LinkedIn -- like every entrant in the crowded social networking market -- is trying to monetize the hundreds of thousands of people who have registered to do... something. For some time, their angle has very obviously been the jobs market. And now, they are going to charge:

Paul Festa

[ from LinkedIn to introduce fees | CNET News.com]

Social networking site LinkedIn will soon begin charging employers $95 per job listing, nudging social networking into the uncertain terrain of paid services.

Social networking has long been an Internet category in search of a revenue model. Sites such as Friendster that link people through personal profiles have hesitated to charge for admission lest they alienate the crowds that give the networks of linked acquaintances value.

But LinkedIn, a site geared to professionals that claims more than 2 million members, on Tuesday is expected to unveil its first paid product, the LinkedIn Jobs network, along with the LinkedIn JobsInsider browser add-on.