Archive for the ‘LinkedIn News’ Category
Friday, January 8th, 2010
For a few years I had owned LinkedInHelp.com and LinkedInHelp.net.
Today I finished transferring them to LinkedIn, the company. If you want LinkedIn help you'll have to go to their help resources. I hope that someone there jumps on it and redirects the link instead of letting it drop (especially since ...
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
TechCrunch has a post on The Top Ten IPO Candidates For 2010. LinkedIn is one of the suggestions (it is #3 on the list, although I'm not sure that the list is in any order).
Erick Schonfeld (@erickschonfeld) writes:
>> The other social network,
Very interesting that this is "the other one." ...
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Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Well, so much for rumors. Sarah Lacy asks Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn) some really good questions, including what's up with the LinkedIn acquiring Xing rumor.
Reid says NO. It's before minute two in the video... you can see the whole thing at the Tech Crunch post: TC50 Backstage: Reid Hoffman ...
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
I blogged about Xing (LinkedIn vs. Xing) last November... and when I was in Turkey I met someone from Xing (that was cool, considering I've never met anyone from Xing).
Admittedly, I don't know anything about Xing from a user perspective, but they do seem to have a great hold on ...
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
How do you like that - I came up with a tre-clever title! Killer... stab... ah, I crack myself up :p
Seriously, let's talk about the notion of a LinkedIn Killer. On TechCrunch Michael Arrington writs about the WSJ Connect. Interesting article, which talks about the first attempt the WSJ ...
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Yesterday LinkedIn announced its new President, Jeff Weiner. You can read all about it on TechCrunch's post: Changing Of The Guard: Jeff Weiner Takes CEO Spot At LinkedIn.
I don't really know Reid (although we've exchanged a couple of messages, and he said he's aware of my book and DVD). I ...
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Friday, April 10th, 2009
I was watching this old video from 2006, walking through the LinkedIn's office with Reid Hoffman (interviewed by the famous Loic Le Meur), and at minute 4:14 saw this bit of intriguing history:
In the video Reid says what you can read in the sign: "we were going to call it ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
I've seen this before, but now I can point to a TechCrunch post about LinkedIn Demographics (actually, about advertising on LinkedIn, but that's not what my post is about). Check this out:
Average Age: 41
Household Income: $109,703
Male: 64%
One of my favorite books is How to Lie With Statistics. After reading that ...
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
Some quick changes since the book was written:
One of the LinkedIn-centric e-mail lists that I mentioned and recommended, LinkedInnovators, has shut down. I don't know why, as it had a good membership and good traffic and discussion... but the owners decided to shut it down.
The other list that I ...
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