LinkedIn shuts down Cubeduel, the viral co-worker rating service
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Re: LinkedIn shuts down Cubeduel, the viral co-worker rating service
#2They have a really great attitude, even when not knowing if it is just a limit or an actual ban.
Re: LinkedIn shuts down Cubeduel, the viral co-worker rating service
#3I'm surprised to see that it might just be an API issue. I have to think that many of LinkedIn's users don't like being rated, and having those ratings be made available without their users' opt-in. For a service like LinkedIn, dealing with people's professional reputations (and potential job prospects), this seems like it might have crossed the line in some users' minds.
All of that aside, it is a really interesting idea, although I do have concerns that Cubeduel is getting a lot of really personal (and valuable) info from this. As a project, it's very intriguing nonetheless.
Re: LinkedIn shuts down Cubeduel, the viral co-worker rating service
#4were they trying to emulate zuckerburg's facemash?
Re: LinkedIn shuts down Cubeduel, the viral co-worker rating service
#5Tony Wright doesn't know it, or maybe he does but he is like the velvet corporate fascist. I thought RescueTime was sort of inside joke, a skinner box of frog-in-the-frying-pan to get the clued people out of the corporate world. A digital Eye of Sauron punch clock.
As soon as I saw RescueTime I knew their market would contract and that they would be forced to be a "tool of the man" which they have now become.
CubeDuel was an effort to game the system and extract stack rankings directly out from under LinkedIn's nose. They aren't that stupid.
Who wouldn't want everyone on LinkedIn stack ranked? What better way than to make a game out of it. It is a hack on the level of "Top Coder" maybe better.
See also
http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/ "Human Computation" http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8246463980976635143...
Re: LinkedIn shuts down Cubeduel, the viral co-worker rating service
#6Tony Wright doesn't know it, or maybe he does but he is like the velvet corporate fascist. I thought RescueTime was sort of inside joke, a skinner box of frog-in-the-frying-pan to get the clued people out of the corporate world. A digital Eye of Sauron punch clock.
As soon as I saw RescueTime I knew their market would contract and that they would be forced to be a "tool of the man" which they have now become.
CubeDuel was an effort to game the system and extract stack rankings directly out from under LinkedIn's nose. They aren't that stupid.
Who wouldn't want everyone on LinkedIn stack ranked? What better way than to make a game out of it. It is a hack on the level of "Top Coder" maybe better.
See also
http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/ "Human Computation" http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8246463980976635143...
Re: LinkedIn shuts down Cubeduel, the viral co-worker rating service
#7I wrote a co-worker complaint system for fun once (at the request of my co-workers), and I was really worried it was going to go downhill fast. Surprisingly, they stopped using it before that happened.
Basically, you could complain (publicly!) about any co-worker who had registered on the system, and assign them a number of points. The person with the highest points at the end of the month had to put a trophy on their desk for a month.
That Cubeduel doesn't blow up also surprises me. I think the team has to already be really close to survive that kind of thing, and cubeduel sounds like even less fun than my system.
Re: LinkedIn shuts down Cubeduel, the viral co-worker rating service
#8LinkedIn is pretty stingy about their ToS. You even agree to a on-site code audit if they feel your app is in violation (Section 1.8).
I haven't used Cubeduel, but I wonder if they're displaying user info in violation of: "Data gathered from one user's LinkedIn account/network may not be exposed to another user"
Given the huge traffic, not surprised if they're just throttled though.
Re: LinkedIn shuts down Cubeduel, the viral co-worker rating service
#9Adam (I have since learned) had seen the limits and the LinkedIn folks actually raised them for us before we launched... But I don't think ANY of us thought that we'd hit the higher limit.
But don't judge us too harshly! :-) Remember, this started as a side-project... And certainly don't judge LinkedIn. Other than not being instantly responsive on a Friday afternoon (which I think wouldn't be a fair expectation), they've been super friendly and pretty accommodating.
Re: LinkedIn shuts down Cubeduel, the viral co-worker rating service
#10WTF? This was awesome!
LinkedIn, please allow Cubeduel to use your API. This is the most fun I've EVER had with my data (that you happen to keep safe for me).