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It's Superfluous: For business networking, LinkedIn is the current center of gravity: the same staidness that keeps it from drawing a mass audience like Facebook's also helps it retain its aura of professionalism.
Facebook is far from the only site to try to position itself as a corporate networking hub - among those still living, there's also Ryze, Plaxo, Spoke and Ecademy. They're all jockeying for position in a space that already killed off its first wave of aspirants. The primordial business networking site was SixDegrees.com, which launched in 1997 and eventually claimed 3 million members. News Corp.'s Fox Interactive, now MySpace's owner, was an investor. SixDegrees sold itself off to YouthStream Media Networks in early 2000 for $125 million (in stock, not cash), but YouthStream itself faded away soon after - within a year of the acquisition, SixDegrees closed its virtual doors. Now, SixDegrees.com is am empty ghost site, housing nothing more than a long-disused logo.
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