Simply Hired's Job-a-matic Brings Job Sites to Millions of Six Apart Users

Market Wire, July, 2007

Simply Hired ( www.simplyhired.com ) and Six Apart ( www.sixapart.com ) have combined forces to offer customized job site functionality ( www.jobamatic.com ) to the users of TypePad, Six Apart's award-winning blogging service, for TypePad users' blogs and websites.

"Six Apart provides leading blogging and social mediatools to bloggers around the world, with over 40 million unique visitors per month, and we are pleased to be affiliated with a company of their caliber," stated Gautam Godhwani, CEO of Simply Hired. "We are excited about mashing our patented technology with the rich, diverse topics covered by TypePad users and to add monetizable and relevant content to their sites."

With one simple click, TypePad users will be able to add relevant jobs to their blogs and start on the road to making money when employers post jobs and when readers view targeted jobs on their sites.

"TypePad bloggers are always looking for new and relevant content to add to their sites and if they can make money in the process, then it's a win-win proposition for all," stated Michael Sippey, VP of Product in the Professional division at Six Apart. "By adding the Simply Hired Job-a-matic technology to their blogs, our customers are able to provide value to their loyal readers. We're happy to be providing this revenue-making opportunity to our customers."

Both Simply Hired (promoting their Job-a-matic product) and Six Apart will be participating at BlogHer '07 ( http://blogher.org/node/17751 ), the conference for women bloggers that starts tomorrow in Chicago.

About Six Apart

Six Apart Ltd. provides award-winning blogging software and services that change the way millions of individuals, organizations, and corporations connect and communicate across the world every day. Founded in 2002 by husband and wife team Ben Trott and Mena G. Trott, Six Apart is a global company with its headquarters in San Francisco, CA, and offices in Europe and Japan. The company continues to lead in the blogging and social media industry with the Movable Type publishing platform, the TypePad hosted blogging service, LiveJournal, an online community organized around personal journals, and Vox, a free blogging service for friends and families. For more information visit the Six Apart corporate web site at http://www.sixapart.com/ .

About Simply Hired

With more than 5 million job listings and counting, Simply Hired ( www.SimplyHired.com ) is the world's largest search engine for jobs and recruitment advertising network. We search thousands of sources, including job boards, newspaper and classified listings, and company websites. Our mission is to help people find their ideal jobs in the simplest way possible. Simply Hired has been lauded as one of the "50 Coolest Websites" by Time Magazine, declared "Best of the Web" by BusinessWeek and celebrated as one of "50 Best New Websites" by PC World.

With Job-a-matic ( www.jobamatic.com ), Simply Hired also enables online publishers to create turnkey job sites, and generate revenue from paid job listings. Simply Hired has raised $17.7M in funding from News Corporation's Fox Interactive Media, Foundation Capital, Garage Technology Ventures and individual investors. The company is privately held and is based in Mountain View, California.

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