Comments on: LinkedIn lets you see who is viewing your profile — sort of

By: Matt Marshall

Matt Marshall — Mon, 14 May 2007 20:06:19 +0000

It’s still there. Uday, I’ve updated with a screenshot showing where to find it from your home page.

By: hunter

hunter — Mon, 14 May 2007 01:50:41 +0000

cool in theory but somewhat less than exciting in its current incarnation.

I don’t like the arbitrary decision to hide part of the feature behind premium. They should instead go the MyBlogLog route — make full stats visible but on 24+ hr delay for regular members, real time for premium. It’s the time element that’s valuable here, not the # of people they show you.

Also let’s turn this into a RSS feed or some other way for me to get this data out of LinkedIn.

By: DMACK

DMACK — Sun, 13 May 2007 07:41:50 +0000

How do you get to this feature?

By: DJ

DJ — Sat, 12 May 2007 23:20:30 +0000

Seems it was working yesterday, but is no longer avaialble today. Backlash?

I had 17 visits this month, 12 by recruiters. I will polish my profile as a result – I had assumed mostly colleagues were viewing it.

Definately newsworthy to this audience!

By: Uday

Uday — Sat, 12 May 2007 15:42:17 +0000

I like this feature. I don’t find this link in my home page. Can someone tell me, where exactly to find this link in the LinkedIn?

By: Matt Marshall

Matt Marshall — Sat, 12 May 2007 15:33:07 +0000

It’s newsworthy for the community that reads VentrueBeat. I’d bet 90 percent of regular readers are using LinkedIn. And if they’re not aware that their company/affiliation is showing every time they view a profile, they should be. Newsworthy? I thought so. LinkedIn said it was their most requested feature. And it shows how carefully a company is juggling privacy. Lots of companies are grappling with the issues, so the real use may not be in the feature itself, but in the way LinkedIn is going about implementing it. Re HOTorNOT refeference, it came my attention recently, and I found it interesting. It was my way of imparting more news.

By: Oliver Thylmann

Oliver Thylmann — Sat, 12 May 2007 11:57:47 +0000

Look, this is probably one of the most interesting features for the pro account with Xing/OpenBC. But there, you fully see who visited your profile.

It is great to see who is out there, who is reading about you, who comes by when an interview is online somewhere, … . And it is only available to premium members.

So this is a copy move, but a half-baked one, and it does make me wonder and that makes it news worthy. (not that it makes me wonder but that it’s a copy )

Oliver

By: Amy Smith

Amy Smith — Sat, 12 May 2007 04:27:20 +0000

Matt, it’s a little hypocritical to call it “limited in its usefulness” but be using it to advertise the fact that someone from DFJ has viewed your profile. And what’s with the HotOrNot comparison? If you’re trying to add sex appeal to your site, I find it distasteful. It seems like you’re trying a little too hard to be Valleywag.

By: You Mon Tsang

You Mon Tsang — Fri, 11 May 2007 21:01:17 +0000

This is also an upsell opportunity. My profile has had 10 views, but I get to see only the first five for free. Upgrade to a paid account to see more.

By: Rob Gordon

Rob Gordon — Fri, 11 May 2007 19:11:03 +0000

Matt,

Is this seriously newsworthy?

Rob Gordon

San Diego
http://www.CALTRADE.com