jeffwidman

Yes, I use LinkedIn all the time to figure out who in my network knows someone else, so that I can background check someone before I walk into a meeting or ask for them to send a backchannel recommendation. Not for hiring, but for various other kinds of business deals. I don't use it at all for the social network stuff--I find that a complete waste of time. As a network map + living resume of people I'm meeting with it's fantastic.

This. I use LinkedIn all the time to identify who in my network is connected to the person I'm trying to reach.

As another Ansible user contemplating the 1.9-->2.0 migration, I'd appreciate if you would submit PRs updating the porting guide with stuff that you hit that wasn't already mentioned:https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/docsite/rst/po...

> Lektor belongs to a separate org and the project does not use any resources only I have access to (other than the domain name and the server travis-CI deploys to).

Really appreciate you starting it out this way from the getgo.

> Because I run so many Open Source projects and maintenance of all of them turns out to be tricky I figured I do this better this time around.

Looking forward to seeing Flask & Flask-SQLAlchemy moved to a dedicated Flask org on github. Ideally with another person or two having Pypi creds for pushing releases.

SQLAlchemy - Great docs, well programmed, very extensible/flexible/powerful.

I'd be curious to see this as well

There is also the "poor man's nest" - the Filtrete 3M 50 which is $89 on Ebay and fully wifi supported with a well-documented API and fantastic Android app:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1311.R...

This really shouldn't be a surprise as there are generally very smart people on both sides of polarizing issues.

I know a lot of smart people, myself included, who read HN regularly and oppose gay marriage.

On the one hand, you're completely right.

On the other, who better to say "You just don't understand the power of the platform" than someone who sees the numbers on over 10,000 Facebook pages with more than 1Billion Facebook fans?

If Cuban said "I don't understand the platform" that's one thing, but saying "This platform doesn't work" is claiming it's not an education problem, it's a platform power problem

We live in an attention economy, and Facebook is simply the arbiter of it. If Facebook let all fan pages reach all their fans, it'd be a sub-optimal user experience.

The fact that they have turned protecting against the tragedy of the commons into a monetization model may not make brands happy, but it makes users happy.

For those who don't know what EdgeRank is, start with this primer: http://edgerank.net/

Not sure what you mean here.

Do you mean when will we offer G+ analytics, or confusing us with website analytics? (we measure social media)

on LinkedIn, twitter couldn't control the inventory, so they couldn't monetize the content.

It was their tradeoff of reducing usage while users are on LI, while hopefully increasing consumption on their own site from those users.

It's certainly a gamble, since I'd argue that LI was more a source of new twitter users rather than siphoning off views from already loyal twitter users.

The other possible threat in Twitter's head might have been LI bootstrapping their newsfeed off Twitter (which they'd mostly been doing) and then growing it large enough to actively compete with Twitter.

Twitter wants to "own" the consumer end of the experience so they can monetize it with display ads.

If you watch over the past six months, they've actively encouraged third-party publishers so businesses get more invested in twitter, while simultaneously discouraging third-party consumer-focused clients.

The question in my head about this data:

Is the spike because LinkedIn traffic actually spiked, or was it just getting misattributed as Twitter traffic?

PageLever (YC S11) - San Francisco - Hiring non-technical person who wants to learn business side of a tech startup

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3778290