After the sixth time I wrote to the Customer Service Rep on Linkedin "I understand and agree to use your invitations as they were intended"
I gave up begging LinkedIn in increase my invitations.
Shally wrote about "Recent LinkedIn Changes: Boom or Bust?"  and LinkedIn even made the always calm "Jim Stroud" frustrated with a  letter of complaint mentioned in his blog sometime back... and so many are venting their frustration on LinkedIn Answers.

Treating someone who has an account since its beta stage and who pays to have a business account is no good for any company. Anyways the only thing I can do is cancel my business account (which I am seriously considering) and try looking for something new and more exciting and a better idea which would really work..

Welcome Visible Path..

The sign up is easy and downloading outlook plug in and scanning your contacts is easy too.
Visible Path determines your "real" network, and  the strength of each individual relationships which based on your emails and calendar items that involve them.(Now you know why the Outlook plug's for)

Its just not about accepting a invite (like LinkedIn does) but rather analyses the meetings, the interaction on emails, length etc. with your contacts.. Oh Crap that means you need a Outlook or Visible Path doesn't works.. how about user using only gmail,firefox..?
oh well.. ok coming back

It has teamed up with Hoover's (now I see where the data is coming from). And to find contacts beyond your direct network, you have to search for them by name, job, or company and you can reach them directly.

Cons
Not sure why its still in beta Stage after so many yrs?
Only sync with Outlook emails.. Bill Gates is so happy
Relations based on emails.. its scary.. yes the machines are taking over.

Pro
Teamed with Hoovers
Challenge to LinkedIn... really?

      


Conclusion:- Keep in mind...recheck after sometime

Oh well by the time I wrote this I am back at Linkedin looking at more profiles and may be keep my business account for now even though they are have the worst support.

So on a lighter note here's a hilarious Dr. Evil profile on Linkedin (read the recommendations):- Courtesy- my collegue Dave Gombka.


Stay tuned....