LinkedIn Deja Vu?
I picked this up today from a recent Yahoo!Group Post...a real Deja Vu moment.
A company called Fast Pitch! has launched a new platform that seems to be a profile based service, in a similar vein to Ziggs, in that it offers a searchable profile that is indexed by Google (you can get this anyway from the main business networking sites, such as LinkedIn and Ecademy - see Web Profiles On Google)
Anyway, what's aroused interest is that the site has a very similar look and feel to LinkedIn (tabs, buttons, icons, etc).
Is this just a copycat or is LinkedIn providing a white-label platform in a similar move to openBC? (see academici)
What I found amusing was that their "fast pitch" on the site was "For as little as $4.95 per month, Fast Pitch! guarantees your Profile will receive top placement within the world's largest search engine."
They invite you to test it out by typing "Jon Witte" into a google search box
"As you can see" they tell you "Jon's Fast Pitch! Profile is the most visible search result returned and it is the only result that actually reflects Jon."
Err..sorry, when I did it "Jon Witte" didn't even appear on the first page.
Perhaps he's stopped paying his $4.95 ;-)
Technorati Tags - Online Networking, LinkedIn, Fast Pitch
A company called Fast Pitch! has launched a new platform that seems to be a profile based service, in a similar vein to Ziggs, in that it offers a searchable profile that is indexed by Google (you can get this anyway from the main business networking sites, such as LinkedIn and Ecademy - see Web Profiles On Google)
Anyway, what's aroused interest is that the site has a very similar look and feel to LinkedIn (tabs, buttons, icons, etc).
Is this just a copycat or is LinkedIn providing a white-label platform in a similar move to openBC? (see academici)
What I found amusing was that their "fast pitch" on the site was "For as little as $4.95 per month, Fast Pitch! guarantees your Profile will receive top placement within the world's largest search engine."
They invite you to test it out by typing "Jon Witte" into a google search box
"As you can see" they tell you "Jon's Fast Pitch! Profile is the most visible search result returned and it is the only result that actually reflects Jon."
Err..sorry, when I did it "Jon Witte" didn't even appear on the first page.
Perhaps he's stopped paying his $4.95 ;-)
Technorati Tags - Online Networking, LinkedIn, Fast Pitch
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