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Comment on New LinkedIn Feature: Viewers Of This Profile Also Viewed by Adam Nash

Adam Nash — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:50:36 +0000

No worries, Susan. I do, in fact, have a great deal of knowledge about LinkedIn (as I should, given my day job…)

I apologize if you’ve had trouble getting an answer directly from LinkedIn.

There is always overlap in life, but I’ve tried as much as possible to keep this blog a personal blog. From time to time I post about new features at LinkedIn that I’m excited about, but in general, I try to redirect Q&A about LinkedIn features and policy to official channels.

Take care,
Adam

Comment on The Secret to Reformatting a Western Digital WD 1TB My Book External Hard Drive by Juan Carlos Alicea

Juan Carlos Alicea — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:58:37 +0000

It still works. Thanks.

Comment on New LinkedIn Feature: Viewers Of This Profile Also Viewed by Susan

Susan — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:32:44 +0000

Hi Adam,

If you will notice, the title at the top of your blog is “New LinkedIn Feature: Viewers Of This Profile Also Viewed.”

By your very posting, you have indicated you have a great deal of knowledge about LinkedIn. The verbiage seems to be tracked on google, where I originally did a search for my answer.

Secondarily, if it was possible to get an answer from LinkedIn, TRUST me, I would have directed the answer to them.

My sincerest apologies for putting you out,

Susan

Comment on New LinkedIn Feature: Viewers Of This Profile Also Viewed by Adam Nash

Adam Nash — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:37:52 +0000

It’s somewhat strange, but this blog post seems to be attracting a lot of traffic (and questions) all of a sudden. It’s a blog post from almost 18 months ago.

At the risk of being rude, this is my personal blog, so I don’t really want to turn the comment stream into official LinkedIn Q&A.

I would encourage people posting questions to direct them towards the official LinkedIn blog post (I reference it in the article) or if the matter is serious, contact LinkedIn customer service (the link is on the footer of every page of the site).

I do thank you for the interest, and hope that the information I provided was at least somewhat helpful.

Adam

Comment on LinkedIn Hacks: Advanced Search Operators by Adam Nash

Adam Nash — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:32:00 +0000

You can do that search, but there is a bug right now where it doesn’t handle “present company” and “past company” correctly – we should have it fixed in a few weeks.

Comment on New LinkedIn Feature: Viewers Of This Profile Also Viewed by Adam Nash

Adam Nash — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:28:20 +0000

Susan, if people who viewed your profile also visited those other people’s profiles, then they will show up. It’s a display of other user’s activity, not your own.

Adam

Comment on New LinkedIn Feature: Viewers Of This Profile Also Viewed by Adam Nash

Adam Nash — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:26:43 +0000

Nada, I believe that the feature does respect our privacy settings. If not, please contact our customer service, and they will help remove you.

Comment on New LinkedIn Feature: Viewers Of This Profile Also Viewed by Susan Tate

Susan Tate — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:30:48 +0000

Hi Adam!

I’ve searched far and wide for an answer but you seem like the LinkedIn guru. I’d appreciate a reply as I’m stumped.

To get to the point, on my LinkedIn page under “Viewers of this profile also viewed…” there are names I would rather not see.

Do you happen to know how to remove those?

Thanks so much in advance,

Susan

Comment on New LinkedIn Feature: Viewers Of This Profile Also Viewed by Nada

Nada — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:56:35 +0000

Adam, I’m very disappointed!!!!!!!!!

The feature “Viewers of this profile also viewed” is against privacy. Why people should see which profile I visit?
My setting in Account and Settings->Privacy Settings->Profile Views has always been as below
“Not show the user that you even viewed their profile”

But if I go on some new profiles I visited, everybody can see my name in the feature “Viewers of this profile also viewed.”
Where is the privacy???? Please allow me the possibility to disable it I’ll leave Linkedin.

And in any case you should refresh it more than one time per day.
Thanks and regards

Nada

Comment on How to Mount your Blackberry Pearl 8100 MicroSD on Mac OS X by mundo

mundo — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:31:03 +0000

I tried the steps in original post. They did not work for me. I have Curve 8900. However, the post from EricS Mark/Space Engineering, indicating to change the configuration on the Blackberry solved the problem

Comment on Proof That Microsoft Did Not Copy Vista from Apple Mac OS X by mundo

mundo — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:53:08 +0000

The answer is obvious, MAC OS works flawlessly, Vista, to use Hank Paulson’s words, is the “turd in the punchbowl.” Vista is a terrible operating system. If they copied it, they missed the part about making it work.

Comment on How to Convert MKV to MP4 on Mac OS X by 1-more-thing » Blog Archive » MKV zu MP4 konvertieren - blog by david j. koster

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:22:44 +0000

[...] gesucht, diese möglichst kostenlos ins MP4 (h.264) Format zu konvertieren. Am Ende es war doch garnicht so schwer: HandBrake unterstützt MKV Dateien als Quelle. Folglich kann mein Tutorial Videobearbeitung am Mac [...]

Comment on Problems with the New Star Trek Movie Reboot by Niles

Niles — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:42:02 +0000

Spoken like a true trekkie…

Comment on Ask Not For Whom the IRS Bell Tolls, It Tolls for eBay… by Auction Typos

Auction Typos — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:49:17 +0000

Very nice information. Thanks for letting me know about these tools. Trying to build up my eBay business with these.

Comment on Problems with the New Star Trek Movie Reboot by David Roman

David Roman — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:59:02 +0000

Thank you for inciting a well needed conversation. This helped put my thoughts into perspective. I too seem to be in the minority of movie goers that wasn’t overly enchanted with the movie. I liked it, but it could have been less clunky overall.

I agree with LBarndt, they really did very little to stop the Romulans overall and seemed to not take the whole first incident very seriously. Anyways, I could go on and on. Thanks again!

Comment on LinkedIn Hacks: Advanced Search Operators by Ken

Ken — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:43:52 +0000

sorry for repost but forgot to check the notify me by email
of followup comments, so reposting …

Can one do advanced search like the following – it does not
seem to work for me but perhaps am getting syntax not correct ?

all people who now work at company A AND who worked in past at company B

there are adv operators pcompany and ccompany but yet
in regular advanced search choices are only for either
previous company or current company or both — but
if both would just return people who now or in past worked
at the chosen companies,

NOT those who now work at company A AND who worked
in past at company B

Any suggestions ?

Comment on Yes, You Can Get 1080P out of a Mac Mini by peter

peter — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:16:26 +0000

Hey

I am going to buy Mac mini with Intel Core 2 Duo Processor 1.83GHz. All mini can play 1080p files, right? I want to use it as a HTPC.

Thanks.

—–
Peter from http://www.dealsvista.net

Comment on Once again, the web is safe for “adamnash” by Adam Nash

Adam Nash — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:45:44 +0000

Wow. Another Adam Nash… from 1976? I barely have a year on you. Do you have a linkedin profile?

Profoundly curious,
Adam

Comment on Once again, the web is safe for “adamnash” by Adam Nash

Adam Nash — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:52:18 +0000

Come on Adam, budge up the bed a bit. And you can feel a little more guilty. I’ve been Adam Nash since 1976. Still can’t get a good adamnash username anywhere and half the time they are taken with somebody who bears no resemblance to the name Adam Nash either.

The eerie thing is, I’m also from a computer science background, and I’m a unix programmer. I don’t use Facebook, Twitter or Ebay though so you’re safe with those ,)

Maybe our paths will cross again in the near online future. Good luck with the blog.

Comment on The Secret to Reformatting a Western Digital WD 1TB My Book External Hard Drive by kollektor

kollektor — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:28:41 +0000

Thanks, Adam. It might be simple but I never would have got there without this tip.

Comment on Problems with the New Star Trek Movie Reboot by Bret Egan

Bret Egan — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:34:37 +0000

I am not a trekkie, but grew up as the son of a trekkie, so I know a couple of things about the TOS. First off, I recall there were several episodes that included Spock’s mother, yet she dies in the movie?

I agree, the Montgomery Scott coincidence is lame. How can the bridge be more technologically superior in this enterprise than on the TOS enterprise?

If future spock said kirks dad was at the graduation from starfleet, why wasnt kirks dad there at the end, even after they went through the black hole, changing the time continuiim?

Comment on Adam Nash, Timber Investor by Timber Interview: Adam Nash « Psychohistory

Timber Interview: Adam Nash « Psychohistory — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:26:26 +0000

[...] I didn’t realize at the time I wrote this blog post in January 2008 was that my entire interview was actually posted online. That’s right. You can read the [...]

Comment on Why I love Timber as an Asset Class by Timber Interview: Adam Nash « Psychohistory

Timber Interview: Adam Nash « Psychohistory — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:26:19 +0000

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Comment on Once again, the web is safe for “adamnash” by Micah Alpern

Micah Alpern — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:38:11 +0000

Adam, wouldn’t it be great if there was a service that would negotiate transferring usernames for you?

I’m “malpern” on most services, but in a few places someone else beat me to the punch.

Comment on Problems with the New Star Trek Movie Reboot by diana

diana — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:15:52 +0000

overall this movie was about rebooting the franchise. bottom line-money.
adhering to canon was thrown out years ago and to hell with the opinions of the fandom. my big gaping hole in the story is the fact that kirk’s parents were a bit older than portrayed and he had an older brother named sam. he was about 10 years older than kirk. in the original series, “operation: annihiliate ” kirks older brother sam and his family are victims of the flying brain cells. his brother and sister-in-law are killed and only his nephew remained.

what did they do with sam?

Comment on Once again, the web is safe for “adamnash” by Mike

Mike — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:21:46 +0000

Thanks for the info!

Congratulations on your name

I got my name as the username.

You don’t need 1,000 Fans to get your own username.

Your Facebook account must be registered before June 9 as the only criteria.

Mike

Comment on From Smallville to Star Trek by r4

r4 — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:46:08 +0000

Exactly Star war characters are wonderful.

Comment on How to Fix SMTP Errors from Yahoo/AT&T DSL on Mac OS X Mail by larry

larry — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:57:22 +0000

This doesn’t work now. I went thru the whole deal, and it finished up telling me I could now use my server as ‘From’ in yahoo webmail.

not what i wanted.

anyone figger this out?

Comment on How to Delete Individual Backups from Apple Time Machine by E

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:59:41 +0000

Thank you! Worked well. I appreciate it.

(What happens if you click on “Delete all backups of… ” ?)

Comment on How to Delete Individual Backups from Apple Time Machine by Rob

Rob — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 06:42:36 +0000

One of the clever things Time Machine does is hard-linking every unchanged file or folder to the previous change. Because of this, each revision of the backup is essentially a full backup. When you delete any one version, it just deletes those hard links. Thus, if any other hard links exist, the data remains in the filesystem.