Monthly Archives: April 2006

Tribe and LinkedIn

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I just signed up for Tribe and LinkedIn. My initial impression is that I am very, very impressed. Both are amazingly slick applications. They both have a similar goal, but approach it entirely differently. From what I’ve seen so far, Tribe groups people by geographical areas and by “Tribes”. When I visited the site, it told me I was from Los Angeles (and it’s correct). And the site that I browse is in the losangeles.tribe.net subdomain. One major drawback: huge graphical advertisements.

I’m even more impressed by LinkedIn. I imported my Gmail contact list, which has just over 2,000 emails. Out of those, 65 were already members of LinkedIn. And I was able to find this out in just a couple minutes. Their upload system is superb. And Gmail’s contact export feature is perfect. It has a Gmail .csv format and an Outlook one; since LinkedIn says they can import Outlook-exported lists, I chose that option. It worked flawlessly. It’s amazing!

It’s free (paid upgrade options available) and the only ads I’ve seen are Google text ads. What’s better is that all the pages are secure (https) and they seem to take privacy very seriously. On top of that, the design is slick and fast. The only thing I haven’t liked about the profiles feature is that it wants me to add a second job for the experience section; I don’t know if I really have that much experience to speak of. I’ll probably enter my work at Alpha Escrow and Grace Christian School.

Demographics of Walnut, California

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Walnut is so cool. “The area was once predominantly white. Upper-middle-class Asian immigrants have settled in Walnut, where they now form the majority of the population.”

As of the census of 2000, there were 30,004 people, 8,260 households, and 7,582 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,290.0/km² (3,340.5/mi²). There were 8,395 housing units at an average density of 360.9/km² (934.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 55.75% Asian, 28.37% White, 4.20% African American, 0.24% Native American, 0.08% Pacific Islander, 7.65% from other races, and 3.71% from two or more races. 19.34% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 8,260 households out of which 50.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 77.1% were married couples living together, 9.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 8.2% were non-families. 5.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 1.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.63 and the average family size was 3.74.

In the city the population was spread out with 27.8% under the age of 18, 9.8% from 18 to 24, 27.2% from 25 to 44, 28.4% from 45 to 64, and 6.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 96.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.5 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $81,015, and the median income for a family was $82,977. Males had a median income of $51,944 versus $36,197 for females. The per capita income for the city was $25,196. 6.5% of the population and 5.8% of families were below the poverty line. 7.8% of those under the age of 18 and 6.3% of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line.

via Wikipedia

There are also computer companies in Walnut (like ViewSonic) that I haven’t explored. It’s a small city (most people think Walnut Creek when I say Walnut), but it’s home to Mt. SAC which is the largest community college in California.