Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Connected to Office and Twitter, Linkedin Opens its APIs

With its 52 million members, the social network Linkedin professional dimension will increase its attraction through the introduction of programming interfaces (APIs) designed to enable developers to design applications capable of use data stored by the service. By opening the doors for its databases and enhancing opportunities for interaction with them, Linkedin intends to attract new users, attracted by these new applications.

The ten API is currently available primarily to manage the identification of constraints to service, upgrade or sending information and communication opportunities between members, but also looking for specific profiles. Others should follow in the near future, said Linkedin, according to fifteen minutes just to get a working code.

This announcement comes just days after two other major promises: the ability to link their profile to their Twitter account, so that the former be updated as soon as you use the second, and integration with Office 2010 via "connectors "that is putting up Microsoft.

Like Facebook, like Twitter, Linkedin is the choice of opening, so as to strengthen its online presence and in different software environments used by the Internet. One of the first applications to take advantage of the extension of this strategy should be the Twitter client TweetDeck available on iPhone as on Mac or PC, which allows access from a single interface to different social networks. Linkedin is now the number.

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