VisualCV Inc. in Reston, Va., announced this week that washingtonpost.com has signed a deal to incorporate the Powered by VisualCV private-label platform in its advertiser offer. VisualCV turns resumes into a media-rich career- and business-development tools for individuals and organizations.

The companion site to the Boston Globe has introduced a site to aid community involvement

The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) has released new metrics that guide digital video advertising. A group of 145 interactive companies which form the IAB��s Digital Video Committee were involved in creating ways to improve the reporting of metrics for ad agencies and marketers.

North Jersey Media Group in Hackensack, N.J., now offers what it calls "the most up-to-date residential, commercial, and other real estate sales information" for free on its www.northjerseyresales.com site. The information covers transactions in Bergen and Passaic counties, where the group publishes dailies.

Boston.com is adding MetaCarta services to its Web site to provide geographic search.

Cella Irvine has been appointed head of About.com, The New York Times Co. announced today. Irvine will become CEO of the Internet guide on July 28 and will report to Martin Nisenholtz, senior vice president of digital operations at the New York Times Co.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) opened up its membership to small interactive publishers in an effort to help these publishers prevent regulations that could hinder the sites' ability to carry or sell advertising.

Fairfax Media today launched WAtoday.com.au, Western Australia's first online-only newspaper. Based in Perth, it shares facilities with colleagues at the group's Radio 6PR.

Chet Rhodes, assistant managing editor for news video at The Washington Post, talks to Beet.Tv's Andy Plesser about the paper's strategy for teaching journalists to wield a video camera. So far, about 185 Post staffers have been trained to shoot video.

Scott Rosenburgh has been named vice president of interactive media for Shaw Suburban Media of Greater Chicago, which includes the Northwest Herald, DeKalb Daily Chronicle, and Kane County Chronicle.

The Los Angeles Times added another blog covering technology to its stable.

GateHouse Media's New England division is partnering with TownConnect for social networking and other community tools for GateHouse's 159 "Wicked Local" town Web sites in Massachusetts.

NewspaperDirect Inc. is adopting the Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP) for its digital publication networks, giving its publishing partners more protection over their content.

A year after its founding, LoudonExtra.com isn't drawing hits

The E.W. Scripps Co. Wednesday named Jim York director of information technology for its newspaper division, which this summer will be spun off as a separate company.

Kendall Marolda, CareerBuilder's newspaper relationship manager, has joined Verve Wireless as vice president of local market development. In her new role, Marolda will work closely with publishers who want to expand their content to mobile devices.

More than 80 years of the New York Tribune are being digitized by ProQuest.

Caspio, Inc. today announced that McClatchy Interactive has adopted Caspio Bridge to deliver more traffic to its Web sites and monetize its database assets. McClatchy is adopting Caspio Bridge as a rapid database- and application-building platform for its Web sites after deployment at five of its large dailies.

The Washington Post has long based its online strategy on getting people to its Web site, where they can consume content and be exposed to advertising. Now, the paper is starting to augment that approach with a distributed content strategy it hopes will bring Post content to people wherever they are.

Mary Katharine Ham has been named online editor for The Washington Examiner��s soon-to-be launched Web site, dcexaminer.com. Ham most recently served as managing editor of TownHall.com.