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LinkedIn have come on in leaps and bounds in 2009 and still have 76 million in D round VC money sitting untouched in the bank during a year where the ‘Clue Train Manifesto’ conversation got increasingly cannibalized to justify word of mouth marketing exploitation of social networks.

There’s a clear path to an IPO for LinkedIn to compete and grow on this world stage. Facebook meanwhile appears to be struggling to change your user rules in order to allow commercial exploitation of your personal content and interests as part of their business model, while profiting from time wasting games and gimmicks developers for the rest.:courtesy:zdnet: