David John Mead

LinkedIn applications are here

A while ago a group of us were chatting about LinkedIn and how it still didn’t offer a lot of the social network doo-dads that others sites, such as Facebook, does. Since then there has been a slow procession of functionality creeping into my Profile.

First there was Answers, which let you post, & reply to, questions from other users.  Then, after a redesign, came Groups and the ability to update your status.

Now LinkedIn has introduced Applications.  This lets you embed applications along the same lines as Facebook.  They are business-oriented; SlideShare, Company Buzz, and Huddle to name a few.

I’ve added SlideShare but I’m getting a lot of server errors when viewing which I’m hoping is down to volume at the moment.

It’ll be interesting how far they go along this route and truly become a “Facebook for business”.

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