Archive for the ‘LinkedIn News’ Category
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
I've been seriously following LinkedIn's progress for a few years now but recently just learned about Ian McCarthy. Not sure why it has taken me so long to figure out who he is, since he is the guy who drives the actual product.
I was reading up on the new changes ...
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Thursday, May 6th, 2010
Monday (saturday) I wrote about following companies on LinkedIn. Here's a fun sidenote... TechCrunch has company profiles... here's what they are reporting about LinkedIn:
Founded: May 1, 2003 (I remember they celebrate Cinco De Mayo (May 5th) as their anniversary... I'm not sure what the discrepency is.
Funding: $103M - they got ...
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Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
Cinco de Mayo is the big celebration day at the LinkedIn offices - I would love to celebrate it at their offices with them.
Here are some past blog posts from the LinkedIn blog about their yearly anniversary - some fun info pops up in these posts:
May 4, 2007: Moving Trucks ...
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Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Ever wonder how big LinkedIn is RIGHT NOW? I just got an email (that I suspect might be slightly outdated) that said:
Over 63 million members. Our membership is growing. Target the 100,000 new professionals that join each week.
So they are 63M this week.
They grow at 100,000 each week.
There are 39 ...
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Update: 4/9 - just came across this list from a Scott Allen post: lots of LinkedIn people on Twitter.
Out of curiousity, and to wind down from finishing the recordings for the second edition of LinkedIn for Job Seekers (DVD), I thought I'd see who at LinkedIn is on Twitter, how ...
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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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