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Network effects.
Is Network effects a company? If so, can you give the url. Googling doesn't help much in this case. EDIT:If you were talking about social network effects, this is embarrassing.
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I also have found the recruiter email to have gotten a lot better recently. As an experiment (as my startup is hiring - I wanted to see what the candidate experience might be like these days), I expanded my LinkedIn profile to trigger as many recruiter-friendly tickyboxes as possible, expecting a deluge of spam. I got about five messages, all fairly well crafted and personalised to some extent. Honestly, I get more s…
> I also ran a fun experiment where I set up another LinkedIn profile nearly identical to my own, changing the name and gender...Boy, does he get a lot of random spam. Alternate hypothesis: bad recruiters looking for software developers filter by gender... To be honest, I've had two emails from recruiters in three years, both highly targeted to specific terms in my profile, and I nearly accepted one of the jobs. Skip…
I want to be in whole control of my public data, that's why getting a domain and posting a blog is maybe more tedious but better at the end.
It's fairly easy to come up with a long list of shady practices that force me to not trust LinkedIn: 1. To start with, they sneaked in the request to access all your email contacts and constantly spam them in your name which can be embarrassing at times to say the least. 2. Their mobile apps do the same with your phone contacts, cleverly hiding the checkmark (in smallest font) to disallow the uploading of contacts. I…
why hasn't anybody disrupted linkedin yet? what would you like to see instead of linkedin? snapchat for business professionals?
Lens.io seems to be a new competitor. https://www.lens.io/
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> The users are what is for sale on this site. Isn't that true of pretty much every advertising driven site? Full disclosure: I used to work at LI.
I haven't been on LinkedIn in a while, but are there ads on it? From my perspective LinkedIn is probably the most obnoxious social media site (in a doesn't-even-try-to-hide-it way).
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Lens.io seems to be a new competitor. https://www.lens.io/
The site took 4 seconds to load because of a 5.2 MB .gif used at the bottom of the page. These guys have a lot to learn.
We do have a way to go in terms of optimising the site, but we are currently only open to a small number of alpha users. I can safely say that by the time we open the floodgates to the general public, these issues will have been addressed.
Thanks for the feedback!