Comments on: LinkedIn API Plans to Compete with Facebook

By: thecapital15

thecapital15 — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:31:09 +0000

what do they smoke at LinkedIn? oh come one facebook is an internet God, there is no way any body is going to compete with them,, unless apocalypse occurs or 2012 comes

By: Scott Allen

Scott Allen — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:19:44 +0000

Not having any problems with it: http://linkedintelligence.com/feed

By: Fedde Le Grand

Fedde Le Grand — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:19:53 +0000

I seem to be having a problem , subscribing to your RSS feed. It comes up with error 302. Let me know if its a known error or if its just me . Ive tried firefox and IE. Im using Eset Firewall and im not sure if its turned on . Im not Great with PCs. Ill revisit your site and see if you have responded. much appreciated

By: bill

bill — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:15:37 +0000

I wanted to comment and thank the author, good stuff

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By: Jason Alba

Jason Alba — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:22:46 +0000

Scott, this is an excellent post (partially because I’m still on a high that LinkedIn announced this). Here’s food for thought – I’ve read in various places that many of the “widgets” that have been developed for Facebook are kind of useless, little toys.

I realize that having an API doesn’t mean that you’ll only get useless toys – a perfect example is what Google Maps has done, how many awesome and useful spinoff sites are there that incorporate cool mapping functionality (for an overly entertaining site to answer this question, check out http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/)?

If you buy into the stereotype that Facebook is for young cool people and LinkedIn is for older business people (very general stereotype, I know), I wonder what that means for the interfaces built? I’m not going to call them widgets now, perhaps they will be much smarter, more useful and practical applications to interface with the LinkedIn data.

I hope that the API is going to be open enough to allow real, meaty functionality. I hope that JibberJobber (a personal CRM) would be one of those that can have a one-click add function (and many other functions interfacing with LinkedIn).

Very cool

Jason Alba
CEO – JibberJobber.com
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