I went to zerply, clicked on a url in one of their testimonials, saw a page where I had to scroll waaaay down to get past all the huge header text and pointless graphics to read a few small snippets about the person. Then I clicked on the person's link to linkedin, and immediately got much more information about them, without pointless "I'm so hip" graphic over-design.
LinkedIn isn't perfect, but I use it for the following purposes:
To find out about companies (who do I know who works there? how big are is the company? what sort of people do they employ?)
To find out about potential co-workers (job applicants, or interviewers when I'm on the other side of the desk, or people I meet other ways): who do we know in common (maybe someone I know who's worked with them can tell me how they were), what else have they done, etc.
Some of their discussion groups are interesting, some are useless.
I haven't yet used them for job hunting, but I expect eventually I may. I have used them for background research on a company I was already considering working for.
I don't go to LinkedIn for the "beauty" of their design, I go there for information. I don't need "profile pages themed by world-class designers" for that.
LinkedIn isn't perfect, but I use it for the following purposes:
To find out about companies (who do I know who works there? how big are is the company? what sort of people do they employ?)
To find out about potential co-workers (job applicants, or interviewers when I'm on the other side of the desk, or people I meet other ways): who do we know in common (maybe someone I know who's worked with them can tell me how they were), what else have they done, etc.
Some of their discussion groups are interesting, some are useless.
I haven't yet used them for job hunting, but I expect eventually I may. I have used them for background research on a company I was already considering working for.
I don't go to LinkedIn for the "beauty" of their design, I go there for information. I don't need "profile pages themed by world-class designers" for that.