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LinkedIn to Buy Online Education Site Lynda.com for $1.5B

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Re: LinkedIn to Buy Online Education Site Lynda.com for $1.5B

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Post by richerlariviere »

Someone1234 wrote: post #18

This, to me, is terrible news. I am a big fan of Lynda.com. They've always had a great library (both for tech' stuff but are also one of few sites that offer non-tech video training (business courses, photography, etc) and their prices were always very reasonable. LinkedIn can only make the site worse as far as I am concerned, and I already avoid LinkedIn due to the fact that they've essentially become spammers who w…

Lynda will miss us all. I deleted my LinkedIn account because it's not useful for computer science fields (I think). I didn't want spam anymore. I won't continue for long with them.

Re: LinkedIn to Buy Online Education Site Lynda.com for $1.5B

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Post by bdcravens »

blub wrote: post #50
Someone1234 wrote: post #18

This, to me, is terrible news. I am a big fan of Lynda.com. They've always had a great library (both for tech' stuff but are also one of few sites that offer non-tech video training (business courses, photography, etc) and their prices were always very reasonable. LinkedIn can only make the site worse as far as I am concerned, and I already avoid LinkedIn due to the fact that they've essentially become spammers who w…

Well, there's always Safari. They also have videos and stuff now, although I prefer the cheaper, book-only subscription.

Safari is good, but wouldn't something like Pluralsight be closer to Lynda?

Re: LinkedIn to Buy Online Education Site Lynda.com for $1.5B

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Post by circa »

richerlariviere wrote: post #61
Someone1234 wrote: post #18

This, to me, is terrible news. I am a big fan of Lynda.com. They've always had a great library (both for tech' stuff but are also one of few sites that offer non-tech video training (business courses, photography, etc) and their prices were always very reasonable. LinkedIn can only make the site worse as far as I am concerned, and I already avoid LinkedIn due to the fact that they've essentially become spammers who w…

Lynda will miss us all. I deleted my LinkedIn account because it's not useful for computer science fields (I think). I didn't want spam anymore. I won't continue for long with them.

I completely agree. I may delete mine as well. There is so much spam lately!

Re: LinkedIn to Buy Online Education Site Lynda.com for $1.5B

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Post by bdcravens »

nly wrote: post #26
jasode wrote: post #16

As an outsider looking in, LinkedIn's purchase of Lynda.com looks like an odd duck in comparison to their previous acquisitions[1]. As far as I can tell, the Lynda.com brand name isn't that well known outside of tech circles. (Virtually all of their courses are Adobe, Microsoft Office, and web development, etc) I'm guessing those computer courses are relevant to less than 5% of LinkedIn's user base. It was very recen…

How can their technology possibly be worth $1.5B?

This valuation isn't that uncommon these days, at least Lynda had revenue.

Interesting, though, considering CodeSchool went for only $36M.

Re: LinkedIn to Buy Online Education Site Lynda.com for $1.5B

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Post by chx »

ForHackernews wrote: post #41
jkestner wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does MCSE still pull weight? Are there newer certifications that matter now? What fields do you think will benefit from this certification? In design (one of Lynda's pillars), half of hireability is portfolio. I suppose in production roles, you'd want to know you're hiring technically proficient people, but that too you can mostly tell from the work. Perhaps this works as well, or better, from the angle of "People wh…

I had always heard that MCSE was considered a joke. I've heard positive things about RHCE and some of the Cisco networking certs, but I haven't been around that world for several years now.

"Some of the Cisco networking certs" -- well, if you ever make it to CCIE you will never have to worry about having a job.

Re: LinkedIn to Buy Online Education Site Lynda.com for $1.5B

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Post by fillskills »

This is a very bad day for me. I was working on the integration of skills and education at fillskills.com. Serves me well since I gave up on it because of various reasons. Mostly because I was afraid of what people would say when I launched.

This is great for education in general though. Imagine finding the skills to you need to build your career and then the exact education to build it with.

Re: LinkedIn to Buy Online Education Site Lynda.com for $1.5B

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Post by throwaway7767 »

richerlariviere wrote: post #61
Someone1234 wrote: post #18

This, to me, is terrible news. I am a big fan of Lynda.com. They've always had a great library (both for tech' stuff but are also one of few sites that offer non-tech video training (business courses, photography, etc) and their prices were always very reasonable. LinkedIn can only make the site worse as far as I am concerned, and I already avoid LinkedIn due to the fact that they've essentially become spammers who w…

Lynda will miss us all. I deleted my LinkedIn account because it's not useful for computer science fields (I think). I didn't want spam anymore. I won't continue for long with them.

> I deleted my LinkedIn account because it's not useful for computer science fields (I think). I didn't want spam anymore.

I've never had a LinkedIn account, it has not stopped them spamming me regularly.

They seem to harvest contact details from people who install their apps, and then "invite" all those people. They then proceed to send dozens of reminders hoping the recipient will cave in to make it stop.

LinkedIn is a company I would like to see burned to the ground. They are parasites with no redeeming qualities and do not provide any value.

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