No sooner did I mention that AOL have launched when.com, but another major website have added events listings to their site. For those of you that don’t know, Linked In is a business networking site which lets you connect to people who you know – or make connections through people you know to other people.

If you have a linked in profile (click here to join) then their automatic system will now show events that match your profile and interests. You can also post your own events, which in turn will be posted as suggestions to people with similar interests. You can search for events by area of interest, date or location, and see who, from your network is planning to attend.

You can also show your interest in the event, and whether you are planning to attend.

Linked in have partnered with event registration site EventBrite to provide the information for the site – and claim that on launch they have over 8,000 events listed – this is sure to rise as members start posting their own events.

You can find out more, visit the Linked In blog or view this video which shows the system at work.

It’s interesting that two big players have launched similar services in the past couple of weeks, and it will be even more interesting to see if their audience start to use them to suggest events and show which they are attending. There’s a definite push towards linking live events with social networking sites – maybe it won’t be long before you can show which events you’re attending and meet up with people at events you know from social networking sites.