After lot of me too social networks being launched in India now it’s the turn of professional social networks. With alexa data showing traffic rank of orkut in India to be no. 2 the fate of all those networking sites seems to be sealed. I am afraid the same is going to happen to these professional networking sites unless the make strong corporate connections and offer direct opportunities as well as people-people networking . In that respect naukri.com can come up with some interesting ideas in their newly launched brijj. While on the other hand techtribe is a little old and has been slowly and steadily building user base and also recently got funded by Canaan partners. Unless these sites offer something which is focused only on India, it doesn’t give me reason not to join Linkedin onto which lately many Indian professionals are joining.
Regarding brijj I think they have a strong partner in form of naukri which can help them drive traffic to the new site as the target audience is same. Ideally I would like to see interoperability between both sites. Right now both brijj and techtribe have more or less same features. Also with techtribe there’s a problem of a ‘tech’ in it’s name with can shun potential users in careers other than technology which are fast growing in India such as finance.
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