LinkedIn 称霸社群网站：万事俱备 只欠东风？

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Missing Links: Does LinkedIn Have It All?

Facebook may be the world's top social network when it comes to users, but pound-for-pound, LinkedIn is a worthy challenger. Indeed, in several categories, LinkedIn outperforms Facebook. At first sight, this might not be so apparent. For while Mark Zuckerberg's giant now boasts around a billion users worldwide, LinkedIn has around a quarter of that amount. However, the revenue per user for the two companies is almost identical (around 85 cents in 2012). More importantly, while a swell in mobile ad revenues has been a welcome boost to Facebook in 2013, the company is still way behind LinkedIn in terms of growth rate. Forbes placed LinkedIn at the top of its list of fastest growing tech firms for 2013, with average sales growth of 102 percent, and 51 percent in three-to-five-year estimated earnings per share. The corresponding figures for Facebook were 87 and 25.

Launched in 2002, LinkedIn didn't achieve profitability until 2006. In January 2011, the company filed for an IPO, launching in June of that same year at US$45 per share.

Although it is usually referred to as a social network, there are some obvious differences between LinkedIn and Facebook. LinkedIn has focused on white-collar professionals, functioning more as a data-driven application for recruiters. Facebook, on the other hand, works as a sharing platform on which third parties can build apps.

LinkedIn 称霸社群网站∶万事俱备 只欠东风？

就用户而言，脸书也许是全球排名第一的社群网站，但论斤两，LinkedIn 绝对是个可敬的挑战者。实际上，在几个类别里，LinkedIn 的表现还超越脸书。乍看之下或许不太明显。因为马克．查克伯格的这个社群巨人目前号称在全世界拥有十亿左右的用户，而 LinkedIn 的会员人数只约为其四分之一。不过，这两家公司从每位会员身上获得的平均营收却几乎相同（在二○一二年皆为 85 美分左右）。更重要的是，行动广告收入的增长虽然在二○一三年为脸书带来令人开心的提振效果，但就成长率而言，脸书仍远远落後 LinkedIn。富比世将 LinkedIn 列为二○一三年成长速度最快的科技公司，平均业绩成长率为 102%，三至五年内的估计每股盈馀成长率则是 51%。脸书在这两方面的相应数字则分别为 87 与 25。

LinkedIn 在二○○二年上线，但直到二○○六年才开始获利。二○一一年一月，这家公司申请首次公开发行，在同年六月以每股 45 美元上市。

LinkedIn 虽然通常被称为社群网站，但却和脸书之间存在著几个明显的差异。LinkedIn 聚焦於白领专业人士，比较是招聘人员的资料导向应用工具。另一方面，脸书则是个分享平台，可让第三方厂商设计应用程式。

2014/02/10 (一) I didn't mean for that to happen.

我真的不是故意的。

2014/02/11 (二) Knock it off. Get serious, will you?

别闹了。认真点啦！

2014/02/12 (三) Can you get the phone for me, please?

帮我接一下电话好吗？

2014/02/13 (四) Care for a drink after work?

下班後要不要去喝一杯啊？

2014/02/14 (五) You look very nice today.

你今天穿这样不错喔！