Do you use LinkedIn? OK, you’re all savvy marketers so perhaps the better question is; how do you use LinkedIn?
LinkedIn Changes Put it Ahead of Facebook?
LinkedIn, the business-networking site that many (including me) see as an also-ran in the social-networking game, has launched some new features, including a redesigned homepage and a rollout of its previously announced developer platform, which it hopes will make its network as extensible as Facebook has with the F8 platform.
LinkedIn Growing More Quickly than Facebook
Nick O’Neill has an interesting post on his very good “Social Times” site. (How, by the way, does he find time to post so much??)
Facebook Out to Get LinkedIn
Facebook is all over the news today. I know, I know, just another day at the office.
Yahoo Tests A Facebook/LinkedIn Contender
This new product may never make it out of research and development, but word has it that Yahoo is working on a social network called Kickstart. If successful, Kickstart would effectively bridge the gap between Facebook and LinkedIn.
LinkedIn Guerilla Social Networking
Each social networking site has a specific purpose and can help you achieve your business goals. Although LinkedIn seems fairly limited in terms of functions, it can be used to enhance your Internet Marketing efforts if you approach it with the right mindset.
Initially set up for the business community to network, share contacts and recommend acquaintances for open job positions, it appears the site has been attempting to expand its scope.
LinkedIn Links to Recent Contacts, Redefines Recent
On Friday, I wondered what happened to a favorite LinkedIn feature for viewing recent users. I received two subsequent emails from customer service, only to find out I was wrong about the feature because of LinkedIn’s questionable grammar. The semantic web’s a long way off if we can’t master our native languages’ semantics first.
Here’s the first of the two responses:
Linkedin Calls Customer Delusional
It’s fun being called delusional by customer service. Today, LinkedIn is trying to make me feel like I’m in that Jodie Foster movie Flightplan where she claims her daughter was kidnapped while on an airplane and everyone else thinks she’s nuts. The movie wasn’t supposed to be very good (it scored 38% on the Tomatometer), and I’m not sure this blog post will be any better, but I can at least empathize with Foster’s character based on the previews.
Facebook Success Doesn’t Equal LinkedIn Death
I don’t know if it’s a human nature thing or a Western civilization thing, but it seems a lot of the time we focus on winners, damn the rest, and assume that when one supplants the other the other drones on eternally in obscurity rather than the two coexisting. We do this even though Coke and Pepsi, McDonald’s and Burger King, Wal-Mart and Target all coexist in free market bliss.
LinkedIn Active-x Control Zero Day
Researchers have released a zero day vulnerability in the LinkedIn active-x control that basically allows evil folks to own your computer.