Archive for April, 2007
The LinkedIn blog April 27th, 2007
LinkedIn, the popular business networking site, now has a blog:
LinkedIn was started with the goal of helping you manage your professional relationships better, and today we’re launching our corporate blog to not only help you leverage LinkedIn more effectively but also to provide you a sounding board for all things LinkedIn. So, if you’re looking for a singular information source on LinkedIn with regular updates on upcoming product features, tips-and-tricks, and events or if you’d just like to hear about all the fun stuff associated with working at LinkedIn, you have reached the right place.
We have watched the corporate blogosphere evolve into an ecosystem populated with real voices from among a broad range of companies; the LinkedIn blog is another step in that direction. Stay tuned for exciting news we have to share with you on topics ranging from new feature announcements to milestones we’ve reached.
I’m Mario Sundar, the Community guy at LinkedIn and your blog guide. We consider your feedback an integral part of this conversation, so feel free to share your two cents on how we could make this blog more useful and informative to you.
I generally find these official blogs to be really useful keeping tabs on what is going on behind the scenes and what the developers themselves think about a variety of related topics. The official/developer blogs I enjoy most are the ones which are updated fairly often and in which the people behind the scenes share their thoughts on what is happening in the industry as well as in their own company. It can be really interesting hearing those perspectives because they sometimes contain insights into why certain things work the way they do on the sites.
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linkedin, linkedin blog, developer blogs
Posted in Blogs and blogging, Useful stuff | Comments (Comments)
Draw a snack from an ATM April 27th, 2007
There are some things you just don’t expect to find in an ATM:
(Source: Tasty Blog Snack)
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tasty blog snack, justine ezarik, atm snack
Posted in Food and Drink, Humour, Web/Tech | Comments (Comments)
Hollard’s call centre that doesn’t really handle calls April 26th, 2007
My wife has a fascinating and highly entertaining story about her experiences with Hollard after I was involved in an accident in her car recently. I don’t want to steal her thunder (it is a really entertaining story) but this is the highlight for me:
“Its a call centre and as such its very difficult to get hold of a claim agent, but I will send him a message”
In case you are wondering, this is more or less what the call centre agent told my wife after being on hold for a long time. Basically, the people who are supposed to take calls through the call centre are really busy and are not actually taking calls. Instead some low level flunkies are answering the phone and purporting to take some sort of message which may or may not be forwarded to the person concerned. Maybe.
WTF?
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hollard, crap service, call centre, anti-call centre
Posted in Don't be evil, Marketing, Telecoms | Comments (Comments)
Best lip dub ever April 26th, 2007
This is probably one of the best I have ever seen:
Lip Dub - Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger on Vimeo
(Source: Tasty Blog Snack)
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justine ezarik, lip dubbing, vimeo, music, tasty blog snack
Posted in Cool stuff, Music, Web/Tech | Comments (Comments)
Revver: a cool alternative to YouTube and others? April 26th, 2007
I was chatting to Heather the other day about putting up the video from the recent visits by Larry Lessig and Jimmy Wales and she mentioned using Revver as a platform as an alternative to YouTube (due to duration issues) and Google Video (Zoopy also came up as an option!) so I decided to head over to Revver and try it out and I found this:
Do you use Revver? What do you think of Revver in the context of other video sharing sites around?
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revver, video sharing, youtube, google video, zoopy
Posted in Cool stuff, People, Web/Tech | Comments (Comments)
