Comments on: 2008: The Year of LinkedIn?

By: LinkedIn’s Recession Growth Faster than Other Career Sites

LinkedIn’s Recession Growth Faster than Other Career Sites — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:37:42 +0000

[...] called it. It looks like 2008 is the year of LinkedIn, which is, not surprisingly, one of the few companies [...]

By: 8 Web Worker Wishes for 2008 | WORK

8 Web Worker Wishes for 2008 | WORK — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 17:57:23 +0000

[...] Wham! That’s the end of Facebook, at least for a certain fickle set. LinkedIn, to me, looks much more promising. Bonus: no food fights or vampire bites on a business-oriented networking [...]

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By: LinkedIn Needs to ReachOut - GigaOM

LinkedIn Needs to ReachOut - GigaOM — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:01:57 +0000

[...] of Facebook’s one-stop-shop social networking site. But LinkedIn is no Facebook, despite rosy possibilities for next year. Facebook has found success in bringing people and applications to its site because it offers a [...]

By: links for 2007-12-04 « Dmartel’s Weblog

links for 2007-12-04 « Dmartel’s Weblog — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:19:58 +0000

[...] 2008: The Year of LinkedIn? hat about that business networking contender, LinkedIn? Could 2008 be the year of business networking? (tags: linkedin social internet) [...]

By: Are the days of "business model fascism" really over? -- Hoover’s Business Insight Zone

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:51:38 +0000

[...] he’s right to put LinkedIn in this camp, but . . . it’s not dead. The music industry as we know it seems certain to collapse utterly, but . . . it’s not dead [...]

By: pwb

pwb — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:17:42 +0000

Becoming more like Facebook would be a bad idea for LinkedIn.

By: IAmSoOverMe

IAmSoOverMe — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:20:36 +0000

I’ve learned that if it was just some joe schmo, microsoft never would have given a 240 million investment to him no matter how good the site was. They are all part of their own circle. Go ahead and design the coolest social website around, and see if anyone from the elite society offers you any money for it.

By: MFTMike

MFTMike — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:33:28 +0000

2008 may be less of the year of the social network as a fascinating idea and more of a feature incorporated into all websites, similar to the incorporation of the comment system or forums.

By: Sam Lawrence

Sam Lawrence — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 02:22:04 +0000

Personally, I’m social networked out in the “consumer” space. Be that LinkedIn or Facebook. Seems like they’ve hit their crest. Like you said, the economy should put the attention on the pragmatism of all this.

My prediction: 2008 will be about bringing all these social apps into the enterprise, where the bigger market really is anyway. We’ve had a number of years now focused on all the different ingredients: blogs, wikis, socialnetworks, etc. But all these ingredients have to add up to something inside companies and tension has been mounting between the big frankensuite install base and the pure players getting serious market traction.

Either way, 2008 promises to be an exciting time for our industry.

By: Jefferson Fletcher

Jefferson Fletcher — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:24:59 +0000

LinkedIn’s pitch is about networking professionals (job seeking or otherwise), but that doesn’t mean its participants don’t use Facebook as well. Tech recruiters scout both Facebook and LinkedIn, and ones I know personally prefer Facebook because of its current rate of adoption and its greater number of college age hires. Does it make sense for an ivy league CS student to pay for (or even use) LinkedIn services? They certainly don’t need to. As an established professional, if my colleagues join Facebook for staying in contact, and I’ll never spend a dime for a service, why do I need both?

Comments above imply that people separate their social and professional networks in real life. By how many degrees? And does that mean you can’t keep them in the same address book? The bottom line is that LinkedIn will need to make some compelling changes to stay competitve going forward.

By: Social Sites News » Blog Archive » 2008: The Year of LinkedIn?

Social Sites News » Blog Archive » 2008: The Year of LinkedIn? — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:18:23 +0000

[...] 2008: The Year of LinkedIn?By Anne ZelenkaIt competes with a vast array of social networks including hi5, Bebo, Orkut, Mixi, QQ and more. Besides that, it could have permanently offended many of its users with its ham-handed attempts at social advertising. …GigaOM - (link) [...]

By: Social Sites News » Blog Archive » Comment on 2008: The Year of LinkedIn? by jwm4

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:17:55 +0000

[...] Comment on 2008: The Year of LinkedIn? by jwm4By jwm4I agree with Patrick that LinkedIn is going nowhere fast, and that internationalization will provide little incremental value to the subscriber base as a whole. What provides value is increasing functionality and increasing communities …Comments for GigaOM - (link) [...]

By: Terry Bolton

Terry Bolton — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:10:46 +0000

hi, in the beginning I was thinking like you that LinkId will role the next generation but you reminded me with a special important note .

you said

"but only if LinkedIn doesn’t fumble its position by failing to address the worldwide Internet user base, about 80 percent of which resides outside of the U.S."

as every body knows a great percentage of internet users reside in the 3rd world countries like India, middle east and others

those are poor countries that have users that prefer free services with advertisement more than clean paid services

thanks a lot

T.B.

By: jwm4

jwm4 — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 07:05:34 +0000

I agree with Patrick that LinkedIn is going nowhere fast, and that internationalization will provide little incremental value to the subscriber base as a whole. What provides value is increasing functionality and increasing communities of interest, and LinkedIn is doing next to nothing in either category. For example, I happened to look today to see if they had removed the restriction on new group creation that has existed for at least 3-4 months. Nope. That’s just ridiculous for a “social networking” site. Their LinkedIn Outlook toolbar, on the fourth or fifth try, still crashes Outlook immediately upon installation, just like all prior versions. LinkedIn seems intent upon giving me more reasons to NOT revisit the site than to visit, and in conversations with others, I find no LinkedIn zealots, like one finds on MySpace, Facebook or other sites with “passionate” subscriber bases. Also, I tried its “premium” service level for a month and found nothing worth $2, much less $20/month, so I can’t believe they have many paying subscribers. Contrast LI’s inertia on functionality with the blazing pace that Facebook and even MySpace have demonstrated in increasing the utility of the service for its subscriber base. Consequently, absent the Beacon fiasco, I would guess that the average Facebook user would agree that he/she has obtained increasing value from the service, whereas I challenge you to find a LI subscriber who finds anything beyond the initial value obtained from publicly publishing one’s connections. incremental value than LinkedIn. After all, LI’s primary and perhaps only utility at this point is to allow one to publicly publish one’s connections. This failure in execution by LI management leaves the company strategically vulnerable to faster paced development in subscriber functionality/value proposition by others. After all, no one has moved their contact databases to LinkedIn. Those databases are the ultimate source of one’s connections, and they are easily mined via API’s/plugins. And interestingly, every time i log onto Facebook, i find another business acquaintance has joined one of my networks there. So perhaps LinkIn management should quit boasting about revenue and focus on execution that delivers more value to subscribers.

By: Joel Landoe

Joel Landoe — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 06:44:17 +0000

LinkedIn centers around "Get the job done", which to me means, establish contacts, maintain business relationships that will potentially lead to a solution to your problem.

Facebook is about consumerism. LinkedIn is about synergizing with others. As users mature, they will prefer LinkedIn model over Facebook.