LinkedIn Wants To "Become The Wall Street Journal Of Social News", Says Former Staffer
LinkedIn is going to add a smart news aggregation feature and thereby become “the Wall Street Journal of social news”, Mrinal Desai, who used to work there, writes in a guest post at TechCrunch.
Making this more than just speculation, he recently received an email from a news@linkedin.com address containing the most shared news in his network, a feature that hasn’t been announced or publicized yet.
If LinkedIn rolls out this feature widely that would be smart. LinkedIn’s main problem is that, as it says itself in its S-1 filing, the vast majority of LinkedIn members don’t actually use it. To be blunt: it’s just not useful for the majority of users. It’s only a minority of people like recruiters and salespeople who use the site. That’s the reason why your writer went through customer service hell to leave the site.
It would also be a good…
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