Joi Ito, who was just recently announced as the new director of MIT’s Media Lab, has written over on his blog that he has been advising LinkedIn and working to help bring it to Japan in 2011.
So, this is my last “real job” before I transition over completely to the Media Lab role: helping to launch LinkedIn in Japan. And we’re looking for the best talent out there. We need an awesome, dedicated team to run LinkedIn in Japan. This team will be responsible for the strategy, product roadmap, and growth in Japan – this the chance to be highly entrepreneurial while having the strength of a global brand behind your team.
LinkedIn recently hit the 100 million user milestone and is expanding in areas outside the US and Europe. Vincenzo Cosenza, who whipped up this wonderful infographic, cites LinkedIn’s own ad creation tool in putting Japan’s current user total at just over 300,000.
Ostensibly this expansion effort would give LinkedIn Japanese language localization, which should go a long way to bringing non-English speaking Japanese people into the LinkedIn community.
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