Is This a Linkedin Corporation (LNKD) Killer?

What’s the diff?
The idea behind the new RelSci professional networking service is to map users’ relationships with more than 2 million business people around the globe, in the hopes of closing deals, securing jobs, and other professional networking benefits. What’s different about RelSci is that unlike LinkedIn — or Facebook and Google+, for that matter — it doesn’t require that contacts are “enrolled” to show up in search results, nor does it rely on users to input data. Rather, RelSci scours the Internet using a search function, digging up relevant connections for users based on their search criteria.

At $16.6 billion in market cap, and more than 200 million active professional networking users, LinkedIn isn’t quaking in its boots with the introduction of RelSci, or its impressive financial backers. But what Weiner and the team need to recognize is that RelSci is just the latest new effort to home in on LinkedIn’s impressive market. More will come.

RelSci may not be a concern right now, but it is a peek into what LinkedIn can expect in the future. That’s what success does — it breeds competition.

The article Is This a LinkedIn Killer? originally appeared on Fool.com and is written by Tim Brugger.

Fool contributor Tim Brugger has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends and owns shares of Facebook, Google, and LinkedIn.

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