Randy Weber

Linkedin’s IPO reminded me of this e-mail that they sent out a few months back. Turns out I was one of the first people to join Linkedin. I was member number 12,889. I use it a lot and really like what they’ve done over the years.

The fat wizard shows up on Linkedin whenever the site is down. I’ve been seeing this a lot over the years. A lot more than on other sites. I really love Linkedin. I wish they could keep their site up more during waking hours.

Update:  Since Linkedin came back up, I have lost 3 million people from my network while my 1st degree contacts stayed the same. Also, 2 new cities have taken over as the leading regions. How does this happen? Was it broken before and fixed now or working before and broken now?

Update 2:  Since my last update, I ran across this. It seems that Linkedin is taking a more aggressive stance against users with lots of links. Many of these users have seen their networks mysteriously shrink. There’s a conflict between Linkedin’s philosophy of only linking to people that you know and the philosophy of “open networkers” that link to as many people as possible. Looks like my shrinking network was deliberate and not an error.