Comments on: LinkedIn launches German site to take the fight to Xing

By: Linkedin dépasse 1 million d’utilisateurs espagnols, à la conquête de l’Europe ?

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:25:59 +0000

[...] premier réseau en Europe. De plus, la boite a presque doublé sa base de membres européens depuis le lancement de son site allemand en février 2009. En revanche, Viadeo et Xing sont toujours les premiers réseaux dans leurs pays [...]

By: mike smith

mike smith — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:19:50 +0000

Because I do business in the German speaking and English speaking worlds I use both sites heavily. Xing is far superior in functionality, and very heavily entrenched.

In my opinion the best Linkedin can hope for with this is to distract Xing with this and keep them focused on DE, thus allowing Linkedin to grab share in other markets (southern Europe). A better strategy in my opinion would be to focus on trying to lock up the rest of the world (LatAM, Asia, AuNZ, India)

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By: blog.benjaminr.info :: Uncategorized :: Social Network Stats for 2009

blog.benjaminr.info :: Uncategorized :: Social Network Stats for 2009 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:51:31 +0000

[...] Xing Xing has 6.5 million users, many of which have paid accounts. [...]

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Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:25:28 +0000

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By: LinkedIn startet sein Business-Netzwerk in Deutschland | Denkwertig

LinkedIn startet sein Business-Netzwerk in Deutschland | Denkwertig — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:15:17 +0000

[...] einen Markt ein, der vom 2003 gegründeten lokalen Platzhirsch Xing bereits gut beackert und nahezu gesättigt sein sollte. Immerhin sind mittlerweile etwa 7 Millionen Mitglieder bei Xing angemeldet, davon [...]

By: Linkedin和Xing的正面交锋 » 北城风光

Linkedin和Xing的正面交锋 » 北城风光 — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 06:16:24 +0000

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By: Ivailo

Ivailo — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:05:32 +0000

I use both Xing and LinkedIn, but to be honest, prefer Xing better and gladly pay my subscription fee (which I noticed is €2/month more now). Still, I don’t really see any room for comparison, as besides the social element, they are not quite comparable as services.

Unlike LinkedIn Xing is much closer to the Eurasian way of thinking, which I doubt LinkedIn will achieve anytime soon, even with an EU manager. Anyway, good luck to them. As long as its useful to me, I won’t be bashing my head in the wall if they eventually outperform Xing.

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Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:22:47 +0000

[...] LinkedIn launches German site to take the fight to Xing, TechCrunch [...]

By: Helge

Helge — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 13:08:59 +0000

I don’t think that LinkedIn will all of a sudden see many new users from Germany. Xing does a good job in managing the platform to improve in small steps.

LinkedIn for me is basically a huge GUI-mess. I don’t want to think about where do I need to click to “LOGOUT” or where tocklick to “EDIT PROFILE” and so on.

For me LinkedIn needs to get these things fixed first. I think Xing could easily attract even more international users if they would add one special feature LinkedIn doesn’t have.

For me the “REPUTATION”-feature of LinkedIn is something which I personally do not want. It’s like a Big Brother of Reputation which forces users to get evaluated by others. It leads to some kind of “Who-has-the-best-LinkedIn-Reputation-race” which I do not want to play. Time can be spent much more useful than actively collecting these often ridiculously awkward reputation-statements.

my 2 cents.

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Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:14:32 +0000

[...] to involve the elimination of 1,500 to 2,000 jobs, well hey, that doesn’t count. LinkedIn launches German competitor to Xing — Professional networking site LinkedIn currently has 9 million [...]

By: Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Feb 5, 2009

Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Feb 5, 2009 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:14:29 +0000

[...] a foothold in Germany as the business social network in that area now has a competitor to take on. LinkedIn is now in German and will expand it’s existing foothold of over 40 translated [...]

By: A Collection of Social Network Stats for 2009

A Collection of Social Network Stats for 2009 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:35:18 +0000

[...] Xing Xing has 6.5 million users, many of which have paid accounts. [...]

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Roundtrip » Lesestoff und News - 5. February 2009 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:05:15 +0000

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LinkedIn German in LIVE! « Psychohistory — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:17:45 +0000

[...] (thank you, Google Translate) some of the local coverage about the launch. I have to admit, TechCrunch gets a special nod that I give to any blog post that references Fight Club [...]

By: XPH

XPH — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:28:04 +0000

Xing is the better of the two but it just hasn’t caught on yet! Linked In has a higher usage rate but it’s changing fast…

By: SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 4, 2009

SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 4, 2009 — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:07:13 +0000

[...] LinkedIn launches German site to take the fight to Xing, TechCrunch [...]

By: Will Big Fish In a Small Pond Survive? « iSearchlight

Will Big Fish In a Small Pond Survive? « iSearchlight — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:58:11 +0000

[...] announced that they are moving into Germany with localized version of the service, which puts them on a collision course with Xing, the largest professional networking site in Germany. The clash between global giant and [...]

By: Social Networking Watch

Social Networking Watch — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:25:54 +0000

LinkedIn Launches In Germany…

TECH CRUNCH — Feb 4 — LinkedIn is launching a dedicated site for Germany. LinkedIn had significant growth in Spain and France last year – 200,000 users in two months and France hit 700,000. It has a an existing 500,000……

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Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:30:43 +0000

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By: Achtung, Maybe? LinkedIn to Take on German Xing Network | MMM

Achtung, Maybe? LinkedIn to Take on German Xing Network | MMM — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:01:52 +0000

[...] is about to launch a site dedicated to the German market. This is significant because local social network Xing [...]

By: Stefan

Stefan — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:03:57 +0000

Im German and using linkedIn as well as Xing. In my opinion xing is the much better platform, pricing makes much more sense (on linkedIN you have to pay per mail so that makes pretty clear that a lot of spam is going on) and has an active community.

Still, I hope one of the two wins the fight as updating 2 networks is a pain in the …

By: Steve Nimmons

Steve Nimmons — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:11:37 +0000

I’ve tried LinkedIn and Xing and eventually gave up on Xing. I found LinkedIn much more relevant and had much better groups. Cant someone create an ‘overarching’ framework / service so we can internetwork between all of these social hubs? Please!!!?

By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:01:29 +0000

Interesting. Waiting for the same article about Viadeo and LinkedIn as the situation is pretty similar in France, except that Xing is ten times better than Viadeo!