Monthly Archives: January 2012

Did you know? Technically, LinkedIn invites are personal email from your contacts, not LinkedIn spam

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Tobias Eigen

Yesterday I posted some tips to help deal with unwanted LinkedIn invitations. Today I received another invitation and, out of curiosity, followed the link anonymously in a chrome incognito window (control-click -> open link in incognito window). This allowed me … Continue reading →

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Preventing LinkedIn spam – how it works and tips for the spammer *and* the spammee!

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Tobias Eigen

LinkedIn is an important online tool for professional networking and maintaining a handy and attractive online curriculum vitae (mine is at http://kb2.org/eigencv), but one of its strengths (that so many people use it) is also directly related to one of its … Continue reading →

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-28

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Tobias Eigen

I'm liking my ad for the Africa Roundtable on Bainbridge Island, Washington – Facebook certainly makes it easy to… http://t.co/8FiK5C66 # on my radar – open development technology alliance has a consultation starting up right now. http://t.co/4K0O86gG # I only … Continue reading →

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-21

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Tobias Eigen

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Bookmarked: I want to build this to protect my cat from the local coyotes tweetingcatdoor.com

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Tobias Eigen

http://www.tweetingcatdoor.com/

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Eigen Give You Anything But Love

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Tobias Eigen
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Dramatic view of Mount Ranier today from the Tacoma ferry

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Tobias Eigen
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Amazee shut down on 23 December: did anybody notice?

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Tobias Eigen

I just remembered that in October Amazee Labs announced that it would be shutting down the amazee.com social change platform on 23 December. I blogged about it back then and was quite appalled. I completely forgot to check on the 23rd, … Continue reading →

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