Microsoft and LinkedIn: What the CEOs are planning "Remember that dystopian view of the future in which technology displaces millions of people from their jobs? It's happening." So begins the less-than-cheery explanation of the huge $26.2bn acquisition of LinkedIn to staff by its CEO Jeff Weiner. Weiner appears to recognize that for many of his employees, being acquired by …
"Why LinkedIn Monetizers yes, and Microsoft Monetizers not?"
LinkedIn is mostly neutral with no direct ties to anyone. Microsoft has a vested interest in Microsoft (as it should). So now, a site used mostly for professional networking* is all of a sudden owned by a very biased party.
* so there HAVE been an awful lot of Facebook style posts there lately, which is forcing me to re-eval my relationship with them, prior to the MS buyout.
@energystar, from my perspective I am on LinkedIn for my benefit - it's all about career progression and professional networking. Yes, LinkedIn monetize my details (which are not open to everyone, just those organizations, such as recruiters, willing to pay for the access - my public profile is relatively limited in its scope) but in the end I benefit too. I got my current job through being contacted on LinkedIn.
Now tell me how I benefit from Microsoft's data slurping...
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You hit the nail on the head m8, Its the user data it wants, all that user slurping data to add to its Win 10 data !!!
Sheeeesh !
I you have a LinkedIn account then I suggest destroying it and damn quickly before MacroSlurp gets its beady claws into it !
I can see a lot of Win 7 and Linux users trashing their accounts ASAP - ROFL - Run for the hills !
I you have a LinkedIn account then I suggest destroying it and damn quickly before MacroSlurp gets its beady claws into it !
As far as I can tell from continued accuracy after I all but cleared out my profile, LinkedIn doesn't delete anything, it just makes it unavailable. As far as I can tell it's still hanging on to all the data I naïvely gave them (years ago before privacy became a real issue).
"As far as I can tell from continued accuracy after I all but cleared out my profile, LinkedIn doesn't delete anything, it just makes it unavailable. As far as I can tell it's still hanging on to all the data I naïvely gave them (years ago before privacy became a real issue)."
Facebook is the same unless you really go through the hoops to get it deleted. They still count your account as being active so they can 'monetize' your non activity.
Sooooo, my Facebook account that I use because others need me to have one, is a non related cove and not one single fact therin is correct account wise.
Now, you shouldn't trust multi-million cooperation because first and foremost things evolve around their revenue and nothing else. But... I also think it's fair to say that out of all the companies out there Microsoft has proven themselves to be more caring about the individual users privacy than others. Well, at least that's the impression I've been getting.
Just read their several user agreements. Heck, lets take a very easy example: my Windows phone. Every time I used a certain feature for the first time (keyboard, speech recognition, e-mail, etc.) I got asked if I would allow Microsoft access to some data for "improvements". You know, the commonly used "phone home" feedback. I even skipped a few because I was not in the mood for those questions because I wanted to get some work done.
Each and every time the option turned out to be opt-in. It was disabled by default and the question was basically if I'd allow them to activate it. Most phones have all this stuff turned on by default, making it opt-out.
Microsoft has done some severely stupid and intrusive things, I'm not denying any of that, but in this current situation (also looking at the several end user agreements) I'd sooner trust Microsoft with more personal data than, say, Google (even though, in all honesty, Google also never makes a secret out of it that they want to make money from using your data).
Of course anything can change.
I'd sooner trust Microsoft with more personal data than, say, Google (even though, in all honesty, Google also never makes a secret out of it that they want to make money from using your data).
I won't, and not because they have used opt-in a lot. I won't because they haven't got the first clue of security. Based on more than 2 decades worth of experience using Microsoft products, I have the impression that their idea of security is pretending that risks don't exist. I wouldn't want them, their products or their services anywhere near anything confidential or protectively marked.
From a security perspective, Microsoft has never been anything but a malignant infestation so if you thought LinkedIn couldn't get any worse, just watch.
"We are in pursuit of a common mission centered on empowering people and organizations. " -Satya Nadella.
'Microsoft is saving the company...'
Well... We'll see. If Microsoft ACTUALLY empowering LinkedIn minions' environment, providing them with whatever necessary to effectively advance in the now Wider panorama. [Should I express likeness about Satya attitude?].
MS should have a strong watch on LinkedIn' work ambiance, if really wishing to nourish that Team.
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Not only do I not have to post a bullshit CV to LinkedIn I also get to run Linux.
Fuckin' Karma.
My sympathies to all of you left in the 'rat race'... I'll just get back to my Roasted Sausage, Bacon and Cheese Mashed Potato Bake. If Lester is interested I'll publish the recipe on FacePlant, assuming he cannot work it out for himself and I have a FacePlant account.
"We are in pursuit of a common mission centered on empowering people and organizations. Along with the new growth in our Office 365 commercial and Dynamics businesses, this deal is key to our bold ambition to reinvent productivity and business processes,"
Slurp finally got the windows 10 bullshit generator working!
Finally time to upgrade, folks?
Man is that yesterdays tech. Sorta like FriendsReUnited... Cool for a while then? Passe and then totally uncool.
I'm actually glad that MS has wasted their money again.
Anon because (shame on me) I actually have a LinkedIn account. Honest Guv, it was only created so that I could view prospective employee's details. It thinks I am still at my job before the last one so it is bang uptodate.
I'll delete it once the deal has closed. Thank god I'm retiring soon.
No Windows 10 and no LinkedIn. What's not to like eh? {don't answer that...}
All this coverage of this acquisition on the The Register, yet I haven't seen anyone make the point that potentially LinkdIn's biggest competitor is the long established recruitment agency industry. They were making money from their own silos of user/client-provided data long before Facebook et al were on the scene, agencies that would take a percentage of someone's earnings. What value would they add? Why, no more than consult their databases and liaises with employers and employees.
LinkdIn has the potential to disrupt that - if anything else, it could automate the process of checking references, from the point of view of recruiters.
This isn't my point of view, but one that given to me in a pub by the head of recruitment for a large company a few years back.
"empowering". .... "get [stuff] done"
The slavishness (no pun intended) with which MS lersistently re-cycles its mantras is worthy of Stalin.
Does anyone know how they enforce the prescribed MS dictionary? Is there an office at Redmond which has the power to veto any public pronouncement which does not use the mandated spin terms?
found 2 posts.
1) Open Sourcing Photon ML LinkedIn's Scalable Machine Learning Library for Spark. Machine learning is a key component of LinkedIn's relevance-driven products. We use machine learning to train the ranking algorithms for our feed, advertising, recommender systems (such as People You May Know), email optimization, search engines, and more.
2) "registreer je voor het webinar met kenner Yorick Dokter" sponsored by Microsoft Nederland (never saw this s** before).
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