Slashdot Mirror
LinkedIn Moves Into Video, Starting With Quora-Style Q&A From Influencers (techcrunch.com)
LinkedIn has become the latest major technology company to get into video content. On Tuesday, the social network for professionals announced a new app that its hand-selected group of influencers can create and share short videos directly to the app's news feed. It's the first time LinkedIn has ever let users upload video directly to the service, something that's been standard on other social sites for years. TechCrunch adds: LinkedIn will start first with videos created by LinkedIn 'Influencers' -- an invitation-only group of 500 LinkedIn users who have significant numbers of followers and who regularly post content to the site -- who will be making videos that are short, 30-seconds-or-less responses to questions put to them specifically or to the community at large. Influencers will be creating their videos using a special iOS and Android app called "Record" that LinkedIn has created for this purpose -- which for now will only be accessible by these Influencers, LinkedIn tells me.
I got 800+ connections with recruiters. Where's my invitation to be an influencer?
The rest of us peasants don't get to participate. LinkedIn is about following the important, big name C level folks using the platform to further promote their names and businesses. It's not about the rest of us. I won't participate in their scheme...if I wanted to watch videos of narcissists doing their thing, there is YouTube and Facebook.
This is really exciting news. Hopefully they add audio next. Keep us updated, manishs!
Why do people use LinkedIn? I can't imagine anyone with enough depth to their abilities or recruiter requirements is going to pay a blind bit of notice to it. I can see it helping for employing people doing menial labor, but that's precisely what it's not aimed at.
Or maybe the definition of menial labor has to be changed for the 21st century.
I don't think LinkedIn users are at all interested in any kind of media. LinkedIn is modern equivalent of self-updating Rolodex.
LinkedIn used to be a place where professionals could post an electronic resume, where one would keep a nicely trimmed list of well-known associates that would validate claimed experience with at least some level of authenticity.
Today it's a place where people attempt to connect up with anyone and everyone they've never worked with, all for the express purpose of creating an online resume that would make God himself look woefully inept by comparison.
Video? Sure, why the hell not. It's not like you're going to risk data integrity...
LinedIN is NOT a technology company! If we're going to use the standards that make LinkedIN to be a technology company then every airline is a technology company, plumbing distributors, your local grocery store chain - actually, having worked in that industry's software, I can tell you that their technology rivals many Silicon Valley companies.
So, they have videos now. Woop-Tee-Doo!
I think the only reason these companies are called technology companies is to get those retarded valuations that tech companies get.
Anyway, LinkedIN is a shit site. The only thing I ever got from it was spam from recruiters - or at least folks who said they were recruiters. I never got a job through them. Ever.
Today it's a place where people attempt to connect up with anyone and everyone they've never worked with, all for the express purpose of creating an online resume that would make God himself look woefully inept by comparison.
LinkedIN does that. When you sign up now, they demand access to your contact list. And then they spam everyone on it with a false invite from those people. I know this for a fact because I contacted those people when it happened to me. I asked, "Why are you, a dietician, trying to link with me, a software developer?"
"It wasn't me. LinkedIN just does that."
I got the same answer from everyone but the one person I actually worked with.
LinkedIN has become spammers and a home for recruiters of questionable ethics.
I deleted my account. I never -EVER - got a job via LinkedIN anyway.
Wasn't LinkedIn bought by Microsoft?
What's next Skype For Business integration/requirement?
Didn't that trigger a precipitous decline in usefulness and relevance?
Will anyone continue to use LinkedIn?
2017 the year that "social" dies. It can't come too soon.
After Windows 10, I thought MS would need to rest up before damaging yet another once-useful product.
to reward long term spammers, maybe they can pickup some Windows 10 upgrade tricks.
I have been with LinkedIn for over 10 years. Initially I kept a serious résumé there. Not any more. LinkedIn is, for the most part, a window for people to show off how good they would like to be - it is Facebook, with a false veneer of professionalism. My LinkedIn is now a complete joke - but people keep trying to link into it and endorse me, probably expecting that I will do reciprocate.
LinkedIn is pretty pathetic but, with the right attitude, it can be fun.
So that means I can get spammed with more craptastic "invites" from people I've never heard of but now with VIDEO?
Where do I sign up?
Oh wait, Linkedin already automagically signed me up and I can laboriously unsubscribe only to be 'mysteriously' resubbed over and over again!
-Styopa
Is this another service where you are supposed to give up your data for free to enrich a corporation, without absolutely nothing of value given to you in return?
Given the audience of LinkedIn, I imagine the short list of "influencers" includes...
- Anyone from Gartner or Forrester -- hello Magic Quadrants! [1]
- A random smattering of Web 2.0 startup CEOs talking about "disruption"
- HR consulting snake oil salesmen touting the latest fad
LinkedIn is becoming as much of a dumping ground as Facebook these days. I use it as a public resume, recruiter-collector and contact list. Lots of people are using it as a thinly veiled extension of their personal Facebook profile - adding video is just going to hasten this. There's plenty of narcissists on YouTube, no need to pollute LinkedIn.
[1] Part of being a senior level technology guy in big companies leads me to interact with various people who do nothing beyond looking at where Vendor X is in the Gartner Magic Quadrant before dropping millions on products/projects. What is it about Gartner that conveys Pope-level infallibility? Seriously people, these reports are written by 26 year old MBAs with a tiny bit of tech background...
A Look at Sexism in Technology for Female Software Engineers
I'm a male software engineer, and I've seen enough Good 'Ol Boys shit in my industry to last me a lifetime.
I deleted my account with LinkedIn and refuse to associate with them ever again.
... by the inspired application name.
Record
How long did it take them, and how much did they pay, to come up with this?