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This article is more informative about why they are upset with LinkedIn: http://www.wired.com/2015/02/linkedin-api/ tl;dr: LinkedIn is pulling a Twitter. I can't say I'm surprised. It's a common pattern: Step 1: plant a nice open garden that attracts lots of people. Step 2: put wall around garden.
LinkedIn screwed me over real good a few weeks back. They sent me an email saying "There are 108 people you might want to connect with", so I click on view all and it shows a giant list of people with checkmarks by their names. Nice. I uncheck all of them, and scroll through checking a few folks who I want to network with (5 people in total). Click next, it takes me to a screen showing the 5 people and the banner cle…
LinkedIn screwed me over real good a few weeks back. They sent me an email saying "There are 108 people you might want to connect with", so I click on view all and it shows a giant list of people with checkmarks by their names. Nice. I uncheck all of them, and scroll through checking a few folks who I want to network with (5 people in total). Click next, it takes me to a screen showing the 5 people and the banner cle…
I think we need more advertisement of this terrible practice -- and or try to get google to aggressively block their access to do this sort of thing from your gmail, as what it is -- essentially a phishing/malware attack.
This article is more informative about why they are upset with LinkedIn: http://www.wired.com/2015/02/linkedin-api/ tl;dr: LinkedIn is pulling a Twitter. I can't say I'm surprised. It's a common pattern: Step 1: plant a nice open garden that attracts lots of people. Step 2: put wall around garden.
Thanks for the tldr; but what does `pulling a Twitter` mean ?
LinkedIn screwed me over real good a few weeks back. They sent me an email saying "There are 108 people you might want to connect with", so I click on view all and it shows a giant list of people with checkmarks by their names. Nice. I uncheck all of them, and scroll through checking a few folks who I want to network with (5 people in total). Click next, it takes me to a screen showing the 5 people and the banner cle…
I honestly don't know what people are thinking while enabling that.
No, Seriously?
LinkedIn, like Twitter, is limiting API usage to specific use cases that dovetail with LinkedIn's own apps, instead of competing with them. The restrictions were imposed yesterday. The authors of this manifesto think that's a bad thing, but they don't give me, the reader, any more information. Why is it a bad thing? What cool stuff am I missing by using LinkedIn and its restrictive API? Why should I put effort into a…
This. Making potentially baseless claims and not explaining their impact beyond "they're bad!" is the kind of rhetoric a middle schooler uses before he or she learns to write proper persuasive prose. While I agree that data should be as freely available as possible--so long as the person to whom the data belongs approves--I really can't get on board with this histrionic garbage. Make an assertion. Back it up with evi…
LinkedIn screwed me over real good a few weeks back. They sent me an email saying "There are 108 people you might want to connect with", so I click on view all and it shows a giant list of people with checkmarks by their names. Nice. I uncheck all of them, and scroll through checking a few folks who I want to network with (5 people in total). Click next, it takes me to a screen showing the 5 people and the banner cle…
Especially when that someone already has a bad reputation like linkedin has.
Dear programmers, if you are using linkedin you are doing it wrong. Use github, careers.stackoverflow, a plain html resume page, the ladders, and basically anything else that is not linkedin to showcase your skillset.
I'm sorry, but it's just not about skills but who one knows and Linkedin is a really handy rolodex.
Rather than write stuff to Github, a much better advice to build career is to do a good job at ones current gig and co-operate and respect your colleagues. Those are the references one needs to get a job. Not a random github account with yet another blog engine. Unless the repo is really astoundingly good and usefull and called 'Clojure' or in that caliber.
Just like in startup scene, small time players like individual engineers want to target a niche. The easiest niche to reach are ones colleagues. And I don't mean this in a sociopathic sense,just that be professional, be good at what you do, don't be a dick and remember the people you work with will be around for a long time to come.
LinkedIn screwed me over real good a few weeks back. They sent me an email saying "There are 108 people you might want to connect with", so I click on view all and it shows a giant list of people with checkmarks by their names. Nice. I uncheck all of them, and scroll through checking a few folks who I want to network with (5 people in total). Click next, it takes me to a screen showing the 5 people and the banner cle…
> revoked LinkedIn's access to my gmail account I honestly don't know what people are thinking while enabling that . No, Seriously?