A cold shower for LinkedIn
Networking site, uberlord LinkedIn is preparing to rein in those "promiscuous" linkers according to this SiliconBeat story.
The amazing thing about the social networking sites is that they expand like a supernova. The bad thing is that supernovae are hot and active at the edges of the expansions and cold, dark black holes in the middle. At TheLadders.com, we have 450,000 subscribers to our $100K+ professionals newsletters, and when we ask about registration on the social networking sites, we hear "of course, yes", but when asked about actual utilization, it seems awfully quiet.
Reid Hoffman is an amazing guy who has been working in this social networking space since 1997. He definitely understands the sociology of networks better than anybody else in the business.
Now if I can just get him to return my e-mails I'm sure I can help them out on the jobs front!
