All Posts Tagged With: "LinkedIn"

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Man Gets Jailtime For Sending Facebook Request

Beware of who you add to your Facebook friends!
Valleywag picked up on the story of a UK man who was given 10 days in jail, after sending his wife a facebook invite, because he had been given a no-contact order after harassing her with text messages and phone calls.

 12Oct2007 | Everton | 8 comments | Continued
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LinkedIn Hit 1m Users In The UK

LinkedIn have just hit 1m users in the UK, which is very impressive for a professional networking service when you consider that the population of the UK is 60m and the whole workforce is just over 3om.
I’ve just received an invite to attend a party in London to celebrate this achievement in an official capacity, [...]

 10Oct2007 | Everton | 5 comments | Continued
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Who Founded Facebook?

There’s been a lot of talk recently about an IPO for the latest internet flavour of the month, Facebook.  The official founders of Facebook are Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskowitz who will make a fortune if Facebook did float or was acquired.
However, there are a number of individuals, including three of [...]

 18Jul2007 | Everton | 8 comments | Continued
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I Love Facebook!

I finally gave in over the weekend and joined Facebook. I know that my regular readers may find this amazing, but the only network I’d joined before Facebook was LinkedIn.  Normally when I get invites to join social networks I just delete them because I don’t want to get sucked in. But, [...]

 12Jun2007 | Everton | 9 comments | Continued
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Can Anyone Send Me A Pingsta Invite?

Pingsta is a new social network that is invitation only, that is solely ofor Internetwork experts. The new Pingsta network sounds like it could be a great place to meet interesting new individuals and to share ideas. If anyone is a member can they send me an invite please.
I’ve finally got around to [...]

 22Apr2007 | Everton | 5 comments | Continued
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Which Social Networks Are You Active In?

Out of all the social networks like myspace, bebo, hi5 etc the only one I’m reasonably active in is LinkedIn, where I’ve just this second made my 400th connection taking my network up to 1.73m people.
I think I’ve made so many LinkedIn connections because I tend to keep my work address book up to date [...]

 22Mar2007 | Everton | 10 comments | Continued
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New O’Reilly & TechCrunch UK Blogger: Imran Ali

After being sceptical in the past of social networking sites, I’m actually starting to find LinkedIn useful. It’s helped me reconnect with old friends who I’d lost touch with, and it’s even lined up a few good job opportunities for me as a result of my profile being available. In fact, I have [...]

 8Nov2006 | Everton | 2 comments | Continued
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How Useful Is LinkedIn?

Over the last couple of weeks the rate at which I receive invites to link up on LinkedIn has increased, partly because lots of my ntl:Telewest colleagues are sending me invites because they are not sure who will be staying and going as part of the merger.
For those of you who don’t know what LinkedIn [...]

 25Apr2006 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
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Networking Sites - How Will They Make Money?

I’m constantly getting requests from friends and business colleagues to update my contact details on services such as LinkedIn, Plaxo, Bebo etc. Although I personally find these services useful I can’t for the life of me see how the site owners are going to make money!
Am I missing something here?
For example, Plaxo now has [...]

 20Mar2005 | Everton | 2 comments | Continued