Tag Archives: linkedin

October 24, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Paying It Forward–On Connecting

By Ben Kepes

In my work I meet with hundreds of people from different parts of the technology world. I talk with marketing, PR and AR folks a lot, and I also spend a bunch of time talking with operations and technology folks. My LinkedIn connection list (not that I’d ever give quantity

Tagged Business card, linkedin |

June 1, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Rainmaker – Augmenting Contact Data

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written before about Jigsaw, the contact aggregation and data cleansing service that is now owned by salesforce.com. While I was at Glue conference I took some time to meet with Dan Lynn, the co-founder of Rainmaker. Rainmaker is a contact management API that takes information form contact lists, as

Tagged Data cleansing, Jigsaw, linkedin, rainmaker, Rapportive, Xobni Insight |

June 20, 2008 Posted in Business, IT, New business, Strategy, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Reid Hoffman on Web 2.0

By Ben Kepes

Sarah Lacy interviews Reid Hoffman to get his read on Web 2.0 business. The interview was recorded on the same day that LinkedIn had an outage so Sarah asks the obvious questions around outages and the harm they can do to a start-up. Sarah also asked Reid who he thought

Tagged Facebook, linkedin, reid hoffman |

June 13, 2008 Posted in Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 1 Comment

LinkedIn replacing email? No time soon…

By Ben Kepes

Over on RWW, Bernard posted suggesting that LinkedIn is both a Gmail and an Outlook killer. His rationale seems to come from the fact that LinkedIn mail is always up to date (as member update their own records it doesn’t rely on first a contact remembering to notify a change

Tagged email, gmail, linkedin, outlook, zimbra |

Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.