LinkedIn

 Gary, from Hong Kong visiting Tokyo, exhorts Satoshi to join LinkedIn.

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Gary: What is it? It’s a kind of social networking site for working people, to make contact with other professionals.

Satoshi: A sort of FaceBook?

Gary: If you like. But not just chitchat. You can find people, friends of friends, find out what work they do, and you might find someone to do a deal with.

Satoshi: But if you know the person already, why would you need to look on a website?

Gary: It’s leveraging. You make see a friend on LinkedIn, and you can get access to their friends. It’s called second degree.

Satoshi: So if you go through six degrees, you can contact anyone in the world?

Gary: Look I’ve got 35 contacts, it tells me that those contacts can put me in touch with 80,000 other contacts. That’s networking.

Satoshi: Sounds a useful business tool. If that’s what your job involves. Networking. Some people don’t need 80,000 friends, they’d just rather get on with being creative.

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