Great linkedin story

on my honeymoon, but I can´t resist this. I was bugging my friend andrew who is a free lance writer to use LinkedIN more because I thought he might get some work ...

Andrew,

Howdy. I was just browsing Linkedin, looking for people who could write feature stories for Wired, and you popped up. Seems like you've got a lot of Wired-esque clips and experience.

If you're game, we should talk on the phone, or you should stop by the next time
you come through New York.

Cheers * Nick

Senior Editor> Wired Magazine> 4 Times Square> NY, NY 10036

Second photo

That didn't work -- and thanks for NOT letting me know, blogger. So, upon further review, the photo must be less than 50k. Why?

Wait, that wasn't the problem. For some reason I need to have this address:
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg48eRTPu-hfqGxysm3fQVKEe_9QXWDt1b8P-B_xQ9xq0LjiYy_49AGonCoRWSiVoB4J0NErka9Dh8fhAAzAF5XYb14W-158TgrR8VfYZzzoKEeoqLCfASY0GMb32Ay6l5hdl8/s320/jenandme.jpg

Instead of this
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg48eRTPu-hfqGxysm3fQVKEe_9QXWDt1b8P-B_xQ9xq0LjiYy_49AGonCoRWSiVoB4J0NErka9Dh8fhAAzAF5XYb14W-158TgrR8VfYZzzoKEeoqLCfASY0GMb32Ay6l5hdl8/s1600-h/jenandme.jpg

Very confusing. And again, on your profile, you can fill out a bunch of fields -- that are exactly the same on Orkut! Why Google? Why can't all your apps get along, this is simple stuff. Everything is attached to my Google ID.

What I look like

Man, someone at Google needs to start integrating these apps! To post a photo in your profile, you need to link to an existing web page! So, the work around is to create a post and then link back to the posting! Even though I already have my photo uploaded on Orkut. Don't you think they would just autocreate a picasa account for you? so weird.

That's me with my soon to be bride -- T-minus 12 days, 5 hours, and 48 minutes.

You can call me JohnBhai

My brother in law just invited me a to a new social networking site (as if we needed any more!) It's called Yaari and is Desi based. It'll be interesting to see how well it takes on Orkut.

But, the best part is, I was able to get the user name JohnBhai, which is Gujrati for John Boy (I guess Hindi is more commonly transliterated as JohnBahiya). Sweet!

How ghetto is Orkut?

If Facebook is a lexus (clean design, fast), LinkedIn is a Cadillac (big and powerful), what is Orkut? It's ugly, it's has the equivalent of roll down windows (have to manually write e-mail addresses to invite people, no tool to import addresses from your contacts and compare to current users!) and it has the lamest color palette this side of the year 2000.

On the other hand, unsurprisingly, the search is really good. And there is good representation among the Desi population on Orkut.

Doostang, you're insane

More idiocy from Doostang:

Hey John,

Thanks for your email – we’ll let a few pass through (like your’s). Basically our members aren’t coders – mostly finance/entertainment/consulting etc people.

Thanks,

Mareza

Funny, if you run a search for developer or "software engineer" you get more than 1000 hits. Funny that Doostang posts developer jobs on their site. I think it's a condescending attitude -- there are plenty of people in finance and consulting who are coding and providing value.

I'll probably get my profile deleted for posting this, but so what. Doostang isn't going to much a service with ridiculous and illogical rules like this.

No developer jobs on Doostang?

Maybe this is why I got kicked off of Doostang in the past:

Hi John,

I hope that you are well. Please note, Doostang is currently not accepting tech/developer jobs. Since you are a new member, we’ll keep it up for you, however, please do not post such positions in the future. We’ll hopefully be able to handle these in a year or so.

Thanks,

Mareza

I wrote to Mareza to ask why no developer positions (he's the CEO, after all) so hopefully we will find out what the story is.

Booted off of Doostang

For some unknown reason, I was booted off of Doostang today! Ironically, I probably do the least amount of work on that of any social networking site. I still have no idea what obscure policy I broke -- will keep you posted