Partnerships, acquisitions, and new service launches continue to heat up in the social networking space — Are all of these moves in the "best" interest of the communities these YASNs serve? I hear echoes of dana boyd speaking of "context" and "best" as being "in the eye of the beholder."

SAN FRANCISCO, March 1 /PRNewswire/ — Tribe Networks, a company
pioneering a new approach to the online classifieds business through its popular Web site http://www.tribe.net, today announced a partnership with CareerBuilder.com, a leading online career site with over 16 million monthly unique visitors and more than 400,000 continuously updated jobs.  Through this relationship, Tribe.net's users will be able to access CareerBuilder.com's job postings from over 25,000 top employers and leverage their own social and
affinity networks to maximize job search efforts.

According to CareerBuilder.com's "Plans for 2004" survey completed in
December 2003, 40 percent of workers said they plan to change jobs this year. Workers also revealed that the top three methods they use for finding new positions are newspaper classifieds, online career sites and networking — making the relationship between Tribe.net and CareerBuilder.com a natural fit.

..."Our mission is to give people a better way to leverage their own networks to connect with life-changing opportunities big and small," said Mark Pincus, CEO of Tribe Networks.  "By partnering with CareerBuilder.com and joining its network of partners, we can offer a critical mass of local job listings that matter to our audience."