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ersun | press » Cember.net bu özelliği LinkedIn’den önce uyguladı ama… — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:34:02 +0000

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By: bob

bob — Thu, 17 May 2007 01:22:09 +0000

a fart stinks

By: Peter Cunningham

Peter Cunningham — Mon, 14 May 2007 12:53:33 +0000

Quote : ‘It’s something Xing (a LinkedIn competitor, used to be Open Business Connections or something like that) had from day 1.’

I don’t know who invented it but it has been a standard part of Viadeo (www.viadeo.com) for a long time. Our principle is that you need to let people see you looked at their profile to see whose been looking at yours - that’s simple fairness. You can of course hide your full name - eg I could be Peter C.

There seems to be serial copying in this business

That ought to tell something to the thousands of aspirants hoping to start the ‘new business network online’ on the back of a few technological gimmics.

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 12 May 2007 23:21:19 +0000

Neat! I wonder if this will provide any visual differences if viewed by someone in your network vs. outside your network?

By: Mr. E.

Mr. E. — Sat, 12 May 2007 16:50:23 +0000

Pretty funny the guy from xing claiming he invented this. This is not a new concept (business networking site ryze had this six years ago). Kudos for linkedin for not revealing the exact name without specific permission and for not revealing personal information even if people pay. They obviously think about this much more carefully than other sites.

By: Chris Byrne

Chris Byrne — Fri, 11 May 2007 15:34:09 +0000

Good to see Linkedin doing this finally.

It’s been on XING (previously OpenBC) for some time. However they have engineered it to encourage people to upgrade to the Pro account and is not enabled on all accounts (steals valuable ad space!)

It’s fun for a while but soon you will want to turn it off when people who try and sell you things keep visiting you so that you see their visit data.

By: Jeremy Wright

Jeremy Wright — Fri, 11 May 2007 15:33:16 +0000

I like it. It’ll be more useful once more folk turn on their name. It’s just a great way to choose to reach out or, worst case, to see the kinds of people who stumble upon your profile.

By: Anand

Anand — Fri, 11 May 2007 15:00:08 +0000

@ ##2

No, that is not required. LinkedIn offers you 3 options

Show my name and headline
Only show my anonymous profile characteristics, such as industry and title
Don’t show users that I’ve viewed their profile

So, you may choose the 3rd option…

By: Ron K Jeffries

Ron K Jeffries — Fri, 11 May 2007 14:51:58 +0000

Thanks for the tip. I have an ongoing love/hate relationship with LinkedIn.

Right now I’m back to liking it. But They have not yet convinced me to send them money, but I’m tempted…

By: meneame.net

meneame.net — Fri, 11 May 2007 14:27:40 +0000

LinkedIn: entérate de quién lee tu perfil…

La nueva funcionalidad, llamada “Who’s Viewed My Profile” ha sido introducida esta semana y nos permite saber quiénes has sido las últimas 20 personas en ver nuestro perfil….

By: pallet jack

pallet jack — Fri, 11 May 2007 14:24:54 +0000

hmm - Makes me want to get a linkedin account -

So that is it’s utility; also imagine this on myspace …. It’ll be there soon

By: Jimmy Daniels

Jimmy Daniels — Fri, 11 May 2007 14:15:12 +0000

Well, I have been all over the site and can’t find it, even on Michael’s profile, could they have pulled it already?

By: David Dalka - Creating Revenue and Retention - Chicago GSB MBA

David Dalka - Creating Revenue and Retention - Chicago GSB MBA — Fri, 11 May 2007 13:53:22 +0000

Not Really Seeing Who Is Reading Your LinkedIn Profile…

The links do not not take you to the actual person! Pretty lame.
In other words, it’s no more useful than a count of the profile views. If you are going to do something, why show it in such a half baked way?
……

By: Allen Stern

Allen Stern — Fri, 11 May 2007 11:24:16 +0000

Alright Mike notes that you only see this if someone has viewed your profile - so here is mine, http://www.linkedin.com/in/allenstern

Please view it so I can see this thing.

What’s funny is that this is a horrible development practice. If no one has viewed it, the box should say that rather than leaving the box off completely.

By: Michael Wolff

Michael Wolff — Fri, 11 May 2007 10:56:59 +0000

next to useless. you have to be a paying memmber to view more than five, and in any case, not being able to see who it was doesn’t help. Ecademy’s service that provides an alert everytime someone visits your profile with a link to their profile is really useful. That’s what LinkedIn should be offering.

By: Lars

Lars — Fri, 11 May 2007 10:47:06 +0000

Once more the Linkedin-Team copyied functionalities of XING. After the public profiles, integration of external Links its now “who visited me”.

By: Bryce

Bryce — Fri, 11 May 2007 10:32:48 +0000

big brother, anyone?

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Webrazzi - Yeni nesil web girişimlerine yakın takip — Fri, 11 May 2007 08:09:29 +0000

Cember.net bu özelliği LinkedIn’den önce uyguladı ama……

Tehcrunch‘daki bir yazıda LinkedIn‘in yeni özelliğini okuyunca aklıma söz konusu özelliğin zaten Cember.net‘te uzun süredir olduğu geldi. Ama bir farkla…
Cember.net‘i bilmeyen var mıdır bilemiyorum ama servis i….

By: Dennis Bjørn Petersen

Dennis Bjørn Petersen — Fri, 11 May 2007 07:12:04 +0000

Nice feature, but curse them for trying to make money

By: Jope

Jope — Fri, 11 May 2007 06:44:57 +0000

It’s something Xing (a LinkedIn competitor, used to be Open Business Connections or something like that) had from day 1.

It’s nice to see LinkedIn is rolling out something useful, unlike the ‘ask your network’ thing. Anyone know how to turn that off…?

By: kay

kay — Fri, 11 May 2007 06:01:05 +0000

It’s been rolled out to everyone, however, if no one has viewed your profile in the last week then the feature won’t appear on your homepage. In our next version, you’ll be able to see the number of times your profile has appeared in search results (even if it wasn’t clicked on).

By: sf

sf — Fri, 11 May 2007 06:01:00 +0000

Why would anyone want to let people know s/he is spying at their profiles?! This is just a stupid feature that most people would like to turn off.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 11 May 2007 05:40:16 +0000

This is a very good idea by linkedin. My partner actually suggested we offer similar a while ago for our site, and we started collecting the data, but haven’t offered it publicly yet.

Would people want to “opt out” of such a feature, eg, if they were looking up competitor’s for example…they might want that to stay private.

By: lux

lux — Fri, 11 May 2007 05:38:29 +0000

I was able to find the feature, but it was in the right column on my user homepage, not my profile page.

Free users only get to see details on the last 5 people who have viewed your profile. To see more, you must upgrade.