allfacebook.com — LinkedIn is considering opening their platform to developers. If true, this would be huge news. While a bit skeptical, there are a few reasons that this could actually be taking place. Since Facebook opened their platform almost a month ago, I have been receiving the majority of my professional contact requests through Facebook and not LinkedIn.
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bmw_Jun 25, 2007
"I talked to LinkedIn founder and Chairman Reid Hoffman on Friday at the Supernova 2007 conference about Facebook’s rapid growth and potential incursion into his territory. He told me that over next 9 months LinkedIn would deliver APIs for developers, ostensibly to make it more of platform like Facebook, and create a way for users who spend more time socially in Facebook to get LlinkedIn notifications."<a class="user" href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5482">http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5482</a>
sharky35Jun 25, 2007
Wow a story about ... who gives a s**t.How did this make the front page.
Closed AccountJun 25, 2007
Yes, people still use it, quite a bit in fact.
nonfamousJun 25, 2007
Maybe it's regional, but here in the Northwest USA, LinkedIn is huge. It's the main way people headhunt these days.
geekchicJun 26, 2007
@smackhero - Can I introduce you to the concept of the "paragraph" ?
creardonAug 30, 2007
Excellent comments Nick. The ability to change what people see of your online personality is huge. Avatars (persona's), or what ever you'd like to call them, will be the wave of the social-networking future - hence Facebook will kill Linkedin if it doesn't institute the social side of networking immediately, but with restraint. No matter what people say - networking is social, and you do it so that you stay involved in peoples lives so that they remember you. You do it so that you are at the forefront of their minds the next time they have an opportunity to recommend you. You do it so that you can understand your colleagues better as people so that you can communicate with them more effectively. Knowing when their kids birthday's are, their anniversaries, their favorite holiday spots, the books they read - all of these things help you maintain a fully rounded image of people in your minds eye. Lets face if, we all need solid, trust worthy connections - you can't get those through a resume. The underlying need for social-networking is our psychological need to be part of a group, and to be understood.