XING groups listed on Linqia!

We have the pleasure to announce that XING is one of Linqia's launch partners.



XING is a business community from Hamburg, founded in 2003. XING hosts more than 7.800 groups - 4.407 of them you can already find on Linqia.

The majority of users comes from Germany, however, XING is already used by people from over 190 countries. Available languages include English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Dutch, Chinese, Finnish, Swedish, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Turkish and Hungarian.

XING enables its members to discover professional people, opportunities and privileges through its capability and advanced contact management tools. The community offers personal profiles, sub-groups, discussion forums, event coordination, and other common social networking features. The multilingual groups and forums also give members access to industry-specific expertise and allow them to exchange ideas and perspectives.

XING is used predominantly to search for new business partners, initiating new business contacts, opening up new markets, finding partnership opportunities and for setting up and managing existing business relations.

Please read find further information on Linqia's XING Profile.

Interesting XING groups on Linqia:
Global Business Women
Dropping knowledge
Amazing Dreamers
After Work Golf
New York and Washington sponsored by TransatlanticIR

Connecting entrepreneurs in developing countries to communities in developing worlds

The Trestle Group Foundation is another inspiration for the social vision of Linqia. Here is a video of the foundation working with female entrepreneur Luna Shamsuddoha in Bangladesh having connected her to people in developing countries. We can see a direct coloration of how online communities can provide people, knowledge and opportunities to people in developing countries. It's only a matter of time before these people in developing countries start on a grand scale to gather and collaborate in online communities. And connections is what they will need.

A unique approach to category sponsorship

Weblin, ESADE, AutoScout24 and BuyVIP are all category launch sponsors at Linqia.

What's so special about being a launch sponsor?

Beyond the usual 'branding' exposure throughout the Linqia site (logo on home page, advertisement on every group profile in chosen category and search results), sponsors will be introduced to every community leader within their sponsored category as Linqia begins the claiming process.

Shortly, Linqia will commence establishing contact with every moderator of selected communities and groups inviting them to claim their profile at Linqia and at the same time will be asked whether they are interested in a value added relationship with their category sponsor.

To date, it's been very challenging for brands to connect with smaller niche communities and groups and visa versa. Linqia aims to open this channel up. If you are interested in learning more about sponsoring a key category at Linqia and being introduced to 1000's of community and group leaders please contact us.

Push the button!

"Launch it Andy!" 9pm Wednesday night Christian finally pushes the button. 6,523 listings - mainly from our community launch partners XING, Ecademy and a lengthy list Edwina and Fredi have been compiling for the last three months.

Daniela calls from home after lying in bed all day with her sprained ankle excited beyond words. "It's live! It's live! We're live!". Our celebrations are decentralized that evening with the boys eating tapas and drinking beer in a smoky bar. Marco our ruby developer from Italy flew in for the week. Jean Michel is preparing for this weeks Barcelona ruby gathering. Toni our Product Manager extraordinare is at home stuck to his monitor ensuring the starfish breathes enough air to survive the night. And Gregory is resting his brain from all the hours of user testing giving us confidence the site actually makes sense.

It's show time!

Barcelona Web2.0 Community

Some days ago we created the Barcelona Web2.0 Community for all the who's who of the Web 2.0 society in Barcelona.

It's a group living on Facebook where we gather all people in our industry and provide alerts to upcoming events and local news. Every person who is related to Barcelona and interested in Web2.0 is welcome to join us!

We meet up every now and then personally at Barcelona Web2.0 Tapas Crawl !

Go Fredi!

And the award for adding most groups to Linqia before our launch next week goes to Fredi! There's a group jam going on at your profile.



Anybody want to challenge him?

Linqia is green!

Linqia is moving toward becoming a carbon neutral company. From the 1st o January 2008, our servers are running with renewable energies coming mainly from hydropower.





Internet has a growing carbon footprint ... In the UK, it is now similar to the aviation industry and its skyrocketing growth means it will soon surpass the poster child for climate change, a report by Global Action Plan with guidance from the Environmental IT Leadership Team (EILT) revealed in january 2008.

Hopefully, Green hosting is becoming mainstream. Dreamhost, one of the major US hosting company went green in August 2007. Aiso, an innovative Californian hosting is using solar panels and batteries to power its servers:



Later or sooner, Kyoto 2 protocol (after 2012) and the EU Commission will push the industry towards a reduction of their carbon footprint. On the other hand, the IT industry will save a lot of money by running energy efficient servers.

I believe that XXI st centuries web2.0 start ups have to lead the way and let their users know about their carbon footprint ;-)