Comments on: Fatal Flaw: Breathing Exhaust http://upandrunning.bplans.com/2008/10/13/fatal-flaw-breathing-exhaust/ Start, Run, and Grow Your Business Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:41:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Ian Hendry http://upandrunning.bplans.com/2008/10/13/fatal-flaw-breathing-exhaust/#comment-304 Ian Hendry Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:15:36 +0000 http://upandrunning.entrepreneur.com/?p=375#comment-304 I don't think LinkedIn's position IS secure. It's popularity is based on the number of ex-work buddies you can find on there (it is the biggest database of resumes/CVs out there) but it does very little to broker valuable new connections. In fact, its policy is to discourage contact with people you don't know and you get restrictions placed on your account if you try - even if it has suggested you have something in common! We have built WeCanDo.BIZ specifically to enable valuable new business connections, where someone needs what you offer or can help you meet your own challenges. It's early days for us, but we believe we offer something much more valuable than LinkedIn. We are definitely slipstreaming, although LinkedIn has 5 years and quite a lead on us now I will admit. Ian Hendry CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ http://www.wecando.biz I don’t think LinkedIn’s position IS secure. It’s popularity is based on the number of ex-work buddies you can find on there (it is the biggest database of resumes/CVs out there) but it does very little to broker valuable new connections. In fact, its policy is to discourage contact with people you don’t know and you get restrictions placed on your account if you try – even if it has suggested you have something in common!

We have built WeCanDo.BIZ specifically to enable valuable new business connections, where someone needs what you offer or can help you meet your own challenges. It’s early days for us, but we believe we offer something much more valuable than LinkedIn. We are definitely slipstreaming, although LinkedIn has 5 years and quite a lead on us now I will admit.

Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz

]]> By: James H Shewmaker http://upandrunning.bplans.com/2008/10/13/fatal-flaw-breathing-exhaust/#comment-303 James H Shewmaker Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:16:27 +0000 http://upandrunning.entrepreneur.com/?p=375#comment-303 Before Google made it big, there were a number of Search Engines other than Yahoo which were major players. The problem was that many of them were using the same methods year after year. Basecamp has a long way to go if it wants to avoid losing its position in the Project Management world to a newcomer. While a newcomer could try to just imitate, there are so many design limitations within Basecamp that it appears to me that it would be easy to overtake and pass. LinkedIn is a bit more secure. They have improved its usefulness - but it is in a position similar to those positions which were occupied by Altavista and Yahoo before Google. Both of those two Search Engines were basically tweaking themselves in 1999. Earlier in the decade Altavista had dropped one of its most innovative features and so far no one has come along to re-invent branching search. (I wish someone would - especially someone who was up to date with the newest search technology.) Just as Yahoo and Altavista did not see the gaping hole in their search engine offering - so also, I believe that LinkedIn is vulnerable in a similar way. But it is not nearly as vulnerable as Basecamp currently is. Before Google made it big, there were a number of Search Engines other than Yahoo which were major players. The problem was that many of them were using the same methods year after year.

Basecamp has a long way to go if it wants to avoid losing its position in the Project Management world to a newcomer. While a newcomer could try to just imitate, there are so many design limitations within Basecamp that it appears to me that it would be easy to overtake and pass.

LinkedIn is a bit more secure. They have improved its usefulness – but it is in a position similar to those positions which were occupied by Altavista and Yahoo before Google.

Both of those two Search Engines were basically tweaking themselves in 1999. Earlier in the decade Altavista had dropped one of its most innovative features and so far no one has come along to re-invent branching search. (I wish someone would – especially someone who was up to date with the newest search technology.)

Just as Yahoo and Altavista did not see the gaping hole in their search engine offering – so also, I believe that LinkedIn is vulnerable in a similar way. But it is not nearly as vulnerable as Basecamp currently is.

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