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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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 ...
The LinkedIn Killer: Wall Street Journal takes a STAB at it
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009How 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 ...
LinkedIn Gets a New Boss
Thursday, June 25th, 2009Yesterday 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 ...
LinkedIn History: Colleaguester.com
Friday, April 10th, 2009I 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 ...
LinkedIn Demographics – Who Uses LinkedIn
Friday, September 26th, 2008I'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 ...
Changes, Changes…
Monday, October 15th, 2007Some 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 ...
