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gacba on April 6, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: LinkedIn Announces New Platform

I wouldn't suggest LinkedIn recommendations are all that exclusive today...The way it usually works is that you ask Sue for a recommendation after giving her one (per the way LinkedIn promotes it). It's always tete-a-tete, so in my mind the recommendations are not as valuable as they appear on the surface.

One way recommendations would be more valuable, otherwise it's like saying, "Yep, Sue & I are friends so we gave each other good marks for working together..."

irickt on April 7, 2011 | [–]

Pedantic: Maybe you meant to say tit for tat. Tête-à-tête, literally head to head, is a meeting or conversation.

mtopper on April 6, 2011 | [–]

I think he's referring to the product recommendation button, not the "person recommendation" feature that's been around for a long time

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