Pulse Joins the LinkedIn Family

I don't understand LinkedIn (anymore).<p>Their business model seems to be to source candidates to recruiters. This may be good for recruiters, but for candidates? I'm not so sure. It's certainly better to have an overall strong online presence (Twitter / Github (if relevant) / personal blog) than contacts on LinkedIn that don't mean anything.<p>Groups are full of spam.<p>The website is incredibly unresponsive.<p>They bought the excellent IndexTank technology and team a while ago, and promptly shut it down (the tech was open sourced though, which is more than can be said for a lot of acquisitions).<p>It seems they only keep on living because people are somewhat afraid to delete their profile; but everything inside LinkedIn feels dead.<p>And now Pulse. Who would go to LinkedIn for news??<p>Pulse says "The company shares (...) our belief in the power of knowledge and elevated discussion".<p>Elevated discussion? On LinkedIn? Come on!

Congrats to the pulse founders for entering the millionaire club.<p>Sucks that they have to pretend to be excited about joining LinkedIn and likely suffer there for a few years, but every rose has a thorn.

Apparently, LinkedIn paid them 90M - <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/11/linkedin-acquires-pulse-for-90m-in-stock-and-cash/" rel="nofollow">http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/11/linkedin-acquires-pulse-for...</a><p>Wow. There are so many RSS readers but congrats to Pulse team on executing well.<p>How it fits into LinkedIn's product roadmap?

I love Pulse. They built a great app and I'm really happy for them, so this isn't a critique, but were they really worth 90M? I get that most of it was in stock, but damn.<p>I guess it was more of a team/userbase acquisition, similar to the Dropbox/Mailbox deal. Either way, congrats guys!

I'm optimistic because I love Pulse and Linkedin has definitely been pushing into the news feed space so it makes a lot of sense.<p>Slightly concerned though because of what happened to CardMunch.<p>Either way, grats to the pulse team!

Way to go Akshay Kothari!

I love Pulse, it's my favorite mobile news reader by far.

I hope they do a better job with Pulse than they have with Rapportive

Congrats to the pulse team. Also, dammit.

Great stuff from the pulse guys!

congrats, guys!