Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

LinkedIn recently had it’s IPO and miraculously it kept going up even after the IPO price had been increased several times.  This seemed to have surprised some onlookers and doomsayers will talk of another ‘tech bubble’.  I don’t think that is likely to happen again as too many people learned too many lessons, however greed [...]

I’ve written extensively about online reputations, social networks, and the dangers of electronic communication. Alas some people are still just plain stupid and it is starting to cost them. I’m not stupid, naive maybe, but not stupid. I Googled myself the other day and noticed that two of the top ten results were social networks [...]

It’s the long weekend, and I’m back to looking for a job. I’m looking for a lot of things, some answers, an apology, happiness… With all the time I’ve spent at Blenz or at home sitting in front of my laptop, I decided to clean up my inbox and blitzkrieg through some RSS feeds, I [...]

While checking for someone on LinkedIn.com I discovered LinkedIn had added another feature. This feature was already available on Xing.com and is found on some other online social networks. Basically what LinkedIn is now allowing you to know is who is looking at your profile. They don’t come right out and say “Bill Smith looked [...]