Bye-bye classified  Every time I say that classified didn’t just
move online, it is dying as a category, someone chimes into the
comments, arguing that it couldn’t be so. But look at this
report from PaidContent. Software, social software, and online
functionality are replacing the classified ad. The internet
makes connections and ads are supposed to make connections and
now they can be made directly:  In the past six months, visits
to the big three online recruiters, Monster, Yahoo’s HotJobs,
and CareerBuilder dropped by 23.7 percent, 18.4 percent, and 7.1
percent, respectively, Hitwise reports. The reason, BusinessWeek
reports, is the rise of social networks and job sites dedicated
to matching employers and job seekers in very specific pockets
of the job market – sites where musicians looking for work on
cruise ships, for example. To cope, The Big Three have been
embarking on series of partnerships with newspaper chains –
cases in point: Monster’s deal with Freedom Communications,
which owns 36 newspapers a