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Re: LinkedIn: One company that shouldn’t root for the bailout?

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Re: LinkedIn: One company that shouldn’t root for the bailout?

Steven Tylock — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:21:28 -0000

Thanks for the article.

I came to the information through the Guardian, but my point is that it is interesting to see that LinkedIn can tell us these things. How'd you like to target your advertising with that accuracy;-)

More in my post here: http://www.linkedinpersonal...

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Re: LinkedIn: One company that shouldn’t root for the bailout?

Online Recruitment — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:26:21 -0000

Interesting article, thanks for that Jay!

On your note - Certainly have to agree with you about the answers having a number of vacancies on there and bogus questions - I have been advised to post vacancies on the group discussions - anyone think that this is inappropriate?

Cheers
Lis

Re: LinkedIn: One company that shouldn’t root for the bailout?

Anthony Ha — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:52:11 -0000

Jay, I don't recall seeing anything here or elsewhere about the group discussion functionality, but I'll talk to some of the other VB folks to doublecheck. Thanks!

Re: LinkedIn: One company that shouldn’t root for the bailout?

Jay Cuthrell — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:56:40 -0000

It appeared to be limited to the SSL handoff (https) used for authentication on events such as InMail, profile edits, etc... the standard web properties (http) were intermittent.

I still think their Answers service is not being actively policed. Some of the "questions" are just painfully bad or just plain incoherent.

I've also noticed an increase in new users attempting to subvert the paid job listings by advertising listings within Answers. Notably, those are dealt with much faster than the bogus questions.

Have any of you guys at VB covered any successes with the group discussion functionality delivered a few weeks ago?

Re: LinkedIn: One company that shouldn’t root for the bailout?

Anthony Ha — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:25:27 -0000

Sorry if I'm being dense, just not totally clear what point you're trying to make. That there are plenty of unfilled listings that you can see on any site?

Re: LinkedIn: One company that shouldn’t root for the bailout?

Anthony Ha — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:23:24 -0000

Yeah, other VentureBeat writers noticed that too. Weird.

Re: LinkedIn: One company that shouldn’t root for the bailout?

Mark Olson — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:32:21 -0000

And LinkedIn.com was down for at least 15-30 minutes this afternoon.

Re: LinkedIn: One company that shouldn’t root for the bailout?

Richard kennedy — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:02:08 -0000

There are thousands of jobs posted on job sites -

http://www.indeed.com (aggregated listings)
http://www.simplyhired.com (aggregated listings)
http://www.realmatch.com (matches you to the jobs)

I see 100K, 150K and 200K jobs

Re: LinkedIn: One company that shouldn’t root for the bailout?

HappyHarry — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:26:29 -0000

well isnt that wonderful. I think Life Alert has a page also on there.