LinkedIn is courting influential bloggers

It's been a little over three months since Twitter decided that it has outgrown LinkedIn as a federated network partner.  If you recall, Twitter used to not only allow LinkedIn to post its status update to Twitter, but also tweets to appear as network update on LinkedIn.  But on June 29th Twitter stopped its tweets showing up on LinkedIn.

Since then LinkedIn has been working on its counterstrike.  Starting last week we are beginning to see how LinkedIn wants to fill the gap left by Twitter.

LinkedIn wants to be the network of business content and the means to promote the content.  Last week LinkedIn launched its blogging service.  It's available to famous influencers on each subject area, and not to everyone.  The idea is to get these influential members to create original content within LinkedIn platform and allow them to promote them right on LinkedIn.

I wouldn't be surprise if these people were getting paid
to produce original content.
Source: www.linkedin.com

Twitter-like service from existing techs

Today I came across a blog entry by Dave Winer.  (BTW, I wanted to mention that it was a serendipitous discovery to see his blog via Hacker News.  I am still in search for a tool that can provide articles like this systematically.)  In his entry, An Open Twitter-like Ecosystem, he laid out his vision of putting together open social news feed based on existing publicly available technologies.  Key idea that he advocates is using RSS and DNS entries to create easy subscription experience for all users.

Winer's blog sparked a couple of questions in my head: