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Find old colleagues with WorkedHere
MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, LinkedIn and Classmates.com not doing it for you? WorkedHere wants to be your new social network, giving people a chance to catch up with current and former colleagues.
The idea's sound enough. Create a profile and list the places you've worked, and then surf around for former coworkers you've lost touch with. Find the guy who used to tease you mercilessly and plot your revenge. Track down your old lunch buddy and catch up on old times. Or perhaps the most likely use: silently stalk the cute guy/girl you used to have a crush on.
Of course, there's two problems with this service. First, it's yet another social networking site that doesn't offer many features that you can't get from existing services. And second, there are so few people signed up right now that you can't find some of the largest employers in the U.S. like Wal-Mart, or General Motors. Most of the handful of users currently on the site seem to be based in Europe, as there's an entry for Microsoft Dublin., but none for the U.S. headquarters of the software company.
[via Mashable]
The idea's sound enough. Create a profile and list the places you've worked, and then surf around for former coworkers you've lost touch with. Find the guy who used to tease you mercilessly and plot your revenge. Track down your old lunch buddy and catch up on old times. Or perhaps the most likely use: silently stalk the cute guy/girl you used to have a crush on.
Of course, there's two problems with this service. First, it's yet another social networking site that doesn't offer many features that you can't get from existing services. And second, there are so few people signed up right now that you can't find some of the largest employers in the U.S. like Wal-Mart, or General Motors. Most of the handful of users currently on the site seem to be based in Europe, as there's an entry for Microsoft Dublin., but none for the U.S. headquarters of the software company.
[via Mashable]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
workedhere said 9:06AM on 7-24-2007
Hi Brad, Thanks for your review and comments on our new service. Acouple of points I'd like to add is, Our service launched officially on Monday and as the content is user generated it will take time for all major workplaces to appear and it is already starting to take shape. We are using Google Maps to make the social networking experience alot more interesting for the user plus we will be adding applications to Facebook and MySpace in the near future. Thankng you, workedhere team.
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