Re: [Israel.pm] off-topic: linkedin connections

2004-11-17 Thread Eli Marmor
Danny Lieberman (Barak) wrote: Gabor , Eli, Evgeny - Just to clarify: as I wrote, I have no opinion about LinkedIn, and have difficulties to decide if it's positive or negative, so I just follow the rest of the people... (holech aharei ha'eder) I'm not usually interfere in a mail thread when

Re: [Israel.pm] off-topic: linkedin connections

2004-11-17 Thread Lior Kesos
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Perl in Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 12:53 AM Subject: Re: [Israel.pm] off-topic: linkedin connections As I somehow ;) got mixed in this, let me answer on both lists. marketing-glasses: on I think having

Re: [Israel.pm] off-topic: linkedin connections

2004-11-17 Thread Evgeny Gesin
Gabor , Eli, Evgeny - LinkedIn is a marketing and sales tool based on a notion from percolation theory ( original reasearch was done at Huji and the Technion on percolation models for marketing new products) that once the amount of local connectivity gets to a certain level - electricity

Fwd: [Israel.pm] off-topic: linkedin connections

2004-11-17 Thread Lior Kesos
-- Forwarded message -- From: Lior Kesos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:21:43 +0200 Subject: Re: [Israel.pm] off-topic: linkedin connections To: Evgeny Gesin [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 02:57:55 -0800 (PST), Evgeny Gesin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As owner

Re: [Israel.pm] off-topic: linkedin connections

2004-11-17 Thread Shlomo Yona
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Oron Peled wrote: I recently got an invitation from someone I know and silently dropped it. The value proposition of this kind of site looks very skewed to me. I think it is useful as I see people I like to make contact with and then I see who are the people I know that are in

Re: [Israel.pm] off-topic: linkedin connections

2004-11-16 Thread Oron Peled
[cross posting to linux-il] On Tuesday 16 November 2004 16:22, Shlomo Yona wrote: Sorry for the (semi) off-topic message. Gabor convinced me to join https://www.linkedin.com some time ago, and it seems useful for contacting people. I recently got an invitation from someone I know and

Re: [Israel.pm] off-topic: linkedin connections

2004-11-16 Thread Evgeny Gesin
LinkedIn better attracts executives. Try a search and see that high-level managers have much higher number of connections than workers. LinkedIn is for connections, not for improving skills. Evgeny Gesin http://www.alltelescopes.com http://www.javadesk.com --- Oron Peled [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Israel.pm] off-topic: linkedin connections

2004-11-16 Thread Gabor Szabo
As I somehow ;) got mixed in this, let me answer on both lists. marketing-glasses: on I think having a distributed model for the same thing LinkedIn does *would* be much better but LinkedIn currently has a few features that the social network we have now, (the one Oron described) does not

Re: [Israel.pm] off-topic: linkedin connections

2004-11-16 Thread Eli Marmor
Gabor Szabo wrote: Interestingly another member of linux-il told me this is spam when I invited him to join (which might be indeed the case :) and then a few weeks later I got an invitation from him. I think it was me (though IIRC I just accepted the already existing invitation). I must say

Re: [Israel.pm] off-topic: linkedin connections

2004-11-16 Thread Danny Lieberman \(Barak\)
in Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 12:53 AM Subject: Re: [Israel.pm] off-topic: linkedin connections As I somehow ;) got mixed in this, let me answer on both lists. marketing-glasses: on I think having a distributed model for the same thing