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by tj on July 19, 2005
"InMail will deliver the message directly to the intended recipient, and InMail recipients can choose whether or not to disclose their name and contact info to the sender based on the request, the profile of the sender, etc.. InMail recipients will also see how many of the last 10 InMails from the sender were accepted vs. declined. InMail will also be available to contact people three degrees away (but not two degrees away)."InMail will also let you search through the whole network not just your connections. InMail will be only available by subscription.
However many limits remain:
"InMail should be offloading the number of introductions people have to make on behalf of their connections. Also, we will be limiting personal networks to 3 degrees---this should also reduce the number of introductions people need to make and will avoid the discomfort of making introductions where you know neither the sender or receiver. When someone is asking for an introduction to someone three degrees away, as the introducer, you will always know either the sender or the receiver and the other person will be a friend-of-a-friend.I did mention this earlier here - I feel Jigsaw is the first breed of tools that has discovered the full revenue potential in Social Networking. You may not like it but its straightforward approach to share data that have value and charging for it while maintaining a community approach is very valuable.
InMail will by default be batched, so members will receive InMail at most twice a week. There will be the option to only read InMail only on the LinkedIn site and to not be shown in LinkedIn Network results and to not receive contacts via InMail. Pricing will be announced when we launch next month."
InMail is pretty late considering that LinkedIn is around since 2003 and has for my taste far too many limitations with that new service. I can totally understand why they have built these in coming from a different approach. So I'm curious to see how it works out for LinkedIn!
Permalink: LinkedIn goes Jigsaw
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Vote for LinkedIn goes Jigsaw:
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Rating: 7.00 out of 4 vote(s) cast.
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Response from:
Konstantin Guericke
(08/05/05 3:07pm)
Response from:
TJ
(08/07/05 6:47pm)
Konstantin,
Thanks a lot for your thoughtful feedback. I admire the network LinkedIn has
created and the brand value the company gained in such a short amount of
time.
I respect your approach to Social Networking and your strong philosophy has
created a new site of copycats who could not reach even close to you.
However I feel the powerful network you have created is running on low steam
in terms of generating user value. Many social networking sites have failed
because their appeal got lost as people realized there is not enough to do
with all that information generated by network over networks.
I feel Jigsaw is straight forward and gives a real reason to be out there as
it generates value. I would love to see LinkedIn generating more use with all the information in the system.
Thanks a lot for your thoughtful feedback. I admire the network LinkedIn has
created and the brand value the company gained in such a short amount of
time.
I respect your approach to Social Networking and your strong philosophy has
created a new site of copycats who could not reach even close to you.
However I feel the powerful network you have created is running on low steam
in terms of generating user value. Many social networking sites have failed
because their appeal got lost as people realized there is not enough to do
with all that information generated by network over networks.
I feel Jigsaw is straight forward and gives a real reason to be out there as
it generates value. I would love to see LinkedIn generating more use with all the information in the system.
Response from:
Lynn
(12/06/09 12:55pm)
I understand that my email addresses get picked up into databases, I just want an easy way to get opt out. It took forever to figure out how to opt out of Jigsaw, I was reccomended http://www.jigsawoptout.com
now I get less SPAM from their advertisers.
now I get less SPAM from their advertisers.
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Unlike Jigsaw, LinkedIn provides:
1) People who show up in search results have all opted in
2) You get not just a name and a title, but generally fairly full biographical data
3) It's not a cold call. You can get introduction--InMail is not about sending an email; it is designed, so that members will look forward to reading InMail and that people using InMail to reach job candidates, experts or clients will have every incentive to be targeted and tailor their proposal to our member.
At LinkedIn, we believe that non-members have rights, too. At the minimum, they should be notified once someone puts them into a searchable database, they should receive the contact information of the person who added their information to a searchable database and they should have a choice not only to remove their personal information uploaded about them by someone else, but also they should have the choice to prevent anyone else from every adding them to the database again.
While opt-out systems are undesirable and untenable, I think any opt-out system should at the minimum include the items above to provide at least a minimum nod to privacy concerns.
-Konstantin
https://www.linkedin.com/p/kguericke