VisiblePath Is A Lot Like LinkedIn, Except It’s Useful

One of the better features of LinkedIn is the relationship map that shows your friends, and their friends, and their friends, and so on. It is a useful tool when you need to talk to someone you don’t know directly, or get information about them - just find a path through mutual friends.

But we all know what sucks about LinkedIn. Contacts are sorted in only a single list, and there is no way to signal that one person is a closer contact than another person. Also, there is significant social pressure to simply accept anyone that asks into your network. My LinkedIn contact list is littered with people that I don’t know and that I accepted as contacts simply to avoid turning them, whoever they are, into enemies.