Submitted by murray on Fri, 03/13/2009 - 10:30
A couple of the blog posts this week have talked about professionalism on social networks, which made me think of linkedin, which is supposedly the professional's version. These came up on one of my feeds a while ago (Feb 9), and I completely forgot about them.
PersonalInfoCloud.com linkedin : Social interaction design lessons learned
All about how social networks can be undermined by their own designers. I found them interesting. [-Murray]
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I think the biggest issue
I think the biggest issue with LinkedIn is that it doesn't know what it wants to be. It seems to be following the classmates.com business model, which is confuse and bully users into paying for an unnecessary upgrade. When the first thing you're presented with is an option to sign up for pay features -- even before you have the opportunity to explore the site! -- you're going to alienate users, especially those who are more familiar with sites that don't require that.