Met Joi Ito today, don't expect to be invited by him to his personal list (like the guy from the Forbes Article... Even so, it Looks Interesting.
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LinkedIn - a network of professionals
Updated with more links
I like networking. I like the idea, that everybody is connected to everyone else through not more than six other people. I was a member of sixdegrees.com - but never got much use out of it. Anyway - there's a new company, LinkedIn, Ltd that offers this kind of networking. It's aimed at realizing networks of professionals - and it has a number of safeguards against spamming, and unwanted contacts.
There's a description of the Web of Trust that lies behind such systems on Many-to-many list.
Update: There's a very active and interesting discussion on Joi's site with the founder of LinkedIn offering background information on design, user reactions etc. It's is very interesting to see how this is going to develop.
Joi has also created a LinkedIn Wiki Page that has more information and more links.
Marc Canter has an email discussion about LinkedIn
Elizabeth Lane Lawley has criticism
Let's see how this develops...
Posted by jcf at May 20, 2003 09:06 AM | TrackBack
