Joe describes the newly updated Jobster Community blog:

Part of our launch yesterday was a revamp of the Jobster Community Blog. It’s a shared blog for the product team to write about new features, highlight interesting community content, and (when I have time write a post) share a nerdy glimpse into our development process.

We’re lucky to have arielmeadow as our main author, she writes nonstop, and she puts up with me when I substitute a hypen for an mdash.

The blog includes excerpts from the community content the main Jobster site, like an inside look at the new startup Snapvine, which is hiring.

What’s unique about working at Snapvine?
We throw awesome parties!

What’s the best team you worked with at Snapvine?
There is only one team at Snapvine… We are in this together.

What are the three best things about working at Snapvine?
The team we have, the opportunity we are going after, the service we are building
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Berry411 v3.20 is now available from the Berry411 download page

The major new features are the ability to add a business to your address book or to set your current location directly from a search result page. The latter feature is especially handy if you’re at a business and want to find other nearby businesses.

(From a technical standpoint, there is some very interesting magic going on behind the scenes to enable these features– a new XML based scripting language registered by Berry411 that allows a web page to interact with the address book and other features of the phone. I describe how this works in more detail in a subsequent post.)

Below is a tour of some of the new features. These new features are seen are the details page you get when you click on a business search result.

1. The “Add Address” menu item on the search details page.

2. After adding an address, you can now go directly to the address book or back to the main search screen.

3. The newly added address.

4. Setting your current location