Spam & Phishing

LinkedIn phishing ? Think again…

When you see such an email, you don’t think that it is a phishing… After all, why would anyone steal your LinkedIn credentials, right? Nobody would request a ransom to give your credentials back, nobody would steal your email & password and try to reuse them on other websites. You have, after all, read my […]

General

Would you sell your business on LinkedIn?

If you receive on LinkedIn an email like the one below, with the subject “get back to me ASAP”, wouldn’t you wonder who is needing you so badly?   Do you want to sale 50% ownership or 100% ownership of your business. I just want something casual I could invest on with Eight Hundred Thousand […]

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1000 Contacts

I finally reached 1000 contacts on LinkedIn. Why “finally” ? Because it took me more than 10 years to reach this … Why do I do want to have so many contacts? Because : I like to be networked I think that I deliver a value to my contacts – the IT_SecurityNews Twitter feed which […]

News

How LinkedIn uses your face for job ads

I saw this picture while being logged in on LinkedIn. I wasn’t doing anything specific and definitely not something related to job  search. This appeared on the right side of the window. The funny thing is that if you click on Apply Now you see that actually the ad is location dependent. This job was in […]

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Goodbye Twitterfeed.com, Hello HootSuite.com (updated)

Until now, I used Twitterfeed.com to publish several RSS Feeds to Ping.fm and from there to several social media networks like Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, Yahoo and Flickr. For quite some time now, TwitterFeed is no longer compatible with Ping.fm. I’ve been quite patient and supportive with both Ping.fm and Twitterfeed.com . I even created bugs […]

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Using ping.fm

I have to many services which I like to use: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, this blog and others. But how can I keep them synchronized ? I can’t… because they are just too different. I found by mistake a service which can… It is called Ping.fm and it actually works : I write in one place […]