{"id":1290,"date":"2007-11-15T07:23:51","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T13:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/11\/linkedin-on-topfor-now\/"},"modified":"2007-11-15T06:25:20","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T12:25:20","slug":"linkedin-on-topfor-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/11\/linkedin-on-topfor-now\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn On Top&#8230;For Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/publications.mediapost.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.san&amp;s=71069&amp;Nid=36418&amp;p=912836\">Online Media Daily has a news brief<\/a> regarding the fastest growing social networking sites.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AMONG TOP SOCIAL NETWORKS, LINKED-IN was the fastest-growing over the last year, according to October ratings released Wednesday by Nielsen Online.<\/p>\n<p>The site geared toward professional users drew 4.9 million visitors last month, up from 1.7 million a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Other fast-growing social networks included kiddie site Club Penguin, up 157% to 3.8 million users, and Facebook, more than doubling its audience to 19.5 million in the last year. MySpace remained the top social network with 58.8 million users, up 19% from 2006.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>LinkedIn was the fastest growing, but it seems like Facebook is the site to watch.\u00a0 Whichever way it plays out, I would recommend putting your information on both sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online Media Daily has a news brief regarding the fastest growing social networking sites.\u00a0 AMONG TOP SOCIAL NETWORKS, LINKED-IN was the fastest-growing over the last year, according to October ratings released Wednesday by Nielsen Online. The site geared toward professional users drew 4.9 million visitors last month, up from 1.7 million a year ago. Other fast-growing social networks included kiddie site Club Penguin, up 157% to 3.8 million users, and Facebook, more than doubling its audience to 19.5 million in the last year. MySpace remained the top social network with 58.8 million users, up 19% from 2006. LinkedIn was the fastest growing, but it seems like Facebook is the site&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/11\/linkedin-on-topfor-now\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[33],"tags":[52,51,53],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-facebook","tag-linkedin","tag-social-networking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-kO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1746,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/10\/linkedin-registrations-booming\/","url_meta":{"origin":1290,"position":0},"title":"LinkedIn Registrations Booming","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"October 3, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Seems like LinkedIn is benefiting from the recent financial industries crisis.\u00a0 According to a post at Cheezhead they have had significant increases in registrations and in recommendations: The site has reported a 17 percent increase in registrations in the last two weeks. 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However, this German law does provide a bit more detail: For example, employers\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1202,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/09\/ms-facebook\/","url_meta":{"origin":1290,"position":4},"title":"MS Facebook","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"September 25, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"From the rumor mill: Setting the stage for a possible bidding battle, Microsoft Corp. is mulling an investment in Facebook Inc. that would value the rapidly growing online hangout at $10 billion or more, according to a report published Monday. 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