LinkedIn 2.0
Here’s an interesting little thought about how to make LinkedIn’s endorsements a little more useful. Just like amazon.com’s review-feedback mechanism, each endorsement should also have a simple agree/disagree option. Of course, this feedback mechanism would have to be constrained to other registered LinkedIn users who also worked with the person being endorsed, to try to minimize the potential for abuse.
This would provide two interesting features:
- Endorsements would have a rough quality-metric indicating whether they ought to be believed.
- LinkedIn could also flag users that have a tendency to hand out worthless endorsements.
Would this be helpful for potential employers doing background research? I dunno! But it would at least relieve me of my annoyance with LinkedIn. 