While everyone is busy talking about Facebook, let me throw in a bit of a likely curveball and bring up the professional social networking website LinkedIn. I did a search on someone I wanted to be back in touch with in 2004 and found her on LinkedIn. I signed up just so I could send her an email, but there wasn’t much going on in there and I was waiting for it to take off. I think the time for LinkedIn to be in the spotlight is now.

With 16 million registered users, they are a force to be reckoned with where your professional connections are concerned. I found most of my wonderful ex-colleagues sitting on this quiet business networking site. It looks like the LinkedIn team gave the website a facelift and beefed it up to anticipate an explosion in social-generated content; it is looking like it is on its way to being a platform and not just another website. I am predicting they will be more than huge following the enhancement of the site now that it is going to be a whole lot more than just a contact list-on-speed. Have a feeling there’s going to be more news on LinkedIn in the coming days and weeks so stay tuned…