http://imonlinkedinnowwhat.com/2009/08/12/linkedin-hits-45-millions-signups/ the blog behind the book Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:39:57 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://imonlinkedinnowwhat.com/2009/08/12/linkedin-hits-45-millions-signups/comment-page-1/#comment-11424 reinkefj Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:51:57 +0000 http://imonlinkedinnowwhat.com/?p=502#comment-11424 Respectfully, I think the "so what" of the LinkedIn "deadwood" is that there is a significant number of folks -- both on and off linkedIn -- who might be willing to try a "twin" that does some key things differently. A group of odd balls like myself have posited the twin might be labeled “NIDEKNIL”. (A mirror image from Superman's Bizzaroworld.) The way that LinkedIn treats its paying customers, the groups, and the limits on contacts are all entry point for someone to come in a compete with LinkedIn. No one can conceive of a competitor. Until that competitor "becomes the overnight sucess". IBM mainframes to the PC. Altavista to Google. AOL to the internet in general. Closed platforms can be blown away by an open competitor. Lock in the user, like LinkedIn and Facebook, can become their own jail cell. Just the thoughts of another blogger, :-) fjohn Respectfully, I think the “so what” of the LinkedIn “deadwood” is that there is a significant number of folks — both on and off linkedIn — who might be willing to try a “twin” that does some key things differently. A group of odd balls like myself have posited the twin might be labeled “NIDEKNIL”. (A mirror image from Superman’s Bizzaroworld.) The way that LinkedIn treats its paying customers, the groups, and the limits on contacts are all entry point for someone to come in a compete with LinkedIn. No one can conceive of a competitor. Until that competitor “becomes the overnight sucess”. IBM mainframes to the PC. Altavista to Google. AOL to the internet in general. Closed platforms can be blown away by an open competitor. Lock in the user, like LinkedIn and Facebook, can become their own jail cell. Just the thoughts of another blogger, fjohn

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