Category Archives: Bits and pieces

A Small Orange

Posted on June 28, 2007 by bengt

I have today moved the blog from WordPress.com to A Small Orange. WordPress.com works great, the reason I moved to a host of my own is that I wanted more freedom when it comes to themes, plugins and widgets. The … Continue reading →

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XING acquires big Spanish network

Posted on June 22, 2007 by bengt

OPEN Business Club AG (the company behind XING) acquires Neurona, the Spanish market leader for online business networking. Neurona has more than 830,000 membes and is the largest contact online business network in Spain and Latin America. At the OpenBC … Continue reading →

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XING Enters US Market

Posted on June 14, 2007 by bengt

According to openBLOG OPEN Business Club AG, the company behind XING, will co-operate with the US company Zoom Information Inc. ZoomInfo is a business information search engine that indexes the Business Web to quickly find information about industries, companies and … Continue reading →

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Catching up with LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman

Posted on June 7, 2007 by bengt

Catching up with LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman is an interview with LinkedIn founder and angel investor Reid Hoffman. Mercury News venture capital reporter Connie Loizos talks with Reid about where he sees the social networking space headed, as well as his … Continue reading →

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XING has launched Marketplace

Posted on May 25, 2007 by bengt

Yesterday XING launched a new feature called Marketplace. At present Marketplace has the category job openings but there are inactive buttons for services and real estate. All XING users can view postings and search the Marketplace. Posters have the option … Continue reading →

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LinkedIn for Good

Posted on May 23, 2007 by bengt

LinkedIn has started something called LinkedIn For Good. The introduction goes like this: With a network of over 11 million professionals spanning the globe, LinkedIn is an immensely powerful platform. A few of us here decided that we should be … Continue reading →

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Design Inspiration: 56 Most Creative Logos

Posted on May 17, 2007 by bengt

I found the Logo Design Blog while browsing MyBlogLog. Logos are interesting and I found a post titled Design Inspiration: 56 Most Creative Logos. The logos shown, with links to the companies, are a mix of unknown (at least to … Continue reading →

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An open letter to LinkedIn

Posted on May 6, 2007 by bengt

Vincent Wright has posted An Open Letter To Linkedin. The letter starts like this: We’re confused. Some of us are downright dismayed. Even some renown evangelists among us have stopped evangelizing. And others are watching to determine whether or not … Continue reading →

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Blogroll and drum roll

Posted on May 3, 2007 by bengt

I have a blogroll in my menu and I also have a category called blogroll where I post about blogs that I like. A link to a blog does not say anything about why I put it there so I … Continue reading →

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Subscribe by email

Posted on April 21, 2007 by bengt

I have added the functionality to subscribe to my blog using email. My provider is FeedBlitz, a service I have tested on other blogs. All you need to do to get my new posts in your mail is to click … Continue reading →

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