Today over on our mother ship ReadWriteWeb, we are publishing our aggregate numbers for the first 3 months of 2009. As you may have noticed, Jobwire has changed to ReadWriteHire. Look for other exciting changes over the next few weeks. Along with the new look, we plan to bring you even more good news, interviews, profiles of important hires in hot sectors and lots of helpful data.
Today on ReadWriteWeb, Frederic Lardinois reported that social web annotation tool Reframe It has added integration with Twitter and Facebook to its features and is looking at a number of interesting revenue models. What impresses us here at Jobwire is the company's executive team and the incredible list of internet luminaries that the company has put together to sit on its Advisory Board.
Earlier this month RWW wrote about social search engine Aardvark and called it " A Better Social Q&A Than Twitter". The San Francisco based company has decided to beef up its technical team and plans to roll out a new iPhone app in the next two months. It has hired Director of Yahoo's Grid Computing Group and a founding member of the Hadoop project Sameer Paranjpye and Ben Keighran, the founder of mobile messaging service Bluepulse to help push the project forward.
Activision Blizzard announced today that it has appointed former Yahoo! COO Dan Rosensweig to be its new President and CEO of of RedOctane, the business unit which develops the mega-popular video game Guitar Hero. Rosensweig will be responsible for Guitar Hero's global operations "including game development, hardware manufacturing, supply chain, logistics and marketing" and report to President & CEO of Activision Publishing Mike Griffith.

NOTE: This aggregate stats post was originally written and posted on ReadWriteWeb by Marshall Kirkpatrick. It has been viewed over 26,000 times and "dugg" 587 times. The many comments we received tell us that people want to know about who is getting hired in technology and new media and they want to know what sectors are hiring. We will continue to work hard to bring you these numbers, but we need your help. Please read below to find out how you can send us your tips and information about new hires and feel free to leave us your comments about what kinds of things you want to see on Jobwire.
It may be dismal economic times, but some companies are continuing to make new hires in tech and new media. That's what we track on our Jobwire site and below you'll find aggregate hiring numbers for the first 6 weeks of the new year.
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Online marketing pioneer Tara Hunt announced on her blog today that she will be joining accounting software firm Intuit as its new Marketing Lead on their Partner Platform.
The WhiteHouse.gov website saw major improvements today thanks to the efforts of Macon Phillips, The White House's newly appointed New Media Director. One minute after the inauguration, Phillips posted an entry entitled "Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov" and introduced himself as one of several people who will blog on the site. In the post he says, "our initial new media efforts will center around three priorities: communication, transparency and participation".
Private equity power blogger Dan Primack has unearthed paperwork indicating that eBay founder Pierre Omidyar is on the executive team of a new stealth startup called Ginx. The service is being offered by invite only right now but we were able to discover a few things about it by seeing what a handful of early testers have said publicly.
Joshua Schachter, the creator of one of the most important consumer web applications in recent time, has joined Google, according to venture capitalist Josh Koppleman. Schachter's social bookmarking service Delicious was acquired by Yahoo! three years ago last month. Schachter was required to spend 2 years at the company after the acquisition but has now been a free man for six months.