Many years ago I came back to the UK after a long time on the road to a Thatcherite revolution where the markets had been unleashed and poor little wannabe Commies such as I were yesterday’s news.
It was a nightmare. Mammon ruled OK and the country’s assets were being sold off to investors. What was even worse were that previous friends of mine who couldn’t hold a decent conversation three years before were now running their own businesses. Continue reading
While LinkedIn sits comfortably on its pile of money after this year’s IPO, other companies in the space are challenging its hegemony by targeting markets where LinkedIn is weak.
One such company is Viadeo, sometimes referred to as the ‘French LinkedIn’. It announced at today’s TechCrunch Disrupt in Beijing that it now has 40 million members, and expanding in China after acquiring leading Chinese professional social network Tianji in 2009. Continue reading
Facebook could be confused with the manual that comes with a new mobile/car/robot. There’s so much it can do but most people are so happy that the bloody thing works they never look under the SIM/bonnet/metal testicles.
Believe me, it’s better that way. Over the past 12 months I’ve spent more time with Facebook than is healthy. Moreover, no matter which buttons I press or how much time I spend down there, neither of us quite get off. Continue reading
Sometimes it feels as if LinkedIn has been with us as long as the internet itself but hasn’t evolved at all. Let’s just call it Social Networking 0.0.
I appreciate that it may be much more than an allowance of reasonably dressed job-seekers flapping their apocryphal CVs in front of a reasonably interested audience, but it hasn’t done a thing for me. Perhaps it’s a social network for mingers. Continue reading
Sometimes it feels as if LinkedIn has been with us as long as the internet itself but hasn’t evolved at all. Let’s just call it Social Networking 0.0.
I appreciate that it may be much more than an allowance of reasonably dressed job-seekers flapping their apocryphal CVs in front of a reasonably interested audience, but it hasn’t done a thing for me. Perhaps it’s a social network for mingers. Continue reading