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Web Services, Web 2.0 & SOA: eWEEK Labs Walk-through: LinkedIn Application Platform


With its extensive application platform, Facebook has given masses of computer users something other than FreeCell with which to wile away their work hours. Recently, Facebook's more buttoned-down social networking neighbor, LinkedIn, acquired its own apps platform. eWEEK Labs took a peek at LinkedIn's app offerings to judge whether they prove themselves any more productive.
 
  • eWEEK Labs Walk-through: LinkedIn Application Platform

    by eWEEK Labs
  • A Modest Assortment

    When we checked out LinkedIn Applications, the number of available apps sat at only nine—few enough for every app to be "Featured."
  • Events

    The Events application is one of LinkedIn's more interesting offerings. Through our LinkedIn connections, we could find events that we might not otherwise have known about.
  • Be There or Be Square

    We could signal our plans to attend an event or express our interest.
  • Check It Out

    Certainly, Andrew Garcia would want to know about this Fiber-to-the-Home Council Members' Meeting. We'll shoot him a note about it.
  • Add an Event

    You can add events by filling out a form, but there doesn't appear to be a way to sync with an existing calendar source.
  • Remind You of Anything?

    The app-adding screen at LinkedIn, shown here with SixApart's BlogLink tool, is very similar to Facebook's app-adding dialog.
  • BlogLink Needs Work

    The BlogLink app promises to hook you up with posts from your connections, but we found that the app unhelpfully attributed every post associated with a connection's current or previous employer to that connection. Much repetition ensues.
  • Box.net Integration

    It's not clear to us why one would wish to access remote storage through their LinkedIn profile page, but there's a Box.net app to help you do this.
  • Smell the 2.0

    We uploaded a text file to Box.net through LinkedIn, and we were offered the option of editing that file over at Zoho.
  • Zoho, Unsubscribed

    It wasn't necessary for us to sign in to Zoho in order to edit the file we'd uploaded.
  • iPaper, Anyone?

    If the Zoho integration wasn't enough, we could hit up another Web 2.0 service, iPaper, to view our file.
  • More Slide Decks, Please

    Who among us hasn't wished they could host a slide deck from their LinkedIn page? Now there are two options for this, Google Presentations and SlideShare.
  • Huddle Up

    Huddle.net's collaborative workspace service is now linked in to LinkedIn. What stood out for us in the implementation of this app is that it built us a workspace without asking us first to sign up for Huddle.net—thereby making good on its ad hoc image.
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