GOOD MORNING

A social networking website

Founder : Reid HoffmanFounded in December,2002 and

launched in May 5, 2003

LINKEDIN is for a new way of doing Business.

Ten years on, LinkedIn has established itself as an international company, with more than 3,700 employees around the world, including in Mountain View, California, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Amsterdam, Dubai, Hong Kong, Milan, Mumbai, Paris,Toronto and several others.

It is available in 19 different languages — besides English, there’s Dutch, French, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and more

INFORMATION

Here’s a screenshot of LinkedIn back when it rolled out in 2003.

 

The existing way of finding a job and making connections is just not working anymore. There’s an adage that says “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.”

“ Networks are valuable. Is a job candidate honest or hard-working? You can’t tell from a resume or even from an interview. That’s why people fall back on trusted relationships.”

Cofounder, Mr. Blue said that LinkedIn’s role has always been to help every professional find a job that they love and be great at it.He believes that soon there will be a world where “people are doing what they love, and not just because they have no other choice available ”

In the past decade, LinkedIn has surely changed the networking paradigm that millions of people were accustomed to. It offers more context into not only what we can share about our professional accolades, but also learn about new opportunities, companies, and the people we want to be connected with.

Allen Blue’s words

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Guericke once spoke with Bloomberg Business week and described what made LinkedIn different from those traditional social networks:

“It doesn’t come from networking; it just comes automatically. Gradually people do tend to lose touch even if they are at same place. So LinkedIn is one such platform in this fast advancing world to stay in touch and get ideas not just from people around you instead from all over the world “

FEW REVIEWS

In June 2012, cryptographic hashes of approximately 6.4 million users passwords were stolen by hackers who then published the stolen hashes online.

Security experts criticized LinkedIn for not SALTING their password profile and instead using a single iteration of SHA-1

LinkedIn doesn’t have a spell checker.

BUMP IN THE ROAD AND SOME FEW DRAWBACKS

It took LinkedIn a year to reach 1 million registered users and seven years later, the company reached 100 million.

This number still falls short of other social networks like Google+, Facebook, and Twitter, but having that there are many people focused on professional development instead of just simply telling the world what they had for breakfast .  

100 MILLION MEMBERS

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