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LinkedIn vs. Facebook == Vertical vs. Horizontal

There has been a lot of commotion about the newly released Facebook APIs and why it will be replacing linkedin (just google and you would notice many prominent bloggers etc. talk about it). So of course, I tried it. I use Linkedin a lot. Recently, I read a specific post by Jeff Pulver saying he is abandoning LinkedIn to go with Facebook. Naturally, the decision to switch is subjective, but as far as my personal opinion goes, I don’t see them as overlapping. Here are a few reasons why: (Note: all of this is related to using Facebook as a ‘BUSINESS networking tool’) Horizontal vs. Vertical: LinkedIn is a ‘vertical’ tool. It is meant for networking of business professionals for buisness needs. Facebook seems to be a ‘horizontal’ tool – it allows business networking as well as networking for non-business needs, like say, going for movies, planning a party and what-not. East is East and West is West: My business life and profile is different from my personal life and profile. I’d love for my buddy to see my mood as ‘What the heck is wrong with the world today’, but don’t see any reason why the same mood needs

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Conceptualize your startup in 1 minute

Presenting the most powerful framework for conceptualizing your company. Credit: here Source I read it from: here See this: http://www.tdbspecialprojects.com/ Click on the central ‘shuffle’ button for ‘innovation’. Technology, VoIP, SIP, IMS, Marketing, Corporate Management

When have you just about had enough with the ‘Always on’ Blackberry?

When do you know you have had enough of ‘always connected Blackberry’ ? When your blinking of the eye matches the rate of the red LED blinking of your Blackberry When you wake up at 2AM to drink water, check your emails instead, then go back to sleep wondering why you are still thirsty When your hand automatically reaches down to your holster because it ‘vibrated’ only to find your phone is in your pocket, or worse, not even with you When you promise your wife not to sit with the laptop all the time only to scroll through your blackberry hidden on the other side of the couch When you like to keep holding your phone because of its ‘warmth’ When you make it a point, while traveling, to smile at someone else using a blackberry and then take yours out for a second, polish it an place it back thinking this is some sort of camaraderie of blackberry users When you have spent more money buying ‘screen protectors’, ‘glass replacement screens’, ‘skintight covers’ and other gadgets as compared to the cost of the phone itself When you get withdrawal symptoms if the red ‘new mail’ LED does not

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© Arjun Roychowdhury. My personal opinions only.