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Re: LinkedIn Opening Platform

Isaac Sacolick — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:03:27 -0000

I think it would be great if LinkedIn opened their API similar to facebook. But I don't think Facebook and LinkedIn are in direct competition with each other - at least not yet. Facebook continues to be a place for 25- crowd while most people used LinkedIn for professional contacts. There is some overlap, but people use these tools for completely different reasons.

Re: LinkedIn Opening Platform

Text Generator — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:28:21 -0000

I wonder if other social networks will soon follow.

Re: LinkedIn Opening Platform

Dave Wilson — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 06:03:31 -0000

The most popular Facebook app by far is Top Friends which allows users to select a small number of their best friends to display separately form their other friends. In essence, Top Friends allows users to change the nature of their relationships/friendships with other users.

Facebook taking that concept - different kinds of relationships: social, best friends, professional, etc - to the next level as you suggest in your post would make a lot of sense. This would make Facebook a lot more useful to professionals and would put LinkedIn and perhaps other vertical social networks under pressure, depending on how it's implemented.

What's more is that Facebook users (well, at least the 6,758,905 Top Friends users and the many users who maintain both Facebook and LinkedIn profiles) are no doubt ready to embrace such a change.

Re: LinkedIn Opening Platform

Peter Cooper — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:18:50 -0000

LinkedIn and FaceBook are in competition? I've never felt that, because they do two totally different things. Most people in my FaceBook would never be friended on LinkedIn, and vice versa.. one's for hard core "networking" and business stuff, and the other are acquaintances, friends, people I used to know at school, etc.

Re: LinkedIn Opening Platform

Peter Corbett — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 19:11:14 -0000

While this is an interesting development, should I be considered "old school" if I like my social networks separate? I love how clean Linkedin is...and don't know that I'd want to muddy it with additional apps. Facebook would have to enable multiple profiles within an account in order to satisfy the need to tailor profile data to specific sub audiences. For example, I'd want my friends to see a certain picture of me, and have access to my personal cellphone, while I'd like my professional contacts to see a different picture and number etc. That's certainly possible to do, but is it what we want facebook to be?

Re: LinkedIn Opening Platform

steve — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 19:10:51 -0000

I posted on this over at my zdnet blog a week or so ago. I think LinkedIn needs to do something to add more value for non-paying users.