{"id":1470,"date":"2008-06-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hothardware.com\/News\/LinkedIn_The_Social_Site_That_Might_Matter"},"modified":"2008-06-18T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T10:00:00","slug":"linkedin-the-social-site-that-might-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=1470","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn: The Social Site That Might Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook and MySpace perform important functions for their users. But when you get right down to it, they exist and are popular because they are amusements. Serious business is not discussed on a page with glitter fonts and Linkin Park music videos that auto-play. There is a social site that&#8217;s all business &#8211;LinkedIn&#8211; and it&#8217;s received an infusion of $53 million dollars from Bain Capital, who&#8217;ve valued the company overall at a cool $1 billion. Not bad for a site with no videos and hardly any pictures on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook and MySpace perform important functions for their users. But when you get right down to it, they exist and are popular because they are amusements. Serious business is not discussed on a page with glitter fonts and Linkin Park music videos that auto-play. There is a social site that&#8217;s all business &#8211;LinkedIn&#8211; and it&#8217;s received an infusion of $53 million dollars from Bain Capital, who&#8217;ve valued the company overall at a cool $1 billion. Not bad for a site with no videos and hardly any pictures on it. <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=1470\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}