LinkedIn Opens Up to Developers
November 24, 2009 by Alice Allan
LinkedIn has opened up its application programming interface (API) to allow the development of applications that make use of the professional social network, and twitterjobsearch.com is one of the first job websites to jump on board.
As LinkedIn’s blog explains, the new developer.linkedin.com website lets developers use LinkedIn’s API to integrate LinkedIn into websites and business applications.
The way twitterjobsearch.com has put the API to use gives an idea of its potential. The Twitter-based job search engine has created JobDASH, a career management tool for IT professionals.
Installing JobDASH gives users the ability to track colleagues via LinkedIn, follow industry news, and track and filter real-time employment offers from Twitter and LinkedIn status updates.
LinkedIn’s vice president of search and platform products, Adam Nash, told venturebeat.com about the thinking behind opening up their API:
“We’re very opinionated. We believe that any business application that someone builds in 2010 that doesn’t integrate with us is going to be an anachronism.”
Nash also told techcrunch.com that this is the first step for LinkedIn to become an open ecosystem and that there are plans for more APIs to be released in future.
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