Fast Company logo Fast Company 13 months ago

Test-Driving LinkedIn's New Apps Platform

Throwing sheep and swapping vampire bites? Not so much. But early this morning, business-networking site LinkedIn unveiled its new developer platform, loaded with apps aimed at wooing the buttoned-down crowd to its site more often. Full Article at Fast Company

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  1. LinkedIn has been very successful in its revenue model ... The focus now is on providing more to our clients.
    SOURCE: Fast Company 13 months ago
  2. Is this a new business line in itself? No ... But are we providing a lot of utility for the 30 million professionals? Yes. And that activity and utlity will bolster the other four ways that we do make money.
    SOURCE: Fast Company 13 months ago
  3. We pay a lot of attention to the mode that people are in when they visit LinkedIn ... LinkedIn isn’t a time killing application; it's a time-saving application. They're in a problem-solving mode.
    SOURCE: Fast Company 13 months ago
  4. What you're looking at here is really collaboration infrastructure for companies
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