result whenever a user want to search Facebook album.

For the users to get started in peer to peer searching; after the user downloading the software, Wowd suggests a user to reserve 2 gigabytes on hard drive so that the Web pages he / she visited can be stored and Wowd will update the visited Web pages accordingly. On the other hand, when a user searches for something, the software will then queries its neighbors, which ask for more neighbors, and so on, until the right search result is met.

However, on the downside, some said peer to peer searching will not work as this method is not fast enough and will not penetrate firewalls. Meanwhile, they also doubt how Wowd can convince people to download what really amounts to a voluntary piece of glorified spyware to their computers.

With more and more people joining Google Buzz for status updates, a third-party app, i.e. Buzzzy, known as the search engine for Google Buzz is vying to help make the user experience of Google Buzz become even more productive.

On Buzzzy, for any given query string on its search bar, it will generate results down the right-column that are updated in real-time from Google Buzz. Include in the search results are the avatar, the full name of the user, his / her profession, and a link to the original URL and its content (assuming the content is pull from an external service available on Google Buzz).

In addition, there is a nice feature offered by Buzzzy in which it list down the different timeline, source where the content are pulling from as well as the media (how many content is categorized under image, video, and URL link). This feature allows users to further filter their search results in a simple one-click process.

If you want a search engine that is real-time, and indexed conversations only, look no further than BackType.

On BackType, you can browse the popular topics, hot trends, or you can type in a query, hit the submit button, and voila! BackType will generate the search results based on the keyword in your query and they’ll only pull in conversations from blog posts (WordPress), Digg, Reddit, FriendFeed, Twitter and Hacker News.

In addition, BackType is building a scalable comments search engine. Although it’s akin to WordPress comment system, but with a broader reach to all the conversations indexed by BackType. Meanwhile, they have added few comment-like data sources such as Digg, Mahalo Answers, and etc.

Overall, their goal is to unlock as much as the underlying value in online conversations and comments across the Web.

To know more about BackType, it is founded in June 2008, also a startup that funded by Y Combinator and True Ventures.

Twine is a Web application that applied the common semantic model, based on the fact that human experts are expensive, and users on Twine can provide valuable search and data information.

On Twine, what they do is to provide a semantic Web environment whereby a user is given a profile page, and the ability to social bookmark any link or URL address as he/she like, and Twine will do the rest with its own semantic analysis.

Interestingly, Twine can help users in creating a data information library, discover all the bookmarks that they want to find out, but couldn’t achieve it by one’s own effort. With Twine, it will grouping all the interest things, stuff in an organized way, and thus, we’ll realize the real relationships of these things with our lives. But expect there is a huge volume of data information out there on the Web, it’s always impossible for us to expect Twine will perform well in categorization, classification and tagging automatically on all the data users enter to the site, but more advance their semantic technology evolve, the more it will understand human language, the perception on human towards language or computer code.

After you signing up to Twine, you can meet other users with similar interests, access to the data information collected by them via groups, etc. There are three main features offered by Twine: discover information that matter to users, collect and share bookmarks, and finally, receive recommendations based on interests.

In order to better understand a user’s interest, Twine has provided a “Add To Twine” bookmarklet (drag it to the browser’s toolbar) that enable users to directly add a Web page they like onto their “My Items” of their profile pages. The another way is to email your favorite Web pages through your own personal email address. Also, the Web pages you bookmarked are private, only if you purposely create your own public Twine, and add the Web pages you like to the public Twine, the bookmarks will be appeared as public in both “My Items” and public Twine.

The core of semantic technologies is to find and expose content. To achieve this aim, Twine also allowed users to explore “Top 100 Twines”, and “Top 100 Members.”

To know more about Twine, it is a project of Radar Networks: a startup that based in San Francisco.

TinEye is a reverse image search engine and is currently indexed more than 1.35 billion images from the Web. If you don’t know what is reverse image search, it’s akin to similar image search: by utilizing image recognition technology to help filter out search results.

For this functionality, users who search the images through this type of search engine are not search by text, instead they need to upload an image or type an image’s URL link to the search bar. This contrast with the conventional search engine approach, and TinEye potentially search all the images available on the Web and match the image that user uploaded, whether the images have been photoshoped.

From the results, you can compare the images one-by-one with the different pixel, format and the size of the pictures. Once you identify a particular picture better than the one you’ve just uploaded, you even can trace the original URL of the picture source and save it for your own use.

Try it out and compare the pictures yourself.

Twitxr is a Web service that allows users to share pictures and status updates from their mobile phones. In fact, Twitxr was developed by FON, a company which sells WIFI router and with an aim to helps users get free access to over a million WiFi hotspots worldwide.

After you signing up with Twitxr, you can send your pictures to a variety of external services such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and Picasa. All you need to do is to enter your own log-in credentials of these aforesaid services, then you can start sharing pictures either from your email client or your mobile phones; currently supports iPhone, Windows Mobile, Nokia and Motorola phones.

For email posting, just send an email message containing a photo, a title (location) and update text as body text to your private Twitxr e-mail address. Then, Twitxr will send out your pictures for you. Additionally, you can post text-only updates, picture-only updates or both by using Twitxr.

Want to find out which video has been especially mentioned on the tweets, check out this Tweetz TV.

In fact, Tweetz TV is a Twitter app that aggregating all the YouTube video URL link around various tweets posted by the tweeters from across the Web. Included with each tweet is the related YouTube clip where you can play the video, and the URL link to the video as well as a link to retweet the video link.

Additionally, to view all the videos mentioned by your followers on Twitter is very simple on Tweetz TV: just log in with your Twitter credentials and Tweetz TV will then aggregate all the videos tweeted by the people that you followed.

TwitJump is a newest third-party app that pushed into the Twitterverse. It was created as a Twitter app that helps you to build a social brand for whatsoever reason you joined Twitter, regardless it’s about your blog, product, or company brand.

Since this tool is about brand building, it will show you a bunch of features that does essentially the same same thing as any other Twitter marketing tool by offering tweet scheduling, follows other tweeters based on keywords, performance analysis (followed back count and percentage), un-follow any tweeter if some of them don’t follow you back after one month from the follow date, and many others.

Using TwitJump is just like practicing a scientific approach to run and manage your Twitter account. Once you’ve used keyword search to locate the right tweeters to follow, TwitJump will also provides recommendations on whom you should follow, and it might be a little easier for those who want a one-click bulk following. On the other hand, for those who want to have a 1:1 following and follow back ratio on their Twitter account, TwitJump as a Twitter marketing tool helps you to maintain a mutual follow/follow-back relationship.

In addition, for those tweeters who miss the “Bulk Unfollow” feature offered by Twitter Karma (that TechHotSpot did not profile on this blog at this moment), which has been removed unfortunately. Now, they can used this TwitJump in order to helps you sort through all of your follows and see who’s not following you in return, and remove them if you wish to after one-month of following.

Currently, TwitJump is offering 60-day free trial and comes with a complete features for new users. However, the purchase price for using TwitJump after that 60-day expired still unknown at the time of my writing.

Google Buzz, the newest product that Google pushed into the social media space has really created a buzz recently. For the users of Google’s email service, i.e. GMail, they now can start using Buzz within GMail with a one-click button, and all the powerful features offered by Google Buzz are available in their profiles.

Once you log into GMail, you’ll notice that there is a tab under Inbox, and labeled as “Buzz”. From there, you can set up your Google Profile (with your GMail username as the custom Google Profile username) and start using it the first time by importing photos from your Picasa or Flickr accounts and share the photo albums to your Buzz account.

From a user perspective, Google Buzz is user friendly and easy to use. You can post updates on Google Buzz, insert URL link or photo, and clearly this is a lot like Twitter and Facebook. For each new update (Google called it Buzz), there are public and private settings so that you have the options to send the Buzz to everyone or a specific contact group. Meanwhile Google also want to make sure your followers will participate to your publicly available Buzz, and thus the comment and like, or un-like features are built underneath each of the Buzz. Notable mentions also go to the real-time feature of Buzz; once you send a Buzz, it will instantly show on your Google Profile.

Besides, it’s also important to note that Google Buzz is available via mobile phones in several ways: from Buzz.google.com, Buzz on Google Maps for mobile, Buzz Shortcut from Google.com and Voice Shortcut, which is available in the quick search widget on Android and in Google Mobile App on iPhone.

Meanwhile, there are questions on how should we use Google Buzz to a maximum level. Simply joining Google Buzz, create an account, and following few people as well as sending some Buzz clearly isn’t much different from using the most popular social sites such as Facebook or Twitter. But linking Buzz to millions of GMail users has successfully brought this newly launched social site to a greater height. To date, Buzz simply gained tens of millions of users, mostly thanks to GMail’s loyalty users as the integration of Buzz with Gmail is part of its appeal.

Yet, we tend to think that most of the existing Buzz users like Twitter. And Twitter is officially supported by Buzz, the same is true of Picasa, Flickr, Google Reader and many more to come (but not Facebook). Apparently, most Buzz users are using Google Buzz to import their tweets as a way to send latest updates to their followers. However, it also mean that people are still spending their time on Twitter and on the other hand, Google Buzz currently does not offer any feature that’s so great which well incentivize people to leave behind Twitter, not to mention Facebook and start it over again with a new social site. Ultimately, it takes time to build a totally new strong followers on a new social site.

Nevertheless, if Google Buzz can keep up the momentum and building its own user base day by day across the Web, it’s no doubt that everyone from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies will build their Google Profiles on Buzz as a brand while paying attention to the conversations happening on Buzz.

Online survey has evolved over the recent years. However, for companies if they want to run their online survey within their sites, and not passing this task to some research agencies, then they can check out this app dubbed as the world’s first remote research recruiting Web app called Ethnio.

Ethnio, developed by Bolt | Peters, is a Web app allows companies to recruit participants from the Web for any kind of research for a fraction of the cost of a recruiting agency. All they need is a Web site that their target audience visits and a few minutes to customize the screener. Currently, there are some known issues appeared such as scrollbar and screengrab problems since it is relatively new in the market, but some reputable companies like Adobe, SONY have used its service for the sophisticated live recruiting.

As seen in the below, the online survey form is programing well in a single DHTML layer. The selected research participant can fill out the survey with the availability of text box, check box, or open-end question and etc. One of the common problems in conducting survey is the fakers and Ethnio is able to filter out the fakers by identifying the referring URL for each response.

Currently, Ethnio has three pricing options, free for first 20 recruits, and $400 for up to 200 recruits and up to $800 for above 2,000 recruits. In other words, this is a fair price a company pays $2 for a research participant plus any incentive given considering that the same kind of service they would pay a recruiting agency for $100 per head count.

SWIX is a newly launched analytics that helps to collect and access data for analyzing your social media ROI. Since most companies are ignore social media at their peril, but now they must try to seek out brand opinion via social media as this is where conversations about brands are increasing taking place on the social sites.

However, measuring, calculating and even defining the metrics is not an easy task, not to mention the investment in terms of personnel, costs and time involved. Although there are variety of social media metrics tools available for free, along side with some social media tracking vendors, but it would be fascinating to get more insight into how your brand spread in different social media applications available on the Web via SWIX.

In fact, SWIX not only providing an analysis of the traffic of your company’s blog, they can helps to track the Facebook fan page, YouTube views and many others since the aggregation of various social sites is easy with a SWIX pod be created for each social media application. To know how your social media marketing campaigns are performing, SWIX provides a visual representations of how user are behaving on your different social site accounts and thus, you can make a measurable and meaningful comparisons. In addition, to better understand your social media spending, a simple table of calculation in terms of spent, cost, and return (by percentage) are also shown.

Currently, SWIX offers few level of plans range from personal membership to corporate and enterprise account. Prices range from $9.00 to $249.00.

As Twitter is growing strong, more and more marketers and online business owners are jumping on this revolution and start utilizing it to generate more sales.

However, it is not easy to become a recognized name in whatsoever niche, although Twitter now is regarded as one of the most effective social media marketing tools an online business marketer can have. In other words, to promote the products you sell online, or post the product details in your tweet, and eventually hoping someone to visit the Web site URL link or product link in your tweet, you need followers.

In fact, I am by no means a pro when come to getting a huge followers on Twitter. But you either can look for some promising social media experts where you can outsource the followers building plan to them or paying a premium for a software that allows you to get thousands of followers.

Tweet Adder, a professional Twitter marketing tool is such a tool among others that can helps you get the job done. With Tweet Adder, you can manage your different Twitter accounts (provided you own a license for the unlimited profiles), and most important, to find the like-minded Twitter followers in seconds. You can define who to follow; by keyword in the tweet, or bio and even by location, and with a one-click add follows, Tweet Adder helps you to send from the default fifty (50) to thousand of sends follow as you wish. In return, you can unfollow a Twitter user who does not follow you back. Additionally, once you get a follower, you can even send the pre-set message to your follower.

Overall, nothing is as feature-rich as Tweet Adder for getting more followers on Twitter at this moment. However, the retail price for one (1) profile for this software is $55 and up to $188 for use in unlimited profiles.

Looking for the best bargain or good deals near your area? If you’re like me, checking the best deals on the Web everyday, then one of the sites you must check out is Postabon.

At first glance, I thought Postabon is one of the sites for finding coupons online, but a second look I found that this site works a bit differently from some other sites in that you can find best deals based on the “location” you select.

Postabon, co-founded by three Harvard students in 2009, is currently offers best deals mainly in the categories of eat, shop, entertainment and misc. Although you can enter your zip code and get results for the best deals in your area, but most of the deals are located in NYC.

As the domain name suggests, this site allows the users to “post a bon”, and in the Postabon system, bon is the alternative name for the best deal. However, unlike other best deal sites that aggregate deals across the Web, all the bons appeared on the site are indeed posted by the users. Besides the deal listings, Postabon also assigns a personal profile to each user, in an attempt to build up a reliable and trusted deal finders community. Of course, as a user, you can give deals the thumbs up or down as well as search the bons by numerous methods, such as city name, zip code, or based on categories or top rated that being offered.

Also, for those iPhone users, the Postabon app can gives you the best deals based on your GPS location.

For bloggers, if you want to build your blog and making it a cash profit machine for you, BuySellAds is definitely a great advertisement network besides Google AdSense.

BuySellAds, actually they are now increasingly popular for the bloggers especially in the Web design and development niche. Currently, there have attracted nearly 1,400 blogs as their publishers in which they used BuySellAds as the ads network to sell advertising banners onto their sites. While it’s free to sign-up and use BuySellAds, but you must add a Web property, i.e. your blog’s URL address and get their approval before you are allowed to set up the ad zones onto your site.

It’s important to note that not every blog are qualified as the publishers of BuySellAds. For those who have rejected by BuySellAds, although the blog you’re running is occupied by rich content and high traffic. Perhaps what you can do now other than wondering about why you’ve been rejected via a standard reply email, you can visit this forum thread and learn more about their selection criteria:

…actually in we are #1 in our main vertical which is web design/development, this means it’s easier for us to find an advertiser for someone interested in this niche. We’re sketching up new verticals in the near future.

Bottom point is, although you’re site might have been fantastic, we try our best to keep our publishers happy.

On the other side, once you blog has been approved, BuySellAds will then acts as a broker between you blog and the pool of advertisers. On the downside, however, they do take a slightly larger cut of the cost of the ads. For instance, if the cost of your ad is $10 (the minimum you can price your ad), BuySellAds will cut 25% as the fee of their service, and the remaining $7.50 will be your payout. In the meantime, you can choose the payment option to be PayPal, Check or Wire Transfer.

Overall, BuySellAds is a perfect ad network should you decide to give it a try.