trendwatching: LinkedIn Due for a Comeback and Personal Aqua
In this trendwatching podcast, Nora Young talks about her own experience with LinkedIn vs. Facebook and wonders whether LinkedIn might be primed to be, if not THE, then A next big thing. And she’s not the only one. Wired’s Compiler blog comments on LinkedIn opening up its platform to applications. Steve O’Hear even started ’sniffing’ the trend months ago, and a slightly more gimlet-eyed perspective from TechCrunch a while back.
Meanwhile, Cathi Bond has her eye on what she really wants in 2008: Her own personal submarine! And who wouldn’t want the Uboatworx personal sub??
Happy 2008!
January 2nd, 2008 at 11:08 pm
linkedin is a professional, rather than social netwok tool. it’s not built for doing social things (poking or flirting) but for professional connections. it’s great if you are, say, looking for someone well-placed in a company to talk to - you can see if you have a “connection” in common, and try to get an intro. or you can just find the contact info directly in the system.
i suppose it could devolve into something else, but that would quickly kill it as a useful professional tool.
January 5th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
too true hugh! do you think professionals are really using it though? i thought the one thing that was interesting about it, was how a lot of business types are on there. you’d never find them on facebook or myspace. that said, did they just get sucked into it, or are they really using linkedIN
January 14th, 2008 at 10:29 am
no, i defn have non-web business friends on there. i use it exclusively as a business tool (when i’m being a business tool, which isn’t all that often). i think most are the same.