In an obvious effort to catch up with Facebook and Twitter, LinkedIn has finally released its API, which has been in the works for quite some time. The API allows access to profiles, connections, invitations, and status updates.

An Early Success?

Not quite.  A gander through the developer forums shows a cluster of frustrated new developers with no sample code to work from and virtually no successful integration.

The development team hasn’t quite gotten it all together.  They omitted true documentation and sample code with the basic advice to look at other standard OAuth sample code for references.

LinkedIn Widgets

Similar to Facebook Fan Boxes and other widgets, the out-of-the-box widgets LinkedIn provides allow copy and paste widgets for detail on a company or individual profile and a share on LinkedIn button.

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