Wall Street Journal Goes Web 2.0

The Wall Street Journal seems to be competing with other professionally positioned social networks like Linkedin with a new social network service. Of course the WSJ is one of the few news and information services that is successful with a for-pay model. Can they achieve enough participants in this model to make it work?

" ... In a blog post describing the new social network, the Journal billed the social networking features as a "nifty" way for business owners to connect in a Web 2.0 world. "These new social-networking features should enable you to meet and swap tips with other entrepreneurs and find answers to questions that help you better run your business," it noted.... "