Vincent Wright has received a “trademark infringement” letter from LinkedIn.
Now that is hubris on the part of LinkedIn.
Vincent is the “godfather” of a ton of groups LinkedIn_XXXXX (i.e., power users, bloggers, moderators, plaxo, vets). And, has single handly been LinkedIn’s cheerleader.
This is not the first time that LinkedIn has bitten it’s users with its psycho change in policy. When they were first pandering for users, they wanted you to spread the word and link to everyone you knew. Then after a year or eighteen months, they wanted “exclusivity” so they, with zero notice, imposed the “five i don’t knows and you’re suspended” policy. Vincent single handedly calmed a revolt.
When they blew their service about groups, Vincent was a calming influence.
Eventually Vincent decided to deploy his considerable energy to more worthwhile pursuits. And, I don’t blame him.
Now, LinkedIn is worried about its trademark? They get my “that sucks” award. Trademark that!
(I’m waiting for my trademark letter as well for LinkedInJaspers.)
Guess they don’t think they need that buzz from all those local groups like LinkedIn_State, like my LinkedIn_NewJersey. Makes those folks, who decided to compete by going to LinkTo_NewYork, look like geniuses.
Well, if I was the VCs buying LinkedIn, I’d look at this tired old whore’s teeth. I’ll be deemphasizing LinkedIn.
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007 at
[...] just wonders if LinkedIn has a trademark infringement team ready to protect their new trademark. In-N-Out just better not get into the business [...]
Sunday, September 7, 2008 at
It seems to me that Linkedin is deliberately trying to run itself into the ground.
No customer service response, no explanations before or after so-called upgrades, plus a systematic elimination of communication tools.
What is this, the Bush administration!!!!!!
Monday, December 29, 2008 at
You are absolutly correct.. these linkedin people are acting strange.. they know that they have the all the users hook on to them and they can stir them as and where they may wish..
Initially when we used to search for anytime we could exhaust all the search results but now there is a limit of viewing only 100 serach results.. suckers… they would one day go down… hell with them…
Tuesday, December 30, 2008 at
Right now, they are the game. I’m waiting for a competitor to show up.