CrunchBase Integrates the Company Insider Widget
A few days ago, I blogged about the launch of the LinkedIn’s Company Insider Widget. With a few lines of code, this JavaScript widget allows you to provide contextual relevance on companies to any reader of your site. In addition to sites like BusinessWeek and CIO Magazine, starting today, you will also see it installed on CrunchBase.
The Company Insider widget is a natural fit to a site like Crunchbase, a free directory of technology companies, people, and
investors that belongs to the TechCrunch family of sites. So, as you click through any of the 4460 companies listed on Crunchbase you should be able to see pertinent information such as the number of people in that company who are connected to you on LinkedIn.
Michael Arrington of TechCrunch says:
In the meantime, though, we’ve added a few new features to the product, including integration with LinkedIn
via their API. You can now click a button and see if you are linked to
any of the employees at any particular startup. The image to the left
shows Google, but you may be surprised to find a connection to someone
at even the smaller new companieswe cover.
Here’s an example:
If you’d like to install the Company Insider Widget for your blog or site, all it takes is a few lines of HTML code. Feel free to leave your feedback.
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Henry Work May 23rd, 2008
Hey Taylor. Thanks for the post. Also to note about the CB integration is that for Investor pages, we integrated the widget as well:
See Sequoia Capital’s page:
http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/sequoia-capital
Also, I should note how easy this widget was to integrate. It took me five minutes (of course, another hour to figure out where exactly I wanted to put it). So for others thinking about using it, go for it. Cheers.
hemant May 26th, 2008
I am getting a error mssg while installing on my blog..Why Taylor?
Dipankar Sarkar May 31st, 2008
Nice widget, will check it out for sure .. Looking forward to the API release actually, a lots of more interesting widgets can be built.
Harish Keshwani June 10th, 2008
Does blue “in” button disappear when LinkedIn Network is down? I checked couple of sites and sure enough blue “in” button is missing and Linkedin site is down currently. I wonder if your Company Insider Widget page can post a change to the code that can indicate website status by displaying different color (maybe grayed “in” button)?