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At the moment, both Bloglines and LinkedIn are down -- the former showing a generic "back-soon" splash, the latter claiming an upgrade is under way.

(Unless it's one whoa-nelly upgrade, I can't imagine prime time is the best time for a scheduled service window.)

Anyhoo, I see no blog buzz on these outages. What's the scoop?

Five minutes later: LinkedIn is back, but if it's upgraded, the new stuff has all the subtlety of a recluse spider.

Anyone else had issues getting into LinkedIn the past few days? I've received a couple of invitations I wanted to act on this week, and both times, from two separate places, with access to other sites working fine, I've been unable to get there.
That includes attempts in the past few minutes (writing this Friday afternoon at 2:55 p.m. Eastern time).

Maybe I should be thankful, but LI is the only social network I've ever felt met any practical expectations.

Am I the only one creeped out by how easy it is to invite acquaintances en masse to new social networks such as Spock and Plaxo Pulse?

Both these nets use the program interfaces of existing services such as Facebook and LinkedIn to let a new user log into those sites and pull their entire "friend" rosters into new accounts.