Semi-random thought

[unixronin]

I got an unsolicited invite to Plaxo a while back from someone who appears to be a headhunter.  Now Plaxo just sent me mail reminding me the invitation is about to expire.

I can't help but think ... whose idea was it to name what's basically a social-networking site something that brings to mind, before anything else, dental hygeine and tooth decay?  And the second association that comes up is an English brand of stuffing mix.

Hello?  Anybody at home down there in Marketing?

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Linked In is the Next Google

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

Plaxo WAS an online address book with some sharing capabilities, and you could make it work with your Outlook e-mail program ONLY. Useful, if you were linked to a bunch of people and changed your information, it flowed into their address books, AND everyone used Outlook. Nice. Except few of my friends use Outlook. OOPS. With No Thunderbird or Outlook Express support, I decided it was too limited and haven't done much with it.
NOW They want to become Better than Linked In. Probably not gonna happen either.
That's ok. Reunion.com, which use to be to help organize school reunions, has gotten on the band wagon. I've gotten TWO Invites to join the Reunion Network. That's not gonna happen either.

Re: Linked In is the Next Google

[databeast.livejournal.com]

Linkedin > Orkut


for one thing, it's not full of Brazilian Paedo's, nor are their blogging, picture or link facilities on it. As far as 'social networking' sites, its the only one that doesnt make me vomit. And the general 'suit' assumption makes everyone behave at a decent level of politeness too.

LinkedIn is really about the most I can deal with in 'social networking' sites. Livejournal gets an exception because its barely once-a-quarter that I get someone adding me here..

Re: Linked In is the Next Google

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I tried Orkut while it was still in beta, and frankly couldn't see the point. It seemed to be trying to do too many things, and not doing any of them particularly well. To the best of my recollection, I don't think you can leave Orkut; but you can most certainly stop using it, and I did.

LinkedIn, well, yeah, I'm there; I couldn't honestly say I use it - my mind just doesn't work that way. I don't get what it's for.

Re: Linked In is the Next Google

[databeast.livejournal.com]

It's basically a glorified resume ;)

I spend a lot of time in the Q&A section answering questions posed by management types about infosec...usually in the most blunt terms possible.