Innovation at LinkedIn: From Business Utility to Platform - The Diigo Meta page

• 27 Dec 07
  

  Bill H

  Already a business networking utility with minor community features, LinkedIn launches improved homepage with aggregated news and customized features. In addition, LinkedIn’s launching an API (so third party developers can create applications) starting with BusinessWeek’s “social bookmarks” feature.

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  • I see this as a success as this becomes less of a part-time utility to more of a full-time business platform.

     

    • For any such tool to become a full-time business platform it has to transition seemlessly cross the internal and external [social] networks. The boundaries between the two are becomeing purely physical and thus a hinderance in a location-independent society
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  • LinkedIn already boasts some community features, such as LinkedIn answers, network like sharing tools, all lead by the official LinkedIn blog. I expect to see calendar, event, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and profile matching type of widgets and applications on LinkedIn’s community platform.

    • There is clearly a move to extend beyond hosting the social graph and doing something with it.
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  Bill H on 2007-12-27
  For any such tool to become a full-time business platform it has to transition seemlessly cross the internal and external [social] networks. The boundaries between the two are becomeing purely physical and thus a hinderance in a location-independent society
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  Bill H on 2007-12-27
  There is clearly a move to extend beyond hosting the social graph and doing something with it.

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