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There may also be work that you do that you think is of value, like browsing Linkedin, Twitter or other social networks.

Funded by venture capitalists, it recently secured $53m of funding in a deal that gave it a valuation of over $1 billion.

has been a controversial one, as many across Silicon Valley and Wall Street say that investors are being taken in by a new Internet bubble.

It is not too hard to make the case that this valuation puts LinkedIn and its social networking peers firmly in bubble territory.

However in this case Mr Thiel's gripe was that the banks failed to appreciate LinkedIn's tremendous potential.

Back in Silicon Valley, Reid Hoffman, a former executive VP, sits in his own office at the social networking site he started, LinkedIn.

That said, the company admits in offering documents that it has moved the goalposts at least once in estimating what its shares are worth.

LinkedIn, the professional social network, is preparing its own public offering this year, said people with direct knowledge of the matter.

Still, nobody says you can't check out the LinkedIn groups and communities to which he belongs.

Perhaps you gave a presentation at a conference, and members of the audience subsequently ask to connect with you on LinkedIn.

Whether it's on LinkedIn, Facebook or any other networking site, it's much more of a quality game than a quantity game.

LinkedIn is intended to appeal to its average user: the 41-year-old white-collar professional with an income of $109, 000 a year.

Facebook may turn out to be the next Google, and LinkedIn has a fairly solid revenue plan.

LinkedIn adds a very subtle shadow to the bottom of its sidebar elements to create the illusion of depth.

For LinkedIn Corp. Chief Executive Jeff Weiner, the latest technology boom hopefully won't turn out to be a bust.

Thinking like an entrepreneur is clearly something that the LinkedIn team is doing very impressively.

LinkedIn -- a social network aimed at professionals -- was among the first of a new crop of Web firms to go public this year.

Weiner: There were a few: Linkedin Today, our social news effort for professionals is off to a good start.

When you and I connected on LinkedIn, we did that for business reasons, we are not friends, we are co-workers or business associates.

This could be from LinkedIn, Facebook, the company website, or anywhere else your interviewer's face might appear online.

Fortune: Earlier in the year, you forecast a potential future loss as you invested in the business.

A year ago it took LinkedIn over a month to win 1m new members; it now takes about 15 days and the site has 42m members around the world.

No, I'm not saying the LinkedIn app is the future per se (that'd be silly), but rather the overall concept of it.

And yet, given all this, it's LinkedIn that is the first social network to go public, the first multi-billion Web 2. 0 IPO.

Surely LinkedIn, which has members in over 200 countries, is likely to be a more fertile source of contacts than a college reunion dinner?

By the way, if using LinkedIn in these ways becomes a common practice, we're apt to see more truthful resumes.

It looks as if even LinkedIn's bankers underestimated the hype.

"People think it's a good business with good prospects, but the valuation is stretched and the stock price is overdone, " he said.

Use LinkedIn's advanced search to find people with educational and work experience like yours to see where they work.

And the LinkedIn shares offered represented less than 10 percent of the company.

In Italy and Japan, LinkedIn is number one even though it has not translated its site into the local language in either place.

More so than Pandora or LinkedIn, RenRen could be the web IPO that sets the market's tone for the next year.

Applying Metcalfe's law to LinkedIn would seem reasonably safe, provided you could filter out the spammers.

LinkedIn is also benefiting from being one of the first such Web IPOs out of the gate, analysts added.

Entrepreneur dared me to go offline cold turkey for seven days--no e-mail, LinkedIn, AIM or Facebook (gulp! ).

Still, LinkedIn this month amended its prospectus for a planned initial public offering to cite such blocking as a risk.

This infographic celebrates key statistics and milestones for LinkedIn that are worth a look.

Many members of LinkedIn, for instance, answer questions to help build up their reputations as experts in particular subjects.

The product allows you to broadcast your business-related questions to both your network and the greater LinkedIn network.

They have two engineers who work on this pipeline, and are able to test five new algorithms per week.

Why not make LinkedIn all the more valuable by making it the currency that social sites all around the web make us of?

Ms. Renz suggested another way to get a name: Go on LinkedIn and look for someone who works in the same department as the posted job.

It probably can; as a growing number of business people come online, LinkedIn could become all the more useful.

The company suspended my account when it found out so I talked to their business development department about the value we sought to add.

Businesses can use LinkedIn as a powerful recruitment tool, finding potential employees with the exact talent and skills they require.

Did you know Brazil is the fastest growing market for LinkedIn?

Be very careful indeed before you accept the invitation to join the LinkedIn investor club.

Mr. Miller says he checked out Mr. McGee's LinkedIn profile and liked that it provided more detail about his future partner's background.

Only 19% of millionaires used LinkedIn unchanged from a year ago.

Mr. Nishioka and colleagues now teach associates throughout the company how to search for prospects in their LinkedIn networking accounts.

He rates lunch at the LinkedIn social networking company the best so far.

On LinkedIn, the social network for business networking, I see a constant flow of Linux and open-source software job offerings.

In spite of its sometimes clunky interface and cumbersome networking tools, credible business people can no longer afford to avoid LinkedIn.

LinkedIn enables you to just make direct contact, and that's my advice--if you can show success (see tip no. 4).

He'd respond via LinkedIn to ask what they had to offer.

Join a professional social networking site like LinkedIn to help maintain your network, and maybe even to show it off.

LinkedIn is the latest Internet company rushing to go public, amid strong investor interest and improved market conditions.

Or, did you know that Service, Finance and High Tech are the most represented industry sectors on LinkedIn.

Hackers can now access the many sites on which we used the same password as LinkedIn.

The company faces challenges from bigger Web companies such as Facebook, with its more than 600 million members.

That's much less of a problem on business-oriented networks like LinkedIn or Xing, Europe's fast-growing newcomer.

LinkedIn is expected to file a prospectus with regulators by the end of the quarter, one person said.

LinkedIn has made collating and using data a priority, with lead data scientists completely integrated into the commercial operation.

It might be better known for its impact on the world of social media, but LinkedIn also has a hugely innovative approach to data.

"LinkedIn is now more important than job boards for professional women, " says Joyce.

LinkedIn is a networking site for professionals, so users might be more careful about what they say.

Free online tools -- such as social networking sites LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook -- can help contribute to your online presence as well.

The LinkedIn iPhone app is, in my opinion, better than the actual LinkedIn. com website.

So the LinkedIn effect should not be relied on to permeate upcoming listings.

LinkedIn invests heavily in open source, with the goal of building on best in class components, recruiting community involvement.

So it's possible to argue that even for believers, LinkedIn's stock price is two years ahead of itself.

I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.

Your online presence should be, at a minimum, a website or a blog under your full name and profiles on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.

LinkedIn is a massive network of professionals, each linked to other users as a "Connection" .

LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook: Social media has become more important to a company's brand than anyone could have imagined.

Online forums and communities on Linked in and Facebook are a great way to start off.

"I already had a LinkedIn account with several hundred contacts, " says Mr Thompson.

It also lacks the ability to pull in content from other social networks, like some third-party apps do with LinkedIn, Facebook and MySpace.

Most members only visit LinkedIn monthly, the prospectus said, compared with much more active use by Facebook users.

"We have the most elite, international and aspiring people, " says Kevin Eyres, head of LinkedIn in Europe.

Within hours of updating his job status on the social-networking site LinkedIn, Mr. So won four job interviews through his contacts there.

Professor Acquisti says social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn represent some of the world's largest databases of identities.

The traditional tools available -- headhunters, temp agencies, referrals, even LinkedIn -- can sometimes be more tiresome than helpful.

Another great opportunity for references from your current boss and coworkers are LinkedIn endorsements.

So what if you don't have much of a network and think this tool is pointless?

Prior to that, LinkedIn was in the red every year since its 2003 inception -- except for a slight profit in 2006.

In mid-2008, LinkedIn launched LinkedIn DirectAds as a form of sponsored advertising.

After interviews at several of the firms, Mr. Beust in May joined LinkedIn as a principal software engineer.

'You look at your Linked In contacts and think, 'They're not all going to make the journey with me, ' ' says Ms. Kan.

The most popular social network as measured by Nielsen online meters is Facebook, followed by Blogger, Tumblr, Twitter and LinkedIn.

Some sites keep a very professional approach (like LinkedIn) while others have a more organic, free-form look (like MySpace).

The impersonator started arguments with LinkedIn contacts, and sent racist abuse and homophobic rants.

LinkedIn, a professionals' network with 100m registered users, provides a guide to the pitfalls in its recent IPO filing.

Weiner joined LinkedIn in January as its interim president and has received the support of other LinkedIn executives.

Create a LinkedIn profile and start connecting. Ask and answer LinkedIn questions to increase your visibility.

We're hearing from a number of business news publishers they are seeing record levels of referrals coming from LinkedIn. com.

Unfortunately, in this era of data portability and connected social networks, LinkedIn isn't playing very nicely.

Chances are that a few of them will respond, and you can now take the relationship to the more professional environment of LinkedIn.

In: Including your Linked In or other social network address in your resume's header.

LinkedIn and Facebook are not capturing some partial element of my network.

The ability to schedule out individual Linkedin messages to your contacts inbox.

Its 4. 2% stake in LinkedIn, amassed at a cost of about $70 million, is now valued at nearly $400 million.

Use online aids like LinkedIn and Facebook to find mutual friends and ask for introductions rather than cold calling when possible.

The LinkedIn mantra that "relationships matter" has become the central dogma of our social media age.

Shares of social-networking website LinkedIn Corp. last month more than doubled on their first day of trading.

Ramp up your networking. Join LinkedIn and Plaxo, and ask for recommendations from current and past coworkers.

Mr. Beust's job target list included Facebook, micro-blogging service Twitter Inc. and professional social-networking company LinkedIn Corp.

Facebook has already set up a dual class structure, and LinkedIn and others have dual class equity.

LinkedIn on Thursday announced it has 150 million members in its network, a 20 million increase over November.

Mr. Hoffman may be a paper billionaire, but he sold only about $5 million of stock in the IPO.

Whether LinkedIn can maintain this valuation has implications for Silicon Valley and the broader Web industry.

LinkedIn provides a platform to get recommendations from those that may not otherwise give you one. Why?

With the popularity of Facebook and LinkedIn, the curriculum vitae might seem an anachronism.

Those are LinkedIn's main U. S. revenue sources, suggesting China has potential, too, if it can appeal to locals.

Meanwhile LinkedIn, the world's biggest business-centric social network, recently announced its plan to float on the stock market.

LinkedIn is well on its way to becoming the networking site of choice for English-speaking businesspeople with global connections.

The site, where people post resumes and exchange messages with colleagues, business contacts and recruiters, has 120 million members.

If this person requested the connection through LinkedIn, send a note explaining you would like to find out more about what he or she does.

Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter are effective ways to find former or current employees at the firms you're attracted to.

Like all foreign websites, LinkedIn can be blocked and has been, though only briefly.

Join LinkedIn and Facebook and set up a Twitter account, and use them to further your career ambitions.

LinkedIn participates in EU's International Safe Harbor Privacy Principles.

LinkedIn's valuation is partly a reflection of its niche strategy.

Members with complete profiles are 40 times more likely to receive opportunities through LinkedIn.

As a LinkedIn user, I do not benefit when more strangers join.

Search for organizations on LinkedIn. com that do the kind of work you're interested in.

Filter our personal blog entries by using the tag "linkedin" in the settings of your WordPress blog post.

So the 23-year-old began searching LinkedIn. com for a potential partner and found Grant Miller.

80% of companies use social media for recruitment; 95% of these using LinkedIn.

However, he would stay away from social media stocks such as LinkedIn or Facebook, whose IPO is scheduled for early next year.

LinkedIn, the largest business networking site, has 26m members and a valuation of $1bn.

The social nets created through Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and other sites are actually complex support circles.

Customers include MySpace, LinkedIn, and comScore.

So the person you're looking for likely has a Friendster, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter, or Xanga account?

LinkedIn ended its first trading day with a stock-market value of about $9 billion.

Launch a twitter campaign, create and manage a LinkedIn group or beta-test a Facebook marketing push?

LinkedIn has several uses in business, one of the most important being recruitment.

Our talent specialists post open positions on their Facebook [and LinkedIn pages].

In recent weeks big names like Pandora Media and Linkedin have gone public, brought to market by banks.

Join LinkedIn and Plaxo, and ask for recommendations from current and past coworkers.

For corporate oriented services like LinkedIn, I'd use my Union Square Ventures headshot.

A proof point is the fact that we now have over 100, 00 publishers with "Share on LinkedIn" buttons on their sites.

Of the more than 100 million users on LinkedIn. com, the most common names of Western male and female CEOs are Peter and Deborah.

For a start, both are far smaller: LinkedIn has 38m members and Xing only 6m, mainly in Europe.

No, the Russian hackers aren't stupid, and they don't care whether you actually use LinkedIn or not.

"It's hard to justify, based on [LinkedIn's] current performance, " added Ryan Jacob of the Jacob Internet Fund.

Use your contact list to spam you with even more LinkedIn email invitations than you already get?

But what if LinkedIn's platform easily copes with millions of new members?

You can also include a link to your profile as part of an email signature.

One of Mr Mao's investments is in Wealink, a Chinese site inspired by LinkedIn that has around 1. 2m users.

According to Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, the site is increasingly becoming a peer-to-peer career-development network.

On the email Tom K sent, there is only one option: accept.

LinkedIn is missing a trick in not being more brutal in making public the refusals to connect.

The right way to do it is to go directly to the LinkedIn or eHarmony site.

'First, I created a LinkedIn profile in which I customized my profile URL so that it included my name, ' he says.

Unlike LinkedIn and most other social networks, Facebook lets you search users by email address so that should make your job simpler.

LinkedIn should still be the choice for our business connections.

the site is increasingly becoming a peer-to-peer career-development network.

LinkedIn, which has more than 100 million members, allows people to network professionally online and provides recruiting tools.

Incidentally, if your boss fits one, better get on LinkedIn and update your resume.

In 2009, it began buying large blocks of stock in companies like Zynga, LinkedIn and Facebook on the secondary market.

LinkedIn does not disclose its financial figures but says it is profitable, with revenues up "well over 100 per cent" year-on-year in 2008.

The only thing I can think of is that LinkedIn is really a dating site in disguise.

A recent LinkedIn (LNKD) survey found that 41% of hiring managers consider volunteer experience equally valuable as paid work.

LinkedIn is today's fastest growing recruiting company.

Keep updated profiles on Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networking sites.

For more leadership coverage, follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

LinkedIn: used by 80% of companies recruiting through the social Web.

On May 19th LinkedIn , a networking site for professionals, saw its share price soar by 109% on its market entry.

LinkedIn is a great and very useful research tool.

Still, shares are coming under pressure now that insiders can sell.

Internal recruiters connect with workers' LinkedIn accounts so they can pinpoint promising contacts and arrange introductions.

Remember that LinkedIn, which is expected to make $420 million this fiscal year, was worth $9 billion on its first day of trading.

Now, he says, programmes are making use of wikis and blogs and Royal Holloway also uses LinkedIn to network with alumni.

LinkedIn, a forum to post individuals' business profiles, claims more than 36 million members in more than 200 countries.

"You aren't doing your job correctly if you aren't on it, " Eyres responded.

LinkedIn's revenue from company recruiters is also growing rapidly.

LinkedIn, with more than 65 million members, offers several ways to forge inside ties.

'In this market, having a profile on LinkedIn doesn't necessarily mean you're looking, ' says Mr. Burke.

Almost 6, 000 companies, including Google, Hewlett-Packard and LinkedIn, trace their beginnings to Stanford.

While they met through LinkedIn, they also scanned each other's profiles on Facebook.

Its shares doubled in their first day of trading, a phenomenon reminiscent of the version 1. 0 tech bubble.

The two most popular sites, LinkedIn and Xing, have been growing at breakneck speed and boast 29m and 6. 5m members respectively.

On Friday, after Zynga filed its prospectus, LinkedIn rallied, rising as much as 6%.

Add 2 contacts per week on either LinkedIn or Facebook. It's a great way to connect with people and get opportunities flowing.

On Tuesday, restrictions on short selling the stock will be lifted.

LinkedIn, which went public last month, revealed that it earned just $15 million in 2010.

He has developed the technology for an online job-search engine that taps into social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

You can also see open jobs at the contact's company by conducting searches through LinkedIn.

Frustrated workers should also take constructive steps, such as networking and creating an exceptional LinkedIn profile, he says.

Some sites, such as LinkedIn, a professional network that helps its members further their careers, already boast healthy revenue streams.

You don't have to go as far as Steven Burda, a 27-year-old immigrant from the former Soviet Union, who has 39, 000 connections on LinkedIn.

This plug-in will make it easier to build connections right from your browser using the popular online tool LinkedIn.

I am a particular fan of LinkedIn, which appears to be undergoing a resurgence in popularity.

Only 13 CEOs had profiles on the professional networking site LinkedIn.

Yet he remains sanguine and still has a LinkedIn account.

Tap your network on LinkedIn to find acquaintances in the VC's portfolio.

Russian hackers stole 6 million passwords from LinkedIn.

They also remained fairly cool to LinkedIn.

Personally, I think we'd find even more interesting information if we could look for other correlations in that LinkedIn database.

She soon became a relatively early user of LinkedIn and Twitter, using them to expand her online presence.

If you don't already have an account on professional networking sites like LinkedIn. com or Birjj. com, get one.

'They have three solid revenue streams, ' that is 'really a good sign, ' said analyst Debra Aho Williamson of research firm eMarketer.

If you can't find a local group, think of creating one yourself, or join a virtual group on LinkedIn. com.

But data from Nielsen, an audience measurement firm, show only 1. 8 per cent of UK internet users visit LinkedIn.

Examples include operating systems for smartphones and social networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn.

LinkedIn also sold just 9% of its shares.

Web sites such as LinkedIn and Facebook are good at catching some of those connections, but not all.

The following example shows how to get a user profile from LinkedIn using HttpClient with OAuth support.

You derive value from other people using it.

LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter are essential tools in a job hunt these days, but online social media can't replace in-person conversations.

So over 10% of the world's professionals are already on LinkedIn.

Last night, I attended a fun networking event in Berkeley, full of people who are on LinkedIn.

Create a LinkedIn page and maintain it.

You need to have a LinkedIn account and create an application.

On his LinkedIn page, Mr. Lee alone lists more than 10 companies where he has worked.

LinkedIn said it started the year with 450 employees and expects to end the year with 900.

Mr Pickup: I have a Facebook account, a Twitter account and a LinkedIn account.

First LinkedIn was getting a platform (which they have finally made good on).

It helps that LinkedIn has the cash to weather the storm.

LinkedIn is the most popular site, with 73% of small businesses using the professional network, according to the poll.

The LinkedIn group has 75, 000 members, but the Facebook community is falling behind.

Descriptive words and phrases, such as "Join LinkedIn, " are preferred.

Another 100 million use LinkedIn.

I don't see ads on LinkedIn when I log into my account.

Private secondary markets supposedly value LinkedIn at $2. 5bn-$3bn.

Mr Murphy said sell recommendations on LinkedIn are based on a short time horizon of five to 20 days.

And be sure to leverage online networking services, such as LinkedIn and TheFunded. com. Another great resource is Avvo.

"Who knows? " says a smiling Mr Mao. "Maybe in the future we'll see Wealink buy LinkedIn. "

Others can use LinkedIn or Quora to do the same.

Using the LinkedIn online network, Mr. Wadhwa identified 1, 203 skilled Indians and Chinese who had returned home.

I am only 85 percent complete on LinkedIn, and that bothers me.

A search for a person, for example, typically pulls out useful listings from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

And they went to social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn, where most users post real names and photos of themselves.

LinkedIn, therefore, relies on firms' human-resources departments and advertisers for most of its revenues, which reached $100m last year.

How well do you really know all those connections on Facebook or LinkedIn?

(LinkedIn shares have fallen 19 per cent in the past week).

Some investors stressed that LinkedIn's valuation is far too lofty for a company that generated $243 million in revenue last year.

I am also personally an investor in LinkedIn.

Have you been thinking of giving a nice recommendation to that team member on LinkedIn or for their website?

While Tianji may have a linguistic advantage over LinkedIn in China, it still faces a fair amount of home-grown competition.

LinkedIn, for example, is developing a service that aggregates data it holds to show career paths for certain professions.

Maintain strong profiles on LinkedIn and ZoomInfo, two top sites recruiters, human resource professionals and hiring managers go every day.

Talk to people working in the field and join networking groups on sites like LinkedIn. com, for example.

LinkedIn thinks its data can do the same for the job market.

LinkedIn is valued at $8. 35bn, more than 500 times 2010 earnings.

Most people use LinkedIn to "get to someone" in order to make a sale, form a partnership, or get a job.

LinkedIn's share price rose 109 per cent to $94. 25 on Thursday, but fell to $93. 09 on Friday.

Mr Gates has been on LinkedIn since last year, and so far has made only five connections to other members.

How do you see the role of social media, such as LinkedIn?