Who's getting those jobs? What kinds of positions are being filled and in what sectors? Check out our first set of charts below from last week's aggregate activity on Jobwire to find out the answer to those questions. One interesting tidbit? Software developers are getting hired by social networking companies. If you got a job or your company made a hire in tech or new media this week - send us a note about it at jobwire@readwriteweb.com. Read on for details on how last week looked.

We reported on 48 hires last week and the following is the break-out by job title. We're sure that there are more interesting hires of developers going on and we're doing our best to find them - but they are a little harder to find than some of the executive hires that get announced by companies. None the less, we find these first numbers interesting.

Hires by Sector

What kinds of companies did we report on last week? Here's the break-out by sector.

Note: "Other" includes sectors like retail, search, security and gaming this week. For specifics, see the Jobwire site.

We expect next week's numbers by sector could look very different, but we'll be tracking them closely and we'll let you know. We think that people's new jobs are a lot of fun to find out about and we think the information can prove quite valuable.

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But Google Reader isn't the only web app that could use a feature like this. If we could pick any other Google service to provide an analysis of our habits, it would certainly be Gmail. But could it be that Trends for Gmail is already underway?

A recent post by Ed Kohler pointed us to a project under development for this very purpose. The project, called simply "Mail Trends," was mentioned on Mihai Parparita's personal blog back in March. (Parparita is a Google employee who had helped to build Google Reader itself.) Since Gmail doesn't have an official API, Mail Trends instead uses Gmail's IMAP support to pull the message headers and analyze them in order to extrapolate the data. Mail Trends can generate tables, graphs and distributions based on time of day, senders, recipients, mailing lists, etc. You can see an example of what it can output here where Parparita ran it on a piece of the Enron Email Dataset.

The project, currently hosted at Google Code, offers the code available for download, but, unfortunately to run it over your own email, you have to do geeky programmer things like downloading something called Cheetah and mess around with a command prompt. There is not an executable file for either Mac or PC. (Lifehacker has a step-by-step guide to installation if you want to go this route, though).

We Need Mail Trends!

Outlook users already have an add-in called Xobni (our coverage) which provides a look at email trends among other things, so why not Gmail?

Although Mail Trends is clearly a personal project, we wonder if there's any chance of seeing it show up one day in Gmail's Labs section. Labs, the area under Gmail's Settings that introduces experimental features seems the ideal place to debut the trends technology...at least until it's perfected.

We contacted Parparita to see if there was any chance of that ever happening, but he never responded.

You might not make graphs very often, but the next time you do - this service is worth a look. There are a lot of graph making tools online, but few are as easy to use and attractive as this one.

Currently, Widgenie users are limited to uploading Excel or CSV files. In the near future the company says it will support graph creation from 3rd party data sources, including dynamic ones like Google Spreadsheets. The company says this functionality is likely to become available in the final months of this year.

Obviously my little sample spreadsheet isn't particularly well suited for a pie chart, but the chart is attractive enough, is it not?

Output

The service offers six different types of widgets: Tabular, Animated Line Chart, Animated Bar Chart, Animated Pie Chart, Animated Area Chart and a Text Cloud Widget. The widgets are very easy to configure and are embedded using Javascript. Further customization options would be good to have, the aesthetics of the graphs are relatively unchangeable.

We had some file uploading problems the first few times we tried the service, but it appears to be working now. The embed code for the primary widget is broken, we used the code for Blogger, but the company says that's a bug that will be fixed later this week. If everything about the service worked like it ought to then it wouldn't be a startup, would it?

Analytics

One of the most charming details here is the provision of viewership analytics. It's pretty simple, but Widgenie shows you how many viewers your widgets have had, from what sites and when. That's a pretty handy and fun feature for a free service.

Context

There is so much data flying around on the web that good tools for visualizing it are important. That's why we said at the start of the year that Data Visualization was going to be a key trend in 2008. We're not sure how well that prediction has played out, but it does help us appreciate the need for good services like Widgenie.

Trackur Trends

Unlike a larger service like Google Trends, for example, which only displays trends that are massive enough to cause a spike in overall search volume, Trackur Trends can regularly search for any keywords or phrase you choose, no matter how small or how rare it is that they are mentioned. You can also add filters to your search to help narrow down your results even further.

However, this new addition does not affect the price for the Trackur service - in fact, the price has now been lowered. The new pricing model actually makes it more affordable for everyone, but becomes especially appealing to the SMB market. Before, at $88/month, we wondered if Trackur did enough to make the service worth it, but today, Trackur's Standard service is available for only $18/month, so the answer to that earlier question is now "YES." (Note: the Enterprise version of the service changed to $188-197/month.)

If you're interested in using Trackur for your trend tracking needs, ReadWriteWeb has 5 free, 6-month Standard subscriptions to give away - just comment below with your information.