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LinkedIn shuttle throws employees' privacy under the bus

Owen Thomas — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:00:00 EDT

A correction on our previous post about LinkedIn's financial woes: Contrary to our tipster's assertions, plenty of LinkedIn employees use the company-provided shuttle bus from San Francisco to Mountain View. The bus even has its own Twitter account. That account is private — but it links to a public, annotated route map on Google Maps. CEO Dan Nye and marketing VP Patrick Crane, among others, have their home addresses listed. Other employees have left notes, in plain view, about their commuting preferences. "Your privacy is our top concern," LinkedIn's privacy policy states. But if the company is so slapdash about guarding its own employees, can it really be trusted to protect users? Here's an embedded version of the map:

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"Daily Show"-style LinkedIn video schools Yahoo on product marketing

Nicholas Carlson — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:20:00 EDT

In case our "idiot's guide to fixing Yahoo" wasn't clear enough on Yahoo's need for a clearerproduct strategy, here's a clip from LinkedIn that might serve as an example. Sure, it's cheesy, but skip to 2:40 and suddenly you've got customers explaining to viewers what LinkedIn is to them and why its crucial that they use it. When's the last time anyone's said that about Yahoo? Not to mention that LinkedIn's VP of marketing, Patrick Crane, came to the company from Yahoo.

LinkedIn makes another hire from Yahoo: Anil...

Owen Thomas — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:44:24 EDT

LinkedIn makes another hire from Yahoo: Anil Khatri, a VP of engineering for advertising systems. Tell us, readers: Is he as nasty as Patrick Crane? [SFGate.com]

A "nasty" new hire

wagger1 — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:17:22 EDT

Talent flows like the tides in Silicon Valley, with executives flocking to the hit companies and leaving the duds high and dry. Which is why we guessed, correctly, that TiVo's Steve Sordello was headed to LinkedIn, and why we weren't surprised to hear that Yahoo vice president Patrick Crane is also joining the hot business-networking website as its vice president of marketing. But we wonder how much due diligence LinkedIn did on the execs that just washed up on its shore.One Valleywag commenter claims Crane, a protege of Jeff Weiner, is "truly nasty." If you have details on why someone might say that of Crane, who looks mostly harmless in this Flickr photo, do tell.