Tuesday, May 02, 2006

LinkedIn and HumanPages

From Christian Mayaud, a well-connected member of LinkedIn, comes a comparison between LinkedIn and the new HumanPages.
Snippets from his blog follow:

As it turns out, there is now more than one way to run a SPAM-Proof Online People Directory and Referral Service.

While hardly a competitive threat to LinkedIn’s massive “resume database”, HumanPages takes an entirely different approach to solving the inherent SPAM problem of Online People Directories.

LinkedIn’s clever “authenticated one-to-one human referral chain” looks a whole lot like networking (even using networking terminology). So it’s hardly surprising that many people (including LinkedIn management) often confuse online activities on LinkedIn as “actual networking” among “connections” — rather than just “manual human SPAM filtering.”

LinkedIN is NOT a network and is NOT a networking platform. LinkedIn is an application to find, or be found by, other LinkedIn members. That’s it. Nothing more, nothing less. And it works well.

Note: The BGN LinkedIn Group membership is available to all BGN Chapter members.

Just like LinkedIn, HumanPages starts as a People Directory — except it has a much simpler solution to the SPAM risk: Make people pay to contact you.

However, the contact fees are directed to a favorite charity.



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