LinkedIn rolls out app engine
Posted in social media on October 29th, 2008 by Matthew – 1 CommentThis morning on LinkedIn, I saw that the application platform that was originally introduced earlier this year with a few LinkedIn-specific apps such as People you may know, custom people search results, and job search, has been rolled out large scale and now includes applications built by 3rd party developers. There are now 9 applications that can be added to your profile, and each application has a short video describing how it can be added and used.
The predominate usage of LinkedIn is to network with people. Many people use it to find jobs, find new employees, or as an additional PR / marketing channel. With that understanding, the top 2 applications of interest are the twitter search integration (who’s talking about me or my company), and the WordPress blog integration (let others more about what I’m talking about).
Getting my blog syndicated on my LinkedIn profile sounded pretty nifty to me. But, as with many brand new product features, it doesn’t really work 100% of the time. I tried to install the WordPress app several times and it failed in both IE 7 and FF3. I guess we’ll have to wait for a maintenance release before it gets bullet-proofed. 
