Attila Csordas of the biotechnology blog “Partial Immortalization” reviews Nature Network, the social site for scientists. He writes:

At this point I am strongly supportive of NN as I embraced its core mission a long time ago: “Connecting scientists at a global and local level.”

In his article, Attila compares the Nature Network to LinkedIn, a site for job seekers in the business, IT and technology industries. Although Nature Network is smaller, it is much younger, and has a broader range of operation:

According to the numbers, Nature Network is currently a very small but organically growing strong online community. This is exactly the most exciting period in the life cycle of every forming network, so it is a guaranteed experience and challenge to join and participate – now at least – for people like me, who are eager to test and modulate every flexible beta product.

If you are interested in participating in a “Web 2.0” social network for scientists, then it is worth reading this review, which investigates the benefits and pitfalls for scientists of making Nature Network their main networking site. The verdict? “From the user-scientist point of view, NN is good for scientists hungry for all level of scientific information and contacts.”