The Flow of Consciousness

Bob Buskirk and I were discussing a few days ago a social network called LinkedIn. It’s a social network for professionals: it lacks popular social network features such as photo albums, videos, blogging, and profile customization because these are irrelevant to those on the network. Each profile can optionally have a single picture, mostly to verify pictorially a user’s identity to another user.

It’s essentially a glorified address book combined with a job board. It’s populated by a large number of folks in the professional world; folks who see the importance of business contacts without the risk of a “friend” posting that picture of you doing something of questionable legality or morality at that party.

I like it, and I’m there to stay.

So, go forth, interested reader, and see Colin Dean’s profile on LinkedIn.

First off, Yuwie is 100% FREE. Yuwie is like any other “connect with friends” or social networking site. But Yuwie has one major difference: use Yuwie, get paid!

Yuwie pays you to blog, upload pictures, refer friends, chat, hang out, etc.

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You see, MySpace and Facebook and the like get advertising revenue every time there’s a page view. This means that any time anyone looks at your profile, anytime you look at someone else’s profile, or any of the pages that branch from it (photos, videos, etc.), they get a small amount of money.

Yuwie is willing to surrender a good portion of their potential income in order to draw more people to the site. So, when you join, you get 10% of the profits you make for Yuwie just for using it. When you invite someone, you get 10% of whatever they make for Yuwie and they get 10%. It’s exponential, and gets a little smaller after the fourth degree of separation, but if someone 10 levels away from you joins, you get 30% of whatever they make for Yuwie.

I’m giving it a try for a few days. It’s very MySpace-esque: more attractive than MySpace and better functionality, but it’s obviously a newer site.

So, click here to join!