"Linked-in"

I am sure most of you have heard of Linked In . It is a networking site which believes in the 6 degrees of separation. It believes that each one of us are networked to each and every soul on this earth thru 6 levels of connections.
LinkedIn has actually brought to life this very concept by creating a by invitation only site which gets you to connect to lakhs of similar minded professional people who are there mainly for professional reasons.
This is how it works - you get introduced by some one who knows you well enough (mostly colleagues or ex-classmates) . This gives you access to the site. You get to float your profile and can introduce more people onto the site, get yourself introduced to others already on the site that you know from your past or thru others on the site. So indirectly your network keeps on increasing.

I was taking a look at the statistics that the site has provided. It says that there are more than 26,000 people based out of India who are members! Globally the site has currently 70,00,000 people on it.

And looking at the kind of people i have met on the site they are clearly creme amongst the Corporate community.
I saw lots of software professionals and also senior managers from various industries - primarily sales and business development (but then i guess it makes sense for these guys to be there)
The site seems to growing at a phenomenal rate ....at least a 500 a day which i would say is a very decent rate considering the quality of people who are registering.

Of course it has a large group of Indians who are currently in the US in its directory - mainly from the Bay Area - again software professionals .

As a recruiter - i would say on multiple counts this is a great site to be on for headhunting purposes.

It has the best of candidates based out of India and also the best of Indian professionals based out of the US (of course mainly software).

I saw a lot of recruitment consultants also logged on - currently there are nearly 6000 HR professionals on the site.