Today, on TIME.com, Kristina Dell
writes—What Are Friends
For?
Deals vs. dates? Is that the difference between LinkedIn.com and, say, Orkut.com? Not really. But it is the difference
between a LinkedIn, Visible Path, Spoke, or Ryze and the top dating sites.
I have a modest number of connections on a number of these 'relationship-capital management' services but have not yet
put them through their paces.
Should these business connection services have 'karma' systems? If you are currently utilizing any of these above
mentioned services—what works and what doesn't work for you in their current configurations?
1. I have really been asking myself what is the value as well. Currently I am using LinkedIn to identify people I know, who may provide introductions to people I would like to do business with for my new startup, For example, I don't know Judith, but I want to, and my friend Ted Cohen is connected to her. Knowing that Ted is connected to like 500 people doesn't necessarily give me an indication of how close they are, but it is a start. My sense is that it will be my first use of these services in a 'hopefully' valuable way.
-Derrick
Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Derrick Oien