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[...] Go Big also has the social networking features of a LinkedIn, allowing you to add friends, and form groups. If you’re not connected with someone else on the network, you have to subscribe to the service to message anyone in the system. However, the networking component is still not a good replacement for real world connections. The spartan text only profiles make it hard for me to believe I could really sign on and start making connections out of the blue. It lacks the recommendation and newly added voting feature of the more established LinkedIn. But GoBigNetwork isn’t so much a networking site as it is a marketplace for financing, and it looks like it will help a lot of dot com outsiders get a foot in the door. [...]

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Mon, 27 Nov 2006 07:12:45 +0000

[...] I think the survey may actually work for service recommendations that a few social networking sites (such as LinkedIn and Yelp.com) are already experimenting with. Yelp.com, a recent entrant into the social networking space has done a stellar job of getting a ton of reviews on services ranging from food to beauty and shopping. But are we ready for product sales on Yelp? Would the community be fine with it? I know it seems inevitable, but it just doesn’t feel right to me. Here’s what Pete Cashmore from Mashable thinks: But real world products create real world problems that these companies aren’t equipped to deal with, so they’d inevitably end up partnering. (Source: Mashable) [...]

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Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:51:23 +0000

[...] Yesterday I posted a short note on the forum section of GoBig Network about a story I read on TechChrunch.com, about the business social networking site LinkedIn adding a feature that allows members to rate and recommend service providers. Read the post and the reply from Wil Shroter, CEO of GoBig below. [...]

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LinkedIn - Is it really useful ? « Online Diary — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:58:46 +0000

[...] On the same day, Techcrunch writes a post on LinkedIn mentioning about introduction of a new service called “Recommend Service Providers” ! [...]

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links for 2006-10-17 « Zero influence — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:37:49 +0000

[...] LinkedIn Expanding Model to Service Recommendations LinkedIn, a social networking website primarily focused on business connections has added a section to their site that allows users to recommend service providers — a yellow pages based on user referrals. From web designers to doctors, users rate servic (tags: socialnetworking socialmedia social software) [...]

By: Manny Hernandez

Manny Hernandez — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:58:20 +0000

I am happy to see them grow. I’ve had mostly a positive experience with them:
http://manuelhp...od-and-bad.html

By: km4

km4 — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:16:30 +0000

Service recommendations are like assholes…everyone’s got one.

Linked In’s limited value is going down the crapper !

By: anon

anon — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:53:49 +0000

Konstantain,

Feedback on two key conditions: No & No.

Regards,

By: Konstantin Guericke

Konstantin Guericke — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:25:03 +0000

For LinkedIn to be successful, there are two key conditions:
(1) do people find the people they are looking for and
(2) are people responsive when they are contacted by an introduction or InMail

We monitor both variables carefully, and it seems to be working well. We reached profitability in March. In fact, all of our development in the past 12 months has been to improve the free version–adoption of premium services continues to do well without requiring us to improve paid services, such as contacting people outside of your network, reference checks, job listings, etc.

By: James Hyde

James Hyde — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:24:05 +0000

Patricia, I agree with what you are saying. That is why I am very excited about what the guys at HiddenMarket.com are doing here in Atlanta. I am currently a user on their private beta, and it is light years ahead of where linkedin and some of the others are (in terms of helping you network).

- LH

By: Facts & Figures

Facts & Figures — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:03:02 +0000

On a closely related service, an estimated 68 million U.S. Internet users performed an Internet Yellow Pages search online in July, according to comScore, an increase of 46% increase versus year ago. Yahoo! Sites lead the IYP searches with 23.9% market share.

By: Tom B

Tom B — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:25:16 +0000

I am curious about the actual number of LinkedIn users. The number keeps going up: 7.7 million now have accounts. However, when I search on LinkedIn I come across vast numbers of people who have zero or one contact and no apparent activity, suggesting that these people signed in just once because they were sent an invitation or were just curious, and probably have never used the service again.

So how many of the 7.7 million accounts are actually dormant? And what does that say about the value of LinkedIn’s premium pay service that allows you full access to all contacts?

By: Wil Schroter

Wil Schroter — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:03:26 +0000

I don’t see how anyone could have an issue with another resource to help get stuff done.

The services/connection aspect makes a ton of sense for a social network. We run a site for entrepreneurs that connects them to other service providers and it’s been quite popular with service providers as a new business tool and entrepreneurs as a “yellow pages” tool.

LinkedIn has done a nice job of building their service. I’m sure it will be helpful to a lot of people. Good job, Konstantin!

By: mahalie

mahalie — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:30:54 +0000

One of my favorite blogs, CodingHorror just posted on this two days ago. He’s not impressed: http://www.codi...ves/000703.html

Especially with thier ‘opt out’ policy.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:05:01 +0000

This idea seems great, but it’s lame that these social networks seem to be pursuing a walled-garden strategy wherein each network is walled-off from the others.

Is there any project out there to create a protocol for interconnecting social networks?

As a user, it would be great to let sites “see” my social network. A simple example would be to find comments on Techcrunch posted by my Linked-In contacts or InsiderPages.com connections.

By: Scott K

Scott K — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:02:29 +0000

I agree w/Patricia- they need to work on the tools a bit. But, I assume they make it hard to do things in the “free” version because they want you to sign up for a monthly subscription – which are priced way too high, IMO.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:57:15 +0000

I think they need to update the way they allow you to network/communicate. For me, the whole point of being on a social network is to network and their tools kind of suck. It feels complicated to communicate – I still don’t exactly get it. On something like that, I just end up giving up and moving onto something else.

By: Konstantin Guericke

Konstantin Guericke — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:49:00 +0000

Recommendations come from clients of the service providers, and only recommended service providers are included in the directory.

One of the most important aspects is that recommendations are not anonymous–each one is attached to the profile of the LinkedIn member, and you can narrow down your list of recommendation, such that you only see those made by people you know personally.

If you don’t find a service provider recommended by one of your own connections, you can broaden your search to include recommendations made by the people your contacts know. These are people you can easily reach through a common connection if you want to get more details about their experience with the service provider they recommended.

By: Faisal

Faisal — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:11:42 +0000

All these ideas are great , but who is free to sign up and do the recommendations?