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You're ready to graduate from your grunt gig to something bigger - product management, software architecture, professional services. Maybe a director-level spot for $150K plus 1% of shares outstanding. It's time to log off tribe.net and set yourself up on linkedIn. But first, don't get yourself fired.

David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) creator of (Ruby on) Rails, railed today on 37signals.com about Linkedin not wanting to let go.

Spend too much time in the world of superlinked social site users, and they start to look like the seedy pickup artists in last year's book The Game. There's the same sense of social norms being twisted into Machiavellian tools. Like pickup artists, superlinkers have their own language, tactics, and a dubious micro-industry.

BusinessWeek says it's found "MySpace for the Office." Most of us thought that's what LinkedIn was for. But the new social network site Visible Path wants the company, not the worker, to pay for service.