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"LinkedIn will become the MySpace of hiring"

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I deleted my http://geekli.st account after the way they treated Shanley Kane (http://storify.com/charlesarthur/oh-hai-sexism).

Even though they issued an apology and a clear PR exercise of devoting months to 'Women in Tech' it couldn't change the attitude displayed by Christian Sanz and Reuben Katz.

Will I regret my decision to delete my account? Maybe. Thankfully there are other alternatives out there like http://coderwall.com.

Thanks Vertis, we've done much since then to help make the tech industry a better place for women including this successful event in Paris http://railsgirls.com/paris and http://geekli.st/gklst/we-are-creating-a-women-in-technology... and sponsorship of many great events like: http://geekli.st/estelle/the-attendees-for-confident-coding-...

There was the sexist aspect and then there was an aspect of just attacking/disrespecting someone on twitter.

I care very little for the PR actions you've taken to rescue the geekli.st image, and more about the lessons you both learned.

Did you both apologise to Shanley in private? Because it matters more to me what you do when people aren't watching.

Wow. What a disgraceful exchange. The 'apology' that not-so-subtly implies Shanley has an agenda because they didn't employ her doesn't exactly exude contrition, or class.

It's promo material for Geeklist it seems.

Tried signing in with twitter but they want too many privileges:

This application will be able to: Read Tweets from your timeline. See who you follow, and follow new people. Update your profile. Post Tweets for you.

hi piggity, you can sign in using an email and new username and password

I have dedicated Facebook and Twitter accounts for the sole purpose of third party authentication.

https://twitter.com/#!/LoganLoginski :D

No it won't - I've yet to receive an interesting offer through LinkedIn. In fact, it's nothing but recruiter drivel. Any interesting offers have always come via my inbox..

Agreed. The only real value I find in LinkedIn is keeping in contact with old colleagues.

er, being the "MySpace of <X>" is not supposed to be a compliment...

Once again Hacker New has removed an article about us from the front page as it was gaining up votes and a vibrant stream of comments starting up. Silencing startups in the press is not the way, could it be because there is a YC company trying to copy/compete with us? Nice. Done.

I had this comment page open in its own tab, and was surprised to check and see that, in fact, the article had abruptly vanished from the front page. Interesting, and even a bit concerning. Around here, you never know how much of an article's success/failure is due to popularity or human intervention.

At this point it's top of page 3. Normally when mods kill it, it just disappears. I suspect in this case the overt marketing and reubenelli's whiny, entitled tone are encouraging people to flag it. It's only at 8 points, so I doubt it takes too many flags to drive it down the stack.

edit: also, geekli.st is busted on chrome; very few of the images on the front page are loading (works fine in Firefox).

anthony, could you screenshot the 'busted in chrome' issue and send to us at info@geekli.st? Should be working smoothly! Whatever the reason, it was one of europes leading writers on tech who interviewed and did the article. i suppose if someone writes a positive article it's overt marketing. Thanks for being on geeklist and let us know if you find more bugs! cheers!

Sent.

Well, it looks like a standard PR puff piece to me - I'm not sure (from that article plus looking at geekli.st) exactly what the draw is, other than publishing stuff on the web? I can do that on my own site.

Plus your design kinda sucks, usability-wise - massive fonts, huge whitespace and line spacing mean that I can see the cards from my secret moonbase lair. I also have to scroll, even on a 1920x1080 monitor, and squint, because your colors are like, #999 on #EEE.

You also need to figure out a way to get people to fill in details about their cards, or kill the extra info part. Every card says "I did 'X', details: <no info> with: <no contributors>". (That's not a bug in Chrome, I just checked in Firefox too). So if you can't get one of the founding technical guys from Skype to brag a bit more (http://geekli.st/taavet/helped-grow-skype-from-zero-to-first...), what's going on?

I've received the following error when trying to register: "Found Errors: Screen Name has invalid characters"

Which is bizarre since the username, email address, password all seem to pass the validation test.

The Screen Name in case you were wondering was simply my "firstname.lastname" and it's not an obsence amount of characters (4.9 char)

The article smells like geekli.st promotion; any other linkedin alternatives?

And where have the 2011 side-line syndicates gone? The StackOverflow careers and the one that turned up on thedailywtf.com etc? Are they relevant?

Personally I think that this could be the perfect niche for Google+ as the Facebook for grown-ups and a career networking tool. Especially now they've started hooking up author attribution into search results.

But MySpace got superceeded by everything else, so maybe this is right. The whole password snafu is still lingering a bad taste in many mouths.

Eventualy we will just have CV brokers :|

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