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Don't worry, I'd trust LinkedIn with access to anything. They have a pretty stellar history of being on the up-and-up.
I suspect you're being downvoted because your sarcasm isn't obvious enough. Either that or you're living in a parallel universe where LinkedIn is a completely different company.
I like a lot of the stuff MS is doing these days, but this one really doesn't make sense to me. One has an enterprise vision and the other is "extraprise?" It's a very awkward fit.
Yeah, LI messages aren't as important to most people as plain email, but LI messages are used for a lot of recruiting and B2B sales stuff. Think about it like this: if I compete with Microsoft, why would I want to continue using LI to contact potential customers (or potential employees for that matter) thereby giving MS access to so much important info?
I wonder if all it's going to take to trigger a mass exodus away from LinkedIn is the emergence of a truly viable competitor?
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I suspect you're being downvoted because your sarcasm isn't obvious enough. Either that or you're living in a parallel universe where LinkedIn is a completely different company.
Making a post without explicitly labeling it as sarcasm is always a risky maneuver but I prefer the nuance.
I can't help but suspect this will be the end of LinkedIn. Why would any firm want Microsoft to have control of so much potential competitive intelligence? As well as the ability to potentially interrupt / snoop on critical communications? Yeah, LI messages aren't as important to most people as plain email, but LI messages are used for a lot of recruiting and B2B sales stuff. Think about it like this: if I compete wi…
Microsoft owns my "employee" identity thru office 365. I don't love them owning my "job-searching" identity too. Seems like the most valuable service they have to offer is to corporations. "Want to know how often your employee is updating their resume? Pay us for access." Of course they'll spin it differently, but in short that's the value.
It has happened before.
Even I was shocked how tens of thousands of companies handed over mind blowingly valuable customer data to Facebook. They aggressively promoted their Facebook Page to their customer base: please like us on Facebook!
What did Facebook do? They took that data and sold it to competitors as ad inventory. I never saw a single company owner complain. Companies spent millions of dollars and years of effort building up a customer base, and just handed it right over to Facebook.
To put it in more blunt terms, Facebook stole companies assets through social engineering. I saw friends turn around and build profitable, multi-million dollar businesses through this single data usurpation channel.
Will companies get more savvy about locking down their data? I'm not counting on it.
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Don't worry, I'd trust LinkedIn with access to anything. They have a pretty stellar history of being on the up-and-up.
I suspect you're being downvoted because your sarcasm isn't obvious enough. Either that or you're living in a parallel universe where LinkedIn is a completely different company.
I can't help but suspect this will be the end of LinkedIn. Why would any firm want Microsoft to have control of so much potential competitive intelligence? As well as the ability to potentially interrupt / snoop on critical communications? Yeah, LI messages aren't as important to most people as plain email, but LI messages are used for a lot of recruiting and B2B sales stuff. Think about it like this: if I compete wi…
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