[nycbug-talk] Social networking sites

[Francisco Reyes]

On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Josh McCormack wrote:

> I'd call sites like these (linkedin, ryze, ecademy, etc) business networking 
> sites rather than social networking (friendster, etc).

I found linkedin through an article and they used that term. Although I do 
think that there is a certain level of social networking in linkedin (will 
check the rest).

How does linkedin compared to others? Are the others worth checking too?

> I use LinkedIn quite a bit. It's allowed me to pitch some ideas to companies 
> I had no contact with, and has helped me move along some business ideas I've 
> had.

Any of those leads ever translated into actual work/income?