(Excuse me?) The features you see in screenshots, like the one above, may never materialise - but if this concept were to get the Sunnyvale green light, never will there have been a truer statement than “it’s who you know, not what you know” — to get an “in” to the company of your dreams you will need an invite from an employee who was also a previous alumnus of your college.
Please tell me Yahoo! seriously considering this. I’m not a college student, but I can’t think of anything that would be worse for corporate America than this. It would only encourage more special favors based personal relationships and nepotism rather than using a merit system to reward those with valuable and marketable skills.
If Yahoo! goes this route it will likely fare well for them as more big companies and mega-corporations will raise their eyebrows to the search portal. I don’t see them taking search business away from Google. But with Yahoo! having the largest directory of blogs on the Internet, and with its focus on small business marketing, the search portal could be poised to capture the corporate market for social networking. It looks like the real intent is to find a niche within the social networking field. This would do it. But I still think it would encourage more of what we need and less of what we do.
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