Month: June 2007
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Breaking bread with Steve Jobs at Lunch
Or should I say, breaking bread while at lunch… with Steve Jobs at the next table. For those of you who’re looking for something related to marketing or technology, you may want to skip this post and check out my next one on social networking. Well, today as I was having lunch with a good…
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Google Gadgets vs. Facebook Apps (Updated w/ images)
LinkedIn won one of five search awards at the Searchnomics conference earlier today where I went to accept it on behalf of our product/engineering and development teams, who make the social search magic work for over 11 million LinkedIn users (I work as Community Evangelist at LinkedIn). Todd Watson (IBM) and Jeremiah Owyang (Podtech) I…
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Twitter meets Facebook in Pownce?
Kevin Rose of Digg fame is out with an interesting side project. Last week I wrote about how Facebook is probably a walled tumblelog, given its ability to mash your social interests ranging from movies to whatever into one very useful mini-feed. Pownce is an interesting concept, which was announced on Kevin Rose’s tumblelog today:…
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Opening the LinkedIn kimono – API Style
Well, I don’t think a lot of readers may have noticed my recent comment on a Jeremiah post that we, at LinkedIn, were seriously evaluating APIs, “the technical details which enable programmers to write applications which would interface seamlessly” with our site. Last week, Reid Hoffman (one of our co-founders) mentioned to Dan Farber (ZdNet)…
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Is Facebook a walled tumblelog?
Quickest update (as of 6/29/007): Wow, this discussion just keeps going on and on… Earlier today, Steve Rubel thinks that Facebook is a walled garden and here’s a snippet: That leads us to social networks and, in particular, Facebook. (I should preface this by adding that Edelman represents MySpace.) Despite the age of openness we…
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Two Guys and a Gal from the Community
* Jake – the Community Guy As many of you probably know, I’ve been on the American Marketing Association’s (AMA) board for the past year or so. Recently, Jake McKee had a couple of posts where he talks about his experience joining the AMA as well as his more recent experience dealing with the local…
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June 11th event on LinkedIn Best Practices (SD Forum)
One of my major goals as Community Evangelist at LinkedIn is to find opportunities to interact with our users from across different categories: startups to consultants so that I can gauge their LinkedIn experience. Now that task has become all the more exciting given LinkedIn’s recent growth; we currently have over 11 million users at…
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Facebook Polls | Market Research meets Social Networks?
Being a close observer of the emerging social networking phenomenon (Disclosure: I work at LinkedIn), I’m always intrigued by its impact on marketing as a whole. Just yesterday, when I logged onto my Facebook account (more on that later) I was greeted by a market research poll on my mini-feed, which asked me which Tech…
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