Theses minitests are purely about real business potential, not about the technology behind it.

CollectiveX.com

CollectiveX came across my path about a year ago. I liked it instantly because it has a good user interface, it couldn’t be simpler and basic services are free.

Its’ portal lets you write your profile in a user-friendly way and helps you to find business objectives of other profiles of people within a Same Interest Group. That is something we like to see in a business portal! It really matches your business objectives quite nicely. The indexing and content management used has a beginning of A.I. build in.

So if you are a business user and you describe your business objective as: “I would like to sell satellite communication services in the far east” , the system will show you other users with matching objectives. Quite neat!

CollectiveX has chosen to target SIGS users (same interest groups) and therefore the amount of people you can see is limited to the people on your SIG, which in general isn’t a lot like e.g. LinkedIn and OpenBC.

In this stadium of Web 2.0 development they thus need to do more to let users see all the profiles on the portal, regardless the SIG you have joined. They are thus missing out on the growing potential generated by the enthusiasm of their users.

I have spoken to people at CollectiveX, they are very much open to improvement suggestions, which is good. Try to contact e.g. people at LinkedIn and they will not even answer your email or call.

Summary

CollectiveX is promising and that is why I chose to write about it. It is the only portal I know of which matches business objectives, which is a start. It doesn’t have any Skype or IM integration and it totally misses out on the opportunity to reach out to the masses first.

But maybe that makes it ideal if you want to create a limited and very selective SIG…