LinkedIn Opens Platform for Devs
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November 26, 2009LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, has taken the long-awaited step of releasing a set of APIs so that developers can build applications to customize the experience on the site.
The 11 APIs will enable third parties to incorporate features from LinkedIn on their sites, enabling visitors to access their profiles and send messages to their contacts, as well as a LinkedIn search feature that developers will be able to embed on external sites.
LinkedIn is also offering a menu of embeddable widgets, which allow site operators to build some of the social network's most popular features into their own Web properties with a minimal amount of coding.
The developer platform builds on several partnerships LinkedIn has struck with major enterprise IT players to integrate its service into the flow of the workplace. LinkedIn has teamed with IBM for a Lotus collaboration, RIM for a version of the site designed for the BlackBerry, and with Microsoft for an Outlook tie-in.
In the social arena, LinkedIn also recently collaborated with Twitter to integrate the content of those two sites....
Source: Internetnews.com
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