How did I end up here?
Sometimes, I just casually cruise around LinkedIn, seeing who knows who, and where they work – often clicking off to company and personal websites. Occasionally, I might stumble across something interesting. To show what I mean, here’s something I found just a few minutes ago:
- LinkedIn has company data on DisplayLink.
- We’re in the same building as NetBanx, so I check them out.
- I see that I’m somehow linked to a few employees (mainly via our Techincal Recruiter, but also via contacts I made while out job hunting way back when).
- I click on someone to see how they’re linked to me.
- This guy has a personal site, which I check out.
- Ooh, his front page mentions a nice usability tidbit that I wasn’t aware of, and credits the source
- I check the source
- Discover that the source also makes a verrrry nice looking AWstats “wrapper” that I’m just forwarding to my colleague, as some of our marketing guys use AWstats for Web Analytics.
Crazy stuff eh? 
Jon Combe said,
11 July, 2008 at 10:13 am
It’s a small world. We work in the same building, I sit next to the guy mentioned in point 5), yet I find you from my referrer logs living on a hard disk rapidly rotating somewhere in California.
Nice blog. Thank you very much for the kind words re: my JAWStats project, it is appreciated.
Stray Taoist said,
11 July, 2008 at 10:40 am
What is this, one big third-floor-of-Mount-Pleasant-House love-in?
Phil Wiffen said,
15 July, 2008 at 11:06 am
You’re very welcome Jon
Phil Wiffen said,
15 July, 2008 at 11:07 am
Technically, as I’m on the second floor, it’s just a Mount-Pleasant-House love-in