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September 10th, 2008 at 3:32 pm

This morning, we reported that Facebook would begin transitioning all users over to the new design this week. This afternoon, confirmation from the social network that the process has begun, with the rollout “to be complete within the next few weeks.”

Perhaps most interesting in the news are the numbers. According to Facebook, 40 million people have tried out the new site, with “nearly 30 million” choosing to stick with it. These numbers are slightly more encouraging than earlier stats from third-party tracker Compete, that showed 40% of users who tried the new Facebook were opting to switch back to the old one.

The bigger story is that with more than 100 million users, it means that 60 million – according to Facebook’s own numbers – still haven’t even tried the new site heading into its rollout. That could spell a lot of confusion and a customer service nightmare as unsuspecting users are migrated to the new site.

As we’ve noted, groups protesting the new Facebook have been gaining momentum over the past few weeks, with more than 200,000 now signed up “People against the new Facebook system.” To counter, Facebook points out that the “Facebook Profile Previews” page has more than 140,000 fans.

We might sound like a broken record at this point, but this is a big deal. It’s a dramatic change for the site, and apparently, tens of millions of users still have no idea it’s coming, despite a fairly strong effort by Facebook to communicate the impending changes. The reaction will certainly be exciting to watch.

Source:Mashable!

Though it may seem like many of the job opportunities in the United States have dried up as of late, you can find a wealth of job postings on the Web that may be right up your alley. From programmers to promotions, there are many startup companies looking to hire just the right people for the positions they have open. These 18 services represent a mixture of well-known mainstream sites and companies that focus on nothing more than listings in the Web 2.0/startup market.

Have you had success using these sites? Tell us more in the comments.

General Job Site Startup Listings

AOL.CareerBuilder.com - The nice thing about the AOL.CareerBuilder.com site is that you have the salary range listed on the summary page as opposed to having to go into each listing.

Jobster.com - While they have a startups section, finding Microsoft intermixed in their thousands of listings makes you think it’s more a general technology area.

Monster.com - One of the longest running online job sites has numerous job listings for startups that you can search by company, date, job title or relevance.

Yahoo Hot Jobs - Yahoo’s job listings includes numerous listings for jobs at startups, most of them seem to be centered on the technical side.

Startup Specific

AsiaWired.com - Looking for startups in Asia? This may be the solution for you.

CoNotes.com - Focusing on nothing but jobs at startups, CoNotes has been around since 2007.

Dice.com - Browse jobs by city or pull up the category that applies to your skill set.

ejob.com - ejob focuses on staffing needs in and around Silicon Valley.

GoBigNetwork.com - A one-stop-shop for startups to form business plans, find funding and locate employees that can fulfill their needs.

HotStartupJobs.com - Aggregates startup listings from a multitude of sites. You can read a lengthier write up of HotStartupJobs by our own Paul Glazowski here on Mashable.

Market.Mashable.com - Our very own marketplace features categories for listing jobs and looking for them also.

NeoHire.com - Lets you look up jobs by category, add them to your basket as you find ones that interest you and then apply to all of the ones you’ve saved.

nPost.com - Besides offering numerous job listings at startups, they have 225+ interviews with people from some of the companies explaining what they are about and what they are looking for in an employee.

StartupAgents.com - Both startups and potential employees can set up profiles to try to find the perfect match for each other. The service is completely free to potential employees, but will cost employers to contact potential hires.

StartupJobs.biz - A small jobs board with unique listings that you can search by type of job or occupation.

Startuply.com - Covers various industries related to Web 2.0 and startups, lets you also browse by job type.

StartupZone.com - Allows you to search jobs by occupation, location or even what stage of funding they are in.

VentureLoop.com - Provides internship listings for students at certain schools and has job listings you can search by country or occupation.

Image via CoNotes

Source:Mashable!

Whether you’re into professional or collegiate sports like football and basketball, or follow NASCAR, NHL, PGA, Soccer, or MLB, it’s often the case to take your pick of teams, players, or driver, and see how they do against the opposition - and also how your choices score against those of your friends. This tendency is the basis for CrowdPicks, a place which has over the past year established a fairly active community in the tradition of sportsmanship. This month CrowdPicks continues into its second year as a public beta with an appreciable redesign.

The service is simple in construction, at least on the surface. Nothing will wow you. But neither will anything displease. Everything is clearly laid, easy to navigate, and for the most part, gets the job done. You can socialize, make your picks, check out the most active and most accurate guestimators. All the things you’d want from this sort of gathering ground. And more than half of registrants are said to be return visitors, so you can count on keeping busy so long as you do your part to keep things interesting.

Which brings up the next point. CrowdPicks promises its users a stake in the revenue generated through advertising, ticket sales, store sales, etc. Currently, CrowdPicks manages this give-back program by tracking page views generated by users. This goes for actions like writing blog posts, offering videos, Trophy Room, as well as bonuses given for recruitment of new users. Routine IP checks are conducted for authenticity. “At the end of the month we drop a portion of our revenue into a poll and it is divided up between the members based on their page view percent,” Co-Founder and President Jeff Murname tells me.

He also makes note of an expansion “to include more revenue sharing parameters” such as “general site participation and ‘quality picks.’” The designers are working to make the latter enhancement valid and purposeful “while not giving the appearance of gambling.” In short, it is participation above all that is rewarded with monetary compensation.

This undoubtedly piques the interest of a number of folks. Yet, if you’re in it to net some cash, it is certainly not the ideal place to spend your time. There are more fruitful locations than this, for sure. Instead, it is really just an appealing place to bring your friends or make new ones on the basis of your favorite field(s) of play. As long as it is one of the seven provided, of course.