InMaps from Linkedin: Map Your Social Connections If You Can Get It To Work
InMaps from Linkedin: Map Your Social Connections If You Can Get It To Work
Have you ever wondered what your network actually looks like? With Linkedin InMaps, they claim you can get a map of colors to show your connections and how they inter-relate. Colors represent groups within your professional connections. It’s a way to see how you know people and visualize relationships.
It sounded very interesting so I thought I’d check it out. I was unable to view InMaps through Explorer or AOL. It suggested using Google’s Chrome or Firefox but it never worked with those applications either. It just gives a never-ending processing swirl on the page. I was curious if it had to do with Windows 7 so I tried it on my Mac with no luck either. Granted, I have a lot of connections on Linkedin, but the processing swirl never stopped.
Perhaps they are just having problems with the site that will resolve. If anyone has had good or bad things to say about InMaps, I’d be curious to hear about it.
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Do you do a lot of Social Networking? Find out What is Different About Rockmelt’s New Browser
Marc Andreessen, Netscape founder, is backing a new startup browser called Rockmelt. Rockmelt claims it “does more than just navigate Web pages. It makes it easy for you to do the things you do every single day on the Web: share and keep up with your friends, stay up-to-date on news and information, and search.”
The beta version is being made available today and is built around sites like Facebook and Twitter.
After 2 years in product, their focus is for those who do a lot of social networking. According to their blog, “Your friends are important to you, so we built them in. Now you’re able to chat, share that piano-playing-cat video everyone’s going to love, or just see what your friends are up to, regardless of what site you’re on. Your favorite sites are important to you, so we built them in too. Now you can access them from anywhere, without leaving the page you’re on. And RockMelt will tell you when something new happens.”
For more information, check out their video below.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAPKPhoTqFY&fs=1&hl=en_US]Related Articles
- RockMelt: A New Browser with a Social Network Bent (dailyfinance.com)
- A new Social Web Browser to be launched by RockMelt (topinews.com)
- RockMelt(R) Re-Imagines the Browser Around Friends, Feeds, and Sharing (marketwire.com)
- Is This the Web Browser Experience People Want? (webpronews.com)