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linkedin groups

Imagine my surprise to receive a mail from Linkedin saying that the Groups function will no longer be abusable, and members will only be able to have a max of 50 Groups on their profile from now on. This will limit the ability to source from specific tech groups who have unfortunately been over-run by overzealous recruiters for some time now. Real people with real tech skills looking to join a real Group have been turned off by being contacted about jobs from having their details associated with a Group, despite having a profile indicating they are not on the prowl. I run my own group on Linkedin and get multiple requests from dozens of individuals who have no visible connection with the subject of the Group, they simply want another badge for their profile. People with this type of ambition ruin it for the rest of us, and now LI have taken some action.

it's been quite some time since I posted last, I've been really busy working with some start-up technical companies, helping them build their technical teams to be based out of Ireland. There has been a lot of media attention recently regarding the economy and jobs. I read an article recently that stated that only 7% of Irish private sector companies are hiring at the moment. I find this very hard to believe as I have seen nothing but growth but then again I am working with mostly high-tech so it's not as balanced as the findings of the article.

I came across some interesting articles on technical competency interviewing methods but will wait until I have confirmed permission to post from the Creator, but cool stuff nonetheless.

Anyway, here is something cool just released from Microsoft http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/experienceIt/ExperienceIt.aspx

interesting metaphorically as it's like an inverse version of Google Earth, looking at the galaxies

Good Networking Overview

Came across this while doing some network building and thought it was a nice overview of online networking. Interesting in that it is very much geared towards technical people being able to find their own next role through strong networking - making the Recruiter redundant

MS approach Yahoo

MS have made an informal approach to swallow up Yahoo, offering 60% more than a recent closing price on their shares. This would change the landscape of the online advertising world significantly and put a lot of pressure on Google. Ful article here. Interesting that Yahoo had profits of 660 million USD last year, which Microsoft generate in around 12 days

Yahoo to fire 1,000 worldwide

Yahoo are set to let 1,000 people go worldwide in the wake of a period of undeperforming shares and uncertainty. Full article here

Some light reading

Things are pretty hectic at the moment but never too busy to do some reading, here are some blogs I have been reading lately, the first one is from Peter Nguyen who keeps a blog called the Linked User Manual, well worth a read. I believe I mentioned this one before but Techgazing is also well worth reading regularly, and contains information on Ajay Jain's new book on Linkedin that I have not received yet, but when I do, I will post a review. I made some contributions as a Linkediner to some of the questions Ajay posted when conducting research for this book.