LinkedIn (Published by Andrew Tomazos)

This content was published by Andrew Tomazos and written by several hundred members of the former Internet Knowledge Base project.

LinkedIn is a friends-of-friends network for making and keeping in touch with business contacts. It allows automates the offline process of exchanging business cards and getting refferals. What is interesting about LinkedIn?

Why LinkedIn is (or should be) interesting?
LinkedIn uses the idea of six degrees of separation, which potentially (or at least ideally) can connect you with anyone on the globe. This concept, explains award winning playwright John Guare, is "not philosophical or poetic. It's a statistical theory, based on the wireless [telegraph] of the inventor, Marconi. [Marconi] surmised that by the time the country would be connected by the wireless, we'd be able to find anybody on the planet by connecting through 5.83
people."*

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