Linkedin has a market cap over well over $10 Billion -- so I seriously doubt Google wants to buy it. A Linkedin acquisition would be a slap in the face to its G+ team, too.
Puzzlingly, I haven't seen much clamor for "openness" from Linkedin in the way of allowing users to download their profiles. Facebook and Google have ways to export their social networking data... but does Linkedin? hmmm.
LinkedIn's business model isn't just the same as CraigsList's. It's also the same as Google: Find something that people want to do, and find people willing to pay for it. The brilliant part is that it isn't the same people paying as doing the thing.
I dream that Google buys LinkedIn. I think it would be a good marriage - Google could do wonders with LinkedIn's UI UX and Google+ could use LinkedIn's user base.
lin crampton wrote -- "I just wish they would do something about their UI UX. Saying LinkedIn is "not the sexiest social media platform" is a grand understatement."
LinkedIn is my favorite social media site, however, as the workforce it caters to ages, it will be of growing importance to provide a more social, "informal" UI UX.
Paul, I'm sorry, but I don't see Mark Z. standing by idly while the Wall Street investors made his company a hotly debated public entity. Surely he believed it was time for Facebook to be more than merely a successful meeting place.
Linkedin has capitalized on the same thing Craigslist did -- charge companies for job-related posts and offer free services to everyone else. It's a very smart freemium model. G+ and FB have the same sort of idea, but the "paid for" service is general advertising -- which is a lot less focused than Linkedin's "job ads"...
Perhaps Linkedin's "job ads" are limiting, but for now, it's a clear niche that Linkedin owns -- and it's possible that Linkedin could someday expand into more general ads and offer a less jobs-based social network.
Hi Mitch, LinkedIn has a decisive advantage as it has a very finite audience it targets. I think the all-in-one shopping mall type social network companies like Facebook will begin to really taper off in favor of more centrically focused Websites, like a Pinterest.
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