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Encyclopedia > LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site, mainly used for professional networking. As of September 2007, it had more than 14 million registered users, spanning 150 industries and more than 400 economic regions (as classified by the service). A social network service focuses on the building and verifying of online social networks for communities of people who share interests and activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others, and which necessitates the use of software. ...

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Company info

LinkedIn's CEO is Dan Nye, while former CEO Reid Hoffman, previously an Executive Vice President of PayPal, remains as President of Product and Chairman of the Board. LinkedIn is located in Mountain View, California, and funded [1]by Greylock, Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, and the European Founders Fund. LinkedIn reached profitability (positive cash flow) in March 2006.[2] “Chief executive” redirects here. ... Reid Hoffman (born August 5, 1967) is a American entrepreneur and angel investor. ... A vice president is an officer in government or business who is next in rank below a president. ... eBay North First Street satellite office campus (home to PayPal) PayPal is an e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. ... Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. ... Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded by Don Valentine in 1972. ... Bessemer Venture Partners is a private venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, New York, Massachusetts, China, and India. ...


Web service features

The main purpose of the site is to allow registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people they know and trust in business. The people in the list are called Connections. Users can invite anyone (whether a LinkedIn user or not) to become a connection.


This list of connections can then be used in a number of ways:

  • A contact network is built up consisting of their direct connections, each of their connections' connections (called 2nd degree connections) and also the connections of 2nd degree connections (called 3rd degree connections). This can be used, for example, to gain an introduction to someone you wish to know through a mutual, trusted contact.
  • It can then be used to find jobs, people and business opportunities recommended by anyone in your contact network.
  • Employers can list jobs and search for potential candidates.
  • Job seekers can review the profile of hiring managers and discover which of their existing contacts can introduce them.

The "gated-access approach" (where contact with any professional requires either a pre-existing relationship, or the intervention of a contact of theirs) is intended to build trust among the service's users. LinkedIn participates in the EU Safe Harbor Privacy Framework.


The newest (as of January 16, 2007) LinkedIn feature is "LinkedIn Answers" [3]. As the name suggests, the service, similar to Google Answers or Yahoo! Answers, allows LinkedIn users to ask questions for the community to answer. "LinkedIn Answers" is free and the main differences from the two previously mentioned services are that questions are potentially more business-oriented, and the identity of the people asking and answering questions is known. is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... Linkedin Answers is a knowledge market service by Linkedin. ... Google Answers was a knowledge market offered by Google that allowed users to post bounties for well researched answers to their queries. ... Yahoo! Answers is a community-driven knowledge market website launched by Yahoo! on December 13, 2005 that allows users to ask and answer questions posed by other users. ...


Privacy issues

  • Non-members can check whether or not you are a member, but as of August 2007, this can be disabled. [1]
  • As of October 2006, there is no automated way to remove yourself from LinkedIn. The official method is to file a customer support ticket (see "Accessing and Changing Your Account Information" [2]). A possible workaround is to change your profile name to something unrelated to your real name.

Privacy has no definite boundaries and it has different meanings for different people. ... Technical support (also tech support) is a range of services providing assistance with computer hardware, software, or other electronic or mechanical goods. ...

Sites with comparable features

There are several websites that offer online business networking, including ryze, Doostang, XING, Plaxo and, increasingly Facebook. LinkedIn answers is comparable to Yahoo Answers. Various websites such as Monster.com have job search functions. Many websites have reputation systems and online social networking. Ryze . ... The subject of this article may not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ... Xing Technology developed mpeg3 software and streaming media software systems in 19__. ... Plaxo is an online address book service founded by Napster co-founder Sean Parker and two Stanford engineering students, Todd Masonis and Cameron Ring. ... This article is about the social networking website. ... Yahoo! Answers is a community-driven service that allows users to ask and answer questions made by other users. ... Monster. ... A reputation system is a type of collaborative filtering algorithm which attempts to determine ratings for a collection of entities, given a collection of opinions that those entities hold about each other. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...


See also

A social network is a social structure made of nodes (which are generally individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of relations, such as values, visions, idea, financial exchange, friends, kinship, dislike, trade, web links, sexual relations, disease transmission (epidemiology), or airline routes. ... A business network can be defined as a group of people that have some kind of commercial relationship. ... It has been suggested that History of social software be merged into this article or section. ... This is a list of notable social networking websites. ... An Information Routing Group (or IRG) is one of a semi-infinite set of similar interlocking and overlapping groups each IRG containing a group of ( maybe 3 to 200) individuals (IRGists) and each IRG loosely sharing a particular common interest; IRGists exchange information, as a group, a sub group, or...

References

  1. ^ http://linkedinipo.com/?q=node/4
  2. ^ http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=press_releases_030706
  3. ^ “LinkedIn Answers” unlocks the world’s best source of business knowledge: trusted professionals

External links

  • LinkedIn web site
  • The LinkedIn Corporate Blog Describes LinkedIn community roles and activities.
  • Lee Hill's "Living LinkedIn" Blog And Open Invitation Reports day-to-day appearances of LinkedIn in the news and how LinkedIn works in practice.
  • Community for professionals

  Results from FactBites:
 
LinkedIn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (334 words)
LinkedIn is an Internet social network service, used mostly for business connections and with more than 4 million registered users.
LinkedIn participates in the EU Safe Harbor Privacy Framework and is certified to meet the strict privacy guidelines of the European Union.
LinkedIn is located in Palo Alto, California, and is funded by Greylock and Sequoia Capital, the venture capital firms behind Google, Yahoo!, Cisco, and Apple.
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