LinkedIn tells you how many ties you have at each degree of separation, but other than that you are not given much information about those ties. LinkedIn has another problem too: It makes it difficult for you to connect with your weak ties. No wonder LinkedIn is being eclipsed by other social network services! Boxes And Arrows : The Design Behind the Design Register or Log In Search Stories Ideas Forums People Events Jobs About February Issue, 2009

number of subscribers, world map showing readership, comments from other industry experts, cross citations on other influential blogs) and by blog links to other sites such as LinkedIn. The LinkedIn assumption is that other people believe (rightly or wrongly) that LinkedIn profiles are credible and reliable. Pandora, FriendFeed, Last.fm, BrightKite, Dopplr, Plaxo, Xing, LinkedIn, etc.). The analysis below is an update to my earlier post . This outline forms the baseline of a discussion Alice Wang (Director, Burton Group) and I will lead at a workshop next Monday sponsored

Alternatively, LinkedIn controls what a viewer may see based on whether she or he has a paid account. For instance, some MySpace users have hacked their profiles to hide the Friends display, and LinkedIn allows users to opt out of displaying their network. In particular, the people behind Ryze, Tribe.net, LinkedIn, and Friendster were tightly entwined personally and professionally. JCMC Home Submit Issues Author Index Editors About JCMC boyd, d. m., &

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It seems as if everyone is talking about social networking these days, whether it’s using Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn, just to name a few. They can make money also by charging fees for membership, for special reports, or for products.  Tags: November Facebook linkedin social social network plattform social networking software social networking websites social networks twitte   It has been a long time without posting here. At rSitez, we have used this time to cotinue improving our product (the more flexible and robust out there) and developing all the custom applications

As of December 2007 Jack will likely start writing about product management too. Why bother with online social networks Tom Davenport has been writing about online social networking lately, mostly appearing the curmudgeon, such as in LinkedIn Is Not a Social Network . Several [commenters] mentioned LinkedIn as the obvious counterexample to my argument. Knowledge Jolt with Jack Jack Vinson writes about knowledge management, personal effectiveness, theory of constraints and more.

have over 10 million first, second and third degree connections in LinkedIn and I get almost no value from that network, per se. Global reach and broader critera for membership can help expand the numbers, but it is always a tradeoff between volume and quality. If it fails to do these things then membership will fall off and the network will become less valuable. by Kevin Wheeler Some excellent reflections on value and social networks by Kevin Wheeler, an expert in staffing and Presdident and Founder of Global Learning Resources , and The Future of Talent Institute Is your social network valuable simply because of the number of people you have in it?

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Experts agree, and proven by the success of Myspace, Facebook and other social networking websites like Youtube,  and Linkedin that having your own social networking website is one of the best business opportunities available today.  You can have a free site that sells ads; a membership payment site that you charge others to join; or a site that you use to sell products.  Did you know that you can have your own Social Networking website like Myspace or Facebook – and create multiple streams of income from these websites … while working from home? Within months of

Experts agree, and proven by the success of Myspace, Facebook and other social networking websites like Youtube,  and Linkedin that having your own social networking website is one of the best business opportunities available today.  You can have a free site that sells ads; a membership payment site that you charge others to join; or a site that you use to sell products.  Did you know that you can have your own Social Networking website like Myspace or Facebook - and create multiple streams of income from these websites … while working from home? Within months of launching