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My 2 cents... It's an underutilized resource. They have career data for the highest value people in the world. Yet their technology and interface are woefull

My 2 cents... It's an underutilized resource. They have career data for the highest value people in the world. Yet their technology and interface are woefully dated. The mobile search is awful, and it should be a tool that everyone uses before every meeting. The "You may know X" ability to find new contacts goes down dramatically. It would be beaten by a heuristic that just checks people who work at your current or prior company in the same city. I do think there's room for a turnaround.

ryandrake 10y ago
The thing that most turns me off from LinkedIn is that it leaks your browsing information to the users you are browsing, through their "who viewed my profile" feature. If I want to just brush up on a contact's background before a meeting without announcing to him that I'm stalking him, I need to log out and re-browse. Major pain in the butt.
- bfstein 10y ago
  You can turn that off. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141009022529-27827108-how-to-view-other-people-s-profiles-anonymously https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141009022529-27827108-how-t...
  - rhizome 10y ago
    That they create a blog post for that rather than easily discovered UI elements (hover?!), says a lot about LinkedIn as a company.
    - ghaff 10y ago
      It's pretty easy to discover--under privacy in your profile. But, yes, the fact that a number of these types of settings are opt-out rather than opt-in is a pretty dark pattern.
    - ryandrake 10y ago
      Wow, never realized that! This is something that you should have to opt-in to, not opt-out.