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- Microsoft in "spam" partnership with five social networks
- Microsoft in "spam" partnership with five social networksNoneIt was proven that XP did not send any personally identifiable information.At first it was XP phoning home...Now MS and other corps are looking for ways to blatantly invade your privacy. They don't care as long as they can make money from it....
- Tags: Business structures, Cyberthreats, Spam, Microsoft Windows XP, social networking, Microsoft Corp., partnership, network
- Discussion threads 2008-03-25
- Companies get profiled on LinkedIn
- Companies get profiled on LinkedInyait,s a new feature that they have added great to see that.http://laptops.baysworld.com
- Tags: LinkedIn, Companies
- Discussion threads 2008-03-24
- Companies get profiled on LinkedIn
- LinkedIn, the career oriented social networking site, has rolled out a new feature today called Company Profiles, described as "a new research tool that helps you find and explore companies that you might want to work for or do business with." Each Company Profile page, of which...
- Tags: LinkedIn, Social Networking, Storage, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Hardware, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- Lookout LinkedIn, Facebook adds granular privacy controls (IM to follow)
- Lookout LinkedIn, Facebook adds granular privacy controls IM to followToo simple....SteveSorry but I can't help but think your analysis is a little simplistic. If LinkedIn were completely stagnant then maybe you'd be correct but you ignore the fact that LinkedIn have significant opportunities that they could leverage if they saw...
- Tags: Instant messaging, IM, LinkedIn, Facebook, Lookout Software
- Discussion threads 2008-03-18
- Lookout LinkedIn, Facebook adds granular privacy controls (IM to follow)
- At a press event today Techmeme, Facebook unveiled new privacy controls for the so-called social utility, along with an official Instant Messaging application. The improved privacy settings enable users to have much greater control over who in their social network can view specific content. One group of...
- Tags: Facebook, Network, IM, LinkedIn, Lookout Software, Instant Messaging, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- Yahoo embraces the Semantic Web?
- Mike Arrington broke a story over at TechCrunch this morning, suggesting that Yahoo! are about to extend their Open Search Platform by embracing a number of Semantic Web specifications. A post on the Yahoo! Search blog confirms this. Quoting from the Yahoo! blog post; ...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., LinkedIn, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- Lloyd Taylor: LinkedIn's 'scaling guru' tackles the social graph
- Earlier this month I spoke with Lloyd Taylor, vice president of technical operations at LinkedIn and formerly Google's director of global operations and Keynote Systems' vice president of technology and operations. He discusses his past experience building and scaling data centers at Google and how it differs from his new...
- Tags: Google Inc., CIO, Data Center, Network, LinkedIn, Data Centers, Social Networking, Storage, Networking, Hardware, Data Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- Mining the LinkedIn network
- LinkedIn VP of Technical Operations, Lloyd Taylor discusses new ways business professionals will communicate and consume information in the future. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: Network, LinkedIn, Networking, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- Scaling the LinkedIn social graph
- LinkedIn VP of Technical Operations, Lloyd Taylor talks about scaling challenges such as improving the value of user relationships. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: LinkedIn, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- LinkedIn vs. Facebook, MySpace
- LinkedIn VP of Technical Operations, Lloyd Taylor discusses the differences between LinkedIn's professional network and more personalized sites like Facebook and MySpace. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Networking, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- LinkedIn VP of Technical Operations: Lloyd Taylor
- Lloyd Taylor, Vice President of Technical Operations at LinkedIn talks to ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber about facilitating online communications between its 17 million business professionals. He also discusses his past experience building and scaling data centers at Google and how it differs from his new role, managing a...
- Tags: LinkedIn, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- LinkedIn Vice President of Technical Operations: Lloyd Taylor
- Dan Farber: Lloyd, thanks for joining me. Lloyd Taylor: And thanks for inviting me. Dan Farber: Lloyd you have been at LinkedIn since September of this year, what is LinkedIn and what compelled you to go there? Lloyd...
- Tags: Google Inc., Data Center, Theory, Network, LinkedIn, Data Centers, Storage, Social Networking, Networking, Hardware, Data Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- LinkedIn wants to be more than a glorified Rolodex - adds new sticky features
- LinkedIn is commonly referred to as a social networking site aimed at professionals. The problem with that description is that, to put it bluntly, there ain't a lot of socializing going on at LinkedIn. Instead, the site might be best described as a glorified Rolodex in which business contact information...
- Tags: Network, LinkedIn, Networking, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Social networking and the open business revolution
- I am a member of both LinkedIn and Ryze. Every once in a while I get an invitation from some member there to connect. I usually do. I don't obsess over it, I don't even think much about it. It's in thinking about it,...
- Tags: Network, LinkedIn, Revolution, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- LinkedIn revamps interface, opens APIs
- LinkedIn revamps interface, opens APIsMinimize "groupthink" : promote exchange of different viewpoints on the wwwVery clear and concise -- thank you!!Jeremiah Owyang also started an interesting discussion @ http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/12/10/innovation-at-linkedin-from-business-utility-to-platformThe above "minimize groupthink suggestion is "thanks to" Denise Caruso -- who has explicated the [b]risk[/b] of "ivory tower" parochialism very well...
- Tags: LinkedIn, API
- Discussion threads 2007-12-10
- News to know: LinkedIn revamp; Can enterprise software be sexy?; Apple; R.I.P. Marc Orchant
- Notable headlines: Rest in Peace Marc Orchant. Techmeme. I'd like to share with you the two life lessons Marc Orchant taught me. We will all miss Marc. LinkedIn revamps interface, opens API. On Sunday a big debate of enterprise software broke...
- Tags: LinkedIn, Apple Inc., Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- LinkedIn revamps interface, opens APIs
- LinkedIn is launching a beta of its revamp user interface, adding new features and exposing APIs for integrating with other applications and services. The new home page design includes the usual network updates and modules for people and job search and answers. LinkedIn plans to add other modules...
- Tags: BusinessWeek, LinkedIn, API, InApp Developer Program, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-09
- Can LinkedIn CEO's hot air inflate the company's valuation?
- Can LinkedIn CEO's hot air inflate the company's valuation?Why notIt's a Web 2.0 bonanza! Everything must go!Why the hate on every social network?Jesus H. Christ, every day another ZDNet "news" article about how Facebook or LinkedIn sucks. People find them useful and they're rampantly successful; what is the...
- Tags: Investment, LinkedIn, Facebook, hot air, valuation
- Discussion threads 2007-11-28
- Can LinkedIn CEO's hot air inflate the company's valuation?
- LinkedIn CEO Dan Nye told Fortune that it would take a "helluva lot" more than $1 billion to get the company to sell. Rumors have been flying about News Corp. being interested in LinkedIn, but the valuation could be sticky. Why not tell Fortune you're worth more,...
- Tags: Valuation, LinkedIn, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
- What would News Corp. do with LinkedIn?
- Last week, Mike Butcher of TechCrunch UK reported that News Corp. was in talks to buy the professional networking site LinkedIn. As well as claiming a "well-placed" source, Butcher speculates that an acquisition on News Corp.'s part, makes a lot of sense, as social networks are replacing newspaper classified ads...
- Tags: Advertisement, Aspect, Network, LinkedIn, News Corp., Networking, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
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