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Like Twitter and other Tech 'Giants', this is insane. These corporations assume they can do it all on their own, as they have billions of dollars and great eng

by dataker 11y ago

Like Twitter and other Tech 'Giants', this is insane. These corporations assume they can do it all on their own, as they have billions of dollars and great engineers. Still, it's quite useless: greed is what really drives true innovation. Good luck Linkedin

a3n 11y ago
I suspect these changes are prompted by lawyers and/or investors, more than engineering.
- mildbow 11y ago
  Huh. Is there some specific reason you think so? If something like this is driven by lawyers, that's ridiculous: they advise, not prescribe.They are tools, not the brain manipulating the tool. Investors .. maybe. But, why would investors be so myopic? Or rather, do such myopic investors have enough control to push this? To me it sounds like linkedin leadership saw how much they were making from recruitment and decided to open up the sales side of the business too. And, instead of competing for sales data enrichment, they decided to make it a one-player game. Whatever. Time to buy linkedin stock, and set a reminder to sell in 1-2 years.
dorfsmay 11y ago
I can see Twitter, they are struggling trying to monetize themselves, and I believe they still aren't making a profit. LinkedIn on the other hand, I'm surprised, I thought they made most of their earnings by selling greater access to recruiters. I'm wondering what they are trying to capture here, that they think they'll be able to make revenue from.
- cmdrfred 11y ago
  I can see Twitter too, they never make any money as far I as I can tell.
  - demachina 11y ago
    Yea but Twitter's clients also suck and their management and engineering team seem completely incapable of developing interesting, innovative or easy to use clients. Their one size fits all clients also don’t accomodate power users, many of whom are the people who generate a lot of the interesting streams that draw users. This should be a golden age of software but its increasingly resembling a wasteland. Most software is being herded in to app stores which Apple and Google completely control and dominate, and which has reached a saturation level of app developers. Interesting companies keep putting out awesome API’s, lure in suckers . . er . . developers, only to crush them after the developer has sunk a bunch of time and and money developing for them and about the time the company has developed enough momementum that they don’t need third party developers unless they are fully monetized partners. And then of course there are the patent trolls.

by dataker 11y ago

a3n 11y ago

I suspect these changes are prompted by lawyers and/or investors, more than engineering.

mildbow 11y ago
Huh. Is there some specific reason you think so? If something like this is driven by lawyers, that's ridiculous: they advise, not prescribe.They are tools, not the brain manipulating the tool. Investors .. maybe. But, why would investors be so myopic? Or rather, do such myopic investors have enough control to push this? To me it sounds like linkedin leadership saw how much they were making from recruitment and decided to open up the sales side of the business too. And, instead of competing for sales data enrichment, they decided to make it a one-player game. Whatever. Time to buy linkedin stock, and set a reminder to sell in 1-2 years.

dorfsmay 11y ago

I can see Twitter, they are struggling trying to monetize themselves, and I believe they still aren't making a profit. LinkedIn on the other hand, I'm surprised, I thought they made most of their earnings by selling greater access to recruiters. I'm wondering what they are trying to capture here, that they think they'll be able to make revenue from.

cmdrfred 11y ago
I can see Twitter too, they never make any money as far I as I can tell.
- demachina 11y ago
  Yea but Twitter's clients also suck and their management and engineering team seem completely incapable of developing interesting, innovative or easy to use clients. Their one size fits all clients also don’t accomodate power users, many of whom are the people who generate a lot of the interesting streams that draw users. This should be a golden age of software but its increasingly resembling a wasteland. Most software is being herded in to app stores which Apple and Google completely control and dominate, and which has reached a saturation level of app developers. Interesting companies keep putting out awesome API’s, lure in suckers . . er . . developers, only to crush them after the developer has sunk a bunch of time and and money developing for them and about the time the company has developed enough momementum that they don’t need third party developers unless they are fully monetized partners. And then of course there are the patent trolls.