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  LinkedIn Users Can Now Call Each Other for Free - donohoe
  http://www.bloomberg.com/article/2012-11-23/a2j1Llk4ww_0.html?goback=.gde_4341443_member_190719509
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  floppydisk
  Hooray! Now that recruiter who really wants to offer me a world class
  position(tm)(r)(c) at a unnamed world class company(tm)(r)(c), just like
  Facebook but located in my metro area, can call me at dinner time to inform me
  of the good news!
  
  Oh, I have to install an app to my phone for this to work. Phew, still safe!
  Just more cross-service account linking, nothing to see here, move along.
  
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  potatolicious
  I really dislike "mystery meat employer" recruiter contacts. Just like
  charities, if I can't research it myself I'm not even a tiny bit interested.
  
  I wonder why this is, is it to prevent the employer and potential employee
  cutting out the middle man? I can say with great confidence that I have
  _never_ responded to any email/LinkedIn contact where the company name is not
  mentioned.
  
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  floppydisk
  I had one nebulous recruiter call my company's front desk and try to get me
  consider taking a position with his talent pool after I ignored his message on
  LinkedIn.
  
  To my limited understanding, the way the recruiting market works is recruiters
  build up a bank of talent they can submit for client jobs and they get a %
  commission of the meat err recruit's base salary as compensation. Ergo, the
  incentive is to build as big a stable of developers as possible that you can
  keep submitting for jobs. I personally ignore all the meat market recruiters
  on LinkedIn, it just gets absurd after a while.
  
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  mikemoka
  plingm users can call for free, this is just clever marketing, it is like if
  skype (free skype to skype calls) lets you check if your facebook contacts are
  skype users and then brags that facebook users can now call for free, seems
  legit :)
  
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  eungyu
  I would be surprised to see this call service take off. Isn't the whole notion
  of using social network like LinkedIn (asynchronously) phone call (synchronous
  and disrupting) alternative in the first place?
  
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  prodigal_erik
  Plingm does have an Android app, I wonder why the press release would hinder
  the network effect by saying it's iPhone-only.
  
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  g-garron
  Now almost every Social Network can make voice call. It may be Twitter's turn.
  
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  joshbert
  Isn't this what Clarify.fm is trying to get resolved in some capacity?
  
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  msh
  Arrggg, more cold calls from recruiters....
  
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  josh2600
  If they have Plingm...
  
  