YA clueless SNS

I received a spam invitation to join a SNS, but then they wouldn't let me in...

The service is called ZeroDegrees and it is currently free.

In the most basic sense, the service is a tool that maps the relationships between people. It’s like having a rolodex that can look into other peoples’ rolodexes. For instance, when I do a search for somebody in development at Amazon.com, I can immediately see that a person I know (in my immediate contacts) knows the Director of Interactive Development at IAC, who knows the VP of Development at Amazon.

Contacts can customize their confidentiality level as they see fit. However, the true power lies in the surfacing of these “hidden” relationships. The ability to see beyond our first level of contacts is a powerful way for business professionals to “mine” relationships, identify new business opportunities, and get to key decision-makers.

Over 600,000 executives and professionals working in our industry are connected through the ZeroDegrees network. Networking and “who you know” is more important today than ever before. All the meetings, conferences, tradeshows, and seminars we attend are huge networking opportunities. The ability to map the relationships between buyers, vendors, suppliers, distributors, financiers and decision-makers is what makes ZeroDegrees such a powerful tool.

However, visiting ZeroDegrees led only to this message:

Thank you for visiting ZeroDegrees.

We apologize that at this time we do not support your platform and/or browser. Currently ZeroDegrees only supports Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher running on a Windows platform. We are presently updating our product to support full W3C compliance in the near future.

My opinion has been, for many years now: Setting up a commercial web page that only works with certain browsers is like opening a retail store but putting all the goods on shelves more than six feet up.