Changes, Changes…
October 15th, 2007 | by Jason Alba |Some quick changes since the book was written:
- One of the LinkedIn-centric e-mail lists that I mentioned and recommended, LinkedInnovators, has shut down. I don’t know why, as it had a good membership and good traffic and discussion… but the owners decided to shut it down.
- The other list that I recommended, MyLinkedInPowerForum, will probably change it’s name. The owner received an e-mail from LinkedIn that expressed concern about using the name “LinkedIn” in the name. For now, the link to My LinkedIn Power Forum still works.
- LinkedIn added pictures to profiles. They allow you to put one business or professional picture on your own profile, not more, and not on other profiles. They garnered a ton of PR with this, you would have thought that they found the holy grail, or invented social networking, or something like that. It was a good move, much needed, and as most have said, about time.
- LinkedIn has recently announced the API model they are designing is going to be a lot more controlled than developers were hoping. President Dan Nye is finally making an announcement about this, and opening communication through a blog post on The New York Times. The news about the API is pretty dissappointing to me as I was hoping that I would be able to interface with their API to provide value to LinkedIn and JibberJobber users. I also found it interesting that a number of developers that I know are ticked about it as they feel they’ll be shut out, and that I saw virtually no news about this, whereas just adding pictures opened up the news floodgate. Go figure.
That’s it for now.
