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Web Strategy by Jeremiah (Free subscription) | yesterday
I was briefed as an analyst by Adam Nash, LinkedIn’s Vice President, Search & Platform Products to learn about today’s announcement around opening their network as a platform. Announcement: Access LinkedIn Data From Other Locations Using The LinkedIn Platform Starting today, developers worldwide can integrate LinkedIn into their business applications and Web sites. They’ve announced...
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eWeek (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
LinkedIn Nov. 23 followed through on its plans to launch a development platform, opening Developer.linkedin.com to let softwareprogrammers put LinkedIn's profile content into their business applications and Web sites. Microsoft is using LinkedIn to add profile information to Microsoft Office 2010 e-mail users with the Outlook Social Connector. Twitter application TweetDeck will support the LinkedIn...
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Programmable Web (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Perhaps your most important online network of business contacts is now programmable. LinkedIn launched its API (our LinkedIn API profile ), which allows developers to access a user's connections and anyone's profile data, in addition to several other features. Though some are saying "finally," it's clearly not too late for LinkedIn, who aims to be the professional networking platform.
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WebPro News (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
LinkedIn has opened up its platform to developers. It can be accessed at developer.linkedin.com . "Over fifty million users entrust their professional identities and relationships with LinkedIn, helping build LinkedIn into the largest global professional network today," says LinkedIn' Adam Nash. "However, professionals around the world use a wide variety of applications and Web sites...
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ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Two years and a month after announcing that it would launch a more professional-looking developer platform than the wildly successful one at Facebook, LinkedIn today finally opened up a series of application programming interfaces for other companies to build on top of. Make no mistake about it, though - there's some good news and there's some bad news. LinkedIn holds an incredibly useful body of...
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Brand-Yourself.com Blog (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
I hope that everyone is enjoying our interview series about professionals getting jobs because of their proactive use of social media! Today I have the honor of introducing you to Gwen Darling who has a very interesting, unique and inspiring story of how she got a job offer because of LinkedIn. In this story you will see how Gwen started in the early days of the Internet, absorbed all the knowledge...
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
LinkedIn wants a bigger developer community to build up around its social network. The company is announcing that third-party developers will now be able to integrate the professional social network on their own business apps and websites. As Venturebeat points out , LinkedIn already let developers build apps on LinkedIn, a functionality that was added two years ago . However, this goes much further,...
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NewsGator Daily (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
SF's category-endorsing 'Chatter' pre-announcement is driving some good conversation about fundamental requirements for successful enterprise social computing. LinkedIn's API announcement today is adding to the stream. 1.5 million end-users have taught us that enterprise social computing is about helping people...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
LinkedIn will open its technology platform to software developers who want to incorporate its data about people into their business applications.
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GigaOM (Free subscription) | yesterday
A month after Om trashed LinkedIn for failing to launch a promised application platform, and more than a year after the initiative was first announced, the professional network is finally giving out developer keys. Today LinkedIn launches a business-focused apps platform. The full launch follows a string of LinkedIn deals to integrate with IBM, Research In [...]
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My LinkedIn Life (Free subscription) | yesterday
Over fifty million users entrust their professional identities and relationships with LinkedIn, helping build LinkedIn into the largest global professional network today. However, professionals around the world use a wide variety of applications and Web sites to get their work done, and they have spoken loud and clear that they want the ability to [...]
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VentureBeat (Free subscription) | yesterday
LinkedIn aims to be an even more central part of your professional identity than it already is, with today’s launch of the site developer.linkedin.com. The Mountain View, Calif. professional networking site already offers a platform for third-party developers, allowing them to build widgets and apps that run in LinkedIn itself. What it’s announcing today is the other side of that platform,...
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Mashable (Free subscription) | yesterday
When developers get their hands on a social media platform, amazing things tend to happen. For example, Facebook transformed web apps when it launched the Facebook platform . The result has been everything from Facebook Connect to FarmVille . Twitter’s an even better example when you start thinking of the countless Twitter apps for mobile phones and the desktop . That magic is exactly what LinkedIn...
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Webmaster World (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
LinkedIn recently launched two-way integration with Twitter and also rolled out a plug-in to pull in your LinkedIn contacts within Microsoft Outlook. And today, LinkedIn is opening up its API to start letting developers make applications that tap into LinkedIn's social network. While LinkedIn is releasing 11 different APIs, they fall into three distinct categories. First, developers will be able to...
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Between the Lines (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
LinkedIn has opened its platform so developers can integrate the site into business apps and Web sites. Think Facebook Connect for professionals.
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e j naylor | 08/09/2009
?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Recent studies have shown that social networking sites are now being seen as a business opportunity for many companies, online data can be shared with ease and contacts made. More than one in five users (21.7%) now use twitter for work purposes according to recent research carried out by the conference board and TNS. Parallel...
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