Sometimes, I just casually cruise around LinkedIn, seeing who knows who, and where they work – often clicking off to company and personal websites. Occasionally, I might stumble across something interesting. To show what I mean, here’s something I found just a few minutes ago:
- LinkedIn has company data on DisplayLink.
- We’re in the same building as NetBanx, so I check them out.
- I see that I’m somehow linked to a few employees (mainly via our Techincal Recruiter, but also via contacts I made while out job hunting way back when).
- I click on someone to see how they’re linked to me.
- This guy has a personal site, which I check out.
- Ooh, his front page mentions a nice usability tidbit that I wasn’t aware of, and credits the source
- I check the source
- Discover that the source also makes a verrrry nice looking AWstats “wrapper” that I’m just forwarding to my colleague, as some of our marketing guys use AWstats for Web Analytics.
Crazy stuff eh? 🙂
It’s a small world. We work in the same building, I sit next to the guy mentioned in point 5), yet I find you from my referrer logs living on a hard disk rapidly rotating somewhere in California. 🙂
Nice blog. Thank you very much for the kind words re: my JAWStats project, it is appreciated.
What is this, one big third-floor-of-Mount-Pleasant-House love-in?
You’re very welcome Jon 🙂
Technically, as I’m on the second floor, it’s just a Mount-Pleasant-House love-in 😉