Although social networking sites like Friendster never made much sense to me, LinkedIn seemed to provide a half-decent rationale for the pain of keeping an online contacts list up to date — networking in the business sense of the word. I’ve been using it for a while now and although the interface is fairly pleasant and the functionality is OK, I wasn’t blown away by it until today. When I found this:
Is this incredibly technically difficult? No. Is searching the site a major new invention? No. But this is ostensibly a business site. And the fact that they have taken the time to hack together a search plugin for Firefox makes me think that they might, you know, GET IT. And suddenly I’m much happier using them to make connections.
Posted by Meri @ 9:34 AM on April 26, 2005
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April 26th, 2005 at 8:19 PM
Not bad.
I haven’t been involved with LinkedIn (my ex-boss invited me yesterday), since I was working for a very-small company for so long, and online social networking is invisible in New Mexico for the most part. This seems pretty handy.
April 27th, 2005 at 4:49 PM
I find it quite useful — if for no other reason than it gives me a nice visualisation of all the loads of pies I have fingers in! 😉