Brightfuse, CareerBuilder’s experimental project, has been quietly gaining ground in the business networking community. A business-oriented social networking site launched back in February 2008 has accumulated a following of around 75,000 members.Working around the premise that referral recruitment grows in popularity in credit-crunched times, it seems that Careerbuilder is investing in the networking premise to support their further work in resourcing. Compared to LinkedIn’s 27 million members, CareerBuilder’s got a way to go, but argues that it’s going for a very different demographic - senior employees with six-figure salaries. We at BB (and our clients) always like to be in on these things whilst they’re still in they’re beta/alpha/never heard of it phases and, so far, Brightfuse hasn’t really promoted itself heavily, relying on steady evolution. So, whilst it’s still very very transatlantic, it’s well worth becoming an early adopter, if only because it’s so quick and easy.

Who’d have though that it would take a full two weeks for Ning to be yesterdays news. Hey ho. The latest 100% free social networking site tool is SocialGo. I know, i know, we’ve only just finished building the Blackbridge Ning network groups to aid company-wide DVD lending but things have moved on. Still, the interface with SocialGo is, on the face of it, immediately more intuitive and presentable than Ming, sorry Ning. But the developers have also stumbled upon a way of monetizing it too, with a paid-for upgrade package. Smart.

Explore it for yourself. Any thoughts greatly appreciated.

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We’re all still hopelessly in love with the fancy flip-through interface that started on iTunes and now lives on through the iPhone. Why? Well it just feels so intuitive doesn’t it? Hell, it’s as if we’re not even using technology at all, more flicking through the vintage jazz section at a tucked-away record store trying to find a hidden gem. Of course, this interface has spawned a whole array of pretenders but one that looks like it might have some mileage is Kronomy.

Xakasha launched late last year as a 3D timeline creation tool for chronicling your life–or anyone else’s life or series of events for that matter. Recently renamed Kronomy, it now dips into multiple social media sources in order to build a given timeline. What’s really interesting, if it takes off, is how it lays the foundations of an all singing, all visual CV, drawn from a variety of personal and professional sources, offering revolutionary insights into an individuals life. The tool could arguably be used to support the timeline of an organisation too, showing in purely visual terms, it’s essence and agenda as it grows and develops.

Kronomy is currently private beta but you can investigate it further by using this invite code: explorekronomy. Well worth a look.