Thursday, November 29, 2007
LinkedIn’s Dan Nye Speaks!
The rumors have been a-flyin’ recently about the reported talks between LinkedIn and News Corp.
Billing itself as the “professional” social network, the serious cousin to the party-hearty twins of MySpace and Facebook, the LinkedIn service is squarely aimed at those with a task in mind from networking to recruiting to career advancement.
In many ways, it is trying to be a business classified service with online presence and connection elements woven in. LinkedIn execs, in fact, throw around the term, “productivity tool,” much in the same way Facebook likes to talk about the joys of “SuperPoking” (by the way, not so joyful to adults).
With 16 million users from all sorts of sectors and spread out globally, LinkedIn getting a look-see by News Corp. makes a lot of sense. It just bought Dow Jones (owner of this site) and its flagship business newspaper The Wall Street Journal, and owns many newspapers, all of which need an online answer to the diminishing print employment-classified business.
In any case, I talked to newly installed LinkedIn CEO Dan Nye recently (before the recent rumors) about the company:
(I still am having problems with the Brightcove player, so I uploaded the video to YouTube.)
