The world of online staffing saw an IPO last week along with other announcements. Staffing Industry Analysts Affiliate Analyst Andrew Karpie discusses the events of last week — which include the freelancer.com IPO, Elance’s partnership with IBM and the inaugural meeting of the SF Bay Area Online Staffing and Human Cloud/Cloud Labor Meetup Community — in a new post in The Contingent Blog. For the blog, click here.