LinkedIn Evolving into a Business Social Network with Applications

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LinkedIn announces the launch of its applications platform called InApps. LinkedIn apps must be approved before going public to prevent junk apps which plague social networking sites.

Presently, there are 9 applications that you see live on LinkedIn from Amazon, Google, WordPress, Huddle, Six Apart, Box.net, SlideShare, Tripit and LinkedIn itself. These applications can only use LinkedIn’s own Ad network but they can implement a paid subscription service.

This platform will let more than 30 million users of LinkedIn to communicate and share better than before and enhance their productivity. You can read the full story and watch videos about the application platform in this official LinkedIn Blog post.


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