HooversConnect Proves That I Can Foresee Future

Yes that is correct…me, Brian Balfour can see the future. In my last post about a company called Visible Path I talked about how they data mined a persons network by monitoring your email, instant messages, address book, etc. I summed up the post by saying:

“So why haven’t they made any significant waves in the vast ocean of online social networks? Their software is only available to medium - large companies who are willing to pay big bucks to implement it. This is unfortunate because I could see this being very powerful if they opened it up into an online platform.”

Well apparently they finally saw the same opportunity and have launched HooversConnect in partnership with research company Hoovers (Owned by D & B). The network is still in private beta due to some last minute major bugs. The question will be if they have executed it well.

One major issue I can see with the partnership is Hoovers integrating/pitching their company research products in places that just don’t make sense. The implementation of Hoovers data needs to be extremely useful and in context of the users actions.

[tags]Social Networking, Social Network, Business Social Networking, HooversConnect, Visible Path, Hoovers, Brian Balfour[/tags]