Last week, a bombshell hit the technological planet: LinkedIn purchased by Microsoft. Some users asked, what is LinkedIn?
Quickly the LinkedIn is the largest professional social network in the world with 400 millions of users. Its main objective is to enable registered members to establish and document networks of contacts they know and trust professionally.
Understand how it works.
Online social networks are websites where users create personal profiles, look for friends or contacts. There are many social networks around many themes; sharing videos, images, music, blogs, for many purposes like Facebook, and lastly Professionals like LinkedIn, which is aimed at business professionals, differs from other social networks because it focuses on business, from finding work to potential partners in business, other than sharing photos, videos and music.
It was founded in May 2003 by Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue, Jean-Luc Vaillant and Konstantin Guericke. The final product that is the number one destination worldwide for professional social networking that we have access to today, is the result of the work of Stamford graduates; Hoffman and Guericke, who started planning their professional online network in 1990. If you want to be part of this network click here .
