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I was just emailing with my friend Grace Buford. She is an independent musician. I gave her some advice about LinkedIn, and thought you might not be aware of how beneficial LinkenIn is. So I’m sharing the advice with you too. You’re welcome :)

From my email to Grace:

Yes indeed, LinkedIn is a fantastic place to make connections. And they happen randomly for me more then anything else. Right now I’m doing a months worth of Freelance web development from someone who found me on LinkedIn. I also had a job interview recently from someone that randomly found me on LinkedIn.

People are on here fore all sorts of reasons. So I’m SURE you can find purpose in it as well. The first step is make a connection with everyone you know. LinkedIn will search your gmail and other mail webmail clients. You can also go through people’s contact lists that you already know. I’m sure my list has a lot of people you already know. And it just spiders out from there. A bit tedious in the beginning, but once it is set up, it is just maintaining it and keeping the information up to date.

As for as real concrete opportunities. LinkedIn is the best social network on the internet. It is for, and used by, professionals. Not just high schoolers and college students and the New Media regulars.

And now, just like Grace, you know too!

I’m on to you istwitterdown.com :) I have wondered, and have seen others wonder, if in fact IsTwitterDown.com actually checking. So now that it Twitter is most definitely down for maintenance, istwitterdown.com is still showing no.

So I looked at the HTML for istwitterdown.com, and it all made sense. If you click the “No” it takes you to a CD on Amazon. However, you will likely not buy that CD, but when you go back to Amazon and buy things, the person that owns the affiliate account for istwitterdown.com will get credit for sending you there and get a percentage of the profit.

Clever, I must admit. Not your standard search engine spam website. However, even more clever and without the hidden agenda, IsItChristmas.com. To make the joke complete, it even comes with an RSS feed.

UPDATE: oops, nm. And my lil’ sis let me know, go figure :)

Story on foxnews.com. Donald Trump leaves a $10,000 tip on an $82 bill.

nice

WOW! This post at JuffPulver.com gives me so much hope for the near future of mobile phones.

I’m not going to rehash the whole thing. But I’ll say this. I have a vested interest in mobile phone/mobile computing becoming more powerful in the near term. This is why I have high hopes for Google’s bid on a spectrum of wireless being vacated by analog TV going digital. And now in Jeff’s post, he is talking about another kind of new world mobile phone company. I’m going to keep my eye on Orange Israel.

The mobile phone company is dead, long live the mobile phone company.

I just blogged this, but when I clicked on the link, it is a scam

I’m not sure how, but Firefox alerted me to it when I clicked on the link. I always look around before I log into these things, but that email had me bothered. Thank goodness for Firefox.

UPDATE: This is a scam. Read the follow up post here at: UPDATE: Oh SNAP! It’s a Skype Scam!.

I’m sure a lot of you just received in your email boxes the same thing I just received.

(emphasis and colors are theirs)

Dear valued Skype member:

It has come to our attention that your Skype account informations needs to be
updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to
reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take 5-10 minutes
out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into
any future problems with the online service.

However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension.
Please update your records on or before DEC 15, 2007.
you are requested to update your account informations at the following link.

https://secure.Skype.com/login_update_done=xxxxxxx

*Important*
We have asked few additional information which is going to be the part of secure login process. These additional information will be asked during your future login security so, please provide all these info completely and correctly otherwise due to security reasons we may have to close your account temporarily.

So my point is, if Skype valued me so much, why are they strong arming me? If I don’t update my account in the next dozen days, it will be suspended? This severely rubs me the wrong way. Maybe I’m making a mountain out of a mole hill, but I can’t look at this email without getting irritated.

I’ll update it because I value Skype, but I will do it in an irritated mood.