Jobster Mobile, currently in beta, is the first job search service optimized for mobile devices.

Jobster Mobile allows you to use your cellphone to search for jobs from all over the web based on keyword and location. You can subscribe to alerts for jobs matching your preferences, delivered to your PC or directly to your email-enabled phone. Linked pages from job sites are automatically reformatted to fit your mobile screen.

Simply point your phone at http://labs.jobster.com/mobile.

If you use Berry 411, you can access Jobster Mobile using search keyword “jobs:” (e.g. “jobs: sales”).

If you’re already using Firefox (as about 35% of my users do already), Firefox 1.5 is a compelling upgrade. If you’re still on IE or Safari, 1.5 just might tip you over to the edge in terms of switching. Basic browsing is dramatically faster (especially the back button), and there are host of interesting new features for users and developers.

Two such features are Canvas for scriptable bitmap graphics and SVG, a standards based alternative to Flash for vector graphics and animation.

I’ve put together a directory of links and screenshots for some of the best Firefox 1.5 SVG and Canvas Applications and Demos that show off some of their potential.

Especially worth checking out are foXpose, a tiny 6k extension that provides functionality like Apple’s Expose for tabs, and Canvascape, a first person shooter built entirely in Javascript + Canvas.

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I had the pleasure of speaking last Friday with Mark Fletcher and Robyn Deupree of Bloglines about a variety of topics include mobile blog reading, the Bloglines API, and Berry Bloglines.

I was impressed by interest taken by the Bloglines crew in listening to their users and in staying ahead of the curve on different ways to read blogs. I promised to survey my readers, to help provide feedback on what features are most valuable to mobile blog readers, and to provide input to improving and extending the Bloglines API.

For example, one request is that I’ve heard repeatedly from users is for the ability to keep a message as new even after the other messages in the feed have been marked as read. This is currently not possible via the Bloglines API.

So, mobile blog readers, this is your chance to influence mobile blog reading for the better. Please add comment to this message with your answers in the following areas:

(1) What features would you most like to see added to your mobile blog reader?
(2) How often do you read blogs while mobile?
(3) How important are full articles versus summaries?
(4) How important is offline support for you?
(5) What application(s) do you use to read blogs while mobile?
(6) What device(s) do you use to read blogs while mobile?
(7) Anything else you’d like to share

I’ll collect the results and post a summary.