[Today is a brief aside from the 3D world. ]
I miss the old LinkedIn Pulse.
Recently, in an ill-advised attempt to free up some storage space on my iPhone, I deleted the old Pulse app thinking that I would bring it back up after I had finished videotaping my son's baseball game. Well that was a mistake. I came to find out that my old LinkedIn Pulse app was grandfathered through the end of this year but that there is a new Pulse in town and I was told it was better. That is not true. This Pulse is now a curated shell of the old vibrant app.
Back when I was at VeriSign, we had a very similar product which was new at the time, a newsfeeder service that allowed you to crawl the web and find just about any news article that you wanted based on the type of news that you liked. It was ultimately done in by, among other things, a lawsuit brought by one of the large news services who rejected the company's fair use defense. I always wondered how the folks at Pulse had managed to deal with that issue. I wonder now if they ultimately didn't and that's why we now get this curated mini list of articles that LinkedIn wants me to read.
That is not at all what I want. I like flipping through the old Pulse, which is still on my iPad, to decide which of the many articles from my various favorite web sources I want to read. That gave me the sense that I was choosing where to focus my reading time and gave me so many more options than I get now.
Frankly what's left barely has any pulse left at all.
I miss the old LinkedIn Pulse.
Recently, in an ill-advised attempt to free up some storage space on my iPhone, I deleted the old Pulse app thinking that I would bring it back up after I had finished videotaping my son's baseball game. Well that was a mistake. I came to find out that my old LinkedIn Pulse app was grandfathered through the end of this year but that there is a new Pulse in town and I was told it was better. That is not true. This Pulse is now a curated shell of the old vibrant app.
Back when I was at VeriSign, we had a very similar product which was new at the time, a newsfeeder service that allowed you to crawl the web and find just about any news article that you wanted based on the type of news that you liked. It was ultimately done in by, among other things, a lawsuit brought by one of the large news services who rejected the company's fair use defense. I always wondered how the folks at Pulse had managed to deal with that issue. I wonder now if they ultimately didn't and that's why we now get this curated mini list of articles that LinkedIn wants me to read.
That is not at all what I want. I like flipping through the old Pulse, which is still on my iPad, to decide which of the many articles from my various favorite web sources I want to read. That gave me the sense that I was choosing where to focus my reading time and gave me so many more options than I get now.
Frankly what's left barely has any pulse left at all.