Get Your Inside Connections with BusinessWeek & SimplyHired
Most of you reading this post have probably read my most recent announcement when we announced APIs and a platform strategy for developers to integrate LinkedIn into their applications, wherever it may be on the web. My my most recent post outlined how Apec, one of the largest job sites in France, integrates LinkedIn functionality into their site. Given below are a couple more examples of similar implementations: BusinessWeek and SimplyHired (with video demos):
BusinessWeek LinkedIn API Implementation
Ever read about a company doing something interesting or important and want to talk directly to the person at the company responsible for it? Now you can. Go to Business Week. Read an article. In the Story Tools area, you’ll see a link to see your LinkedIn connections at the company mentioned in the article.
Business Week has implemented the first LinkedIn widget to show you connections at a company mentioned on the page. It’s a simple Javascript widget that integrates your LinkedIn network with the content of the business article you are reading. This is definitely the start of many more such integrations across the web that'll enable you to leverage the strength of your LinkedIn network.
Want to see how it works? Check out a video demo below.
SimplyHired - LinkedIn API Integration
Last time you looked for a job, did you ever want to know whether anyone could help you get in the door for an interview? Now you can do that on SimplyHired site, via a LinkedIn API integration. Look at a job posting and click the IN icon to see who you know at the hiring company. Then, simply reach out to them or a common connection and ask for help in getting the job. Check out a quick demo below where I walk through a similar scenario.
You’ll notice that this looks different from the Business Week integration. Simply Hired used the LinkedIn APIs to build the interface with specific names of people.
These first integrations are examples of integrations you’ll start seeing across the web on news sites, job sites, and more. For a deeper example, take a look at what Apec has done with the LinkedIn APIs in my earlier blog post here.
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Stege Mar 27, 2008
Is there a developers guide available somewhere?
Erwin van Lun Mar 28, 2008
Hi Lucian,
Thanks again for this posting.
I am a professional speaker and facilitator. Naturally, I've a website ( http://www.erwinvanlun.com ). I would love to have the LinkedIn testimonials feeded to my website. When someone adds a testimoinal, it's automatically feed to my site.
When this could be part of a premium LinkedIn plan, I would certainly make use of an offer like that.
Is such an offer in the pipeline?
Cheers
Erwin
muthusamy Mar 28, 2008
This is all great - but Linkedin customer support appears to be very unresponsive. If you do not take care of the customers when they sent email to the support - all these will become a castle built on a deck of cards.
I suppose 4 days is enough time for a customer support person to respond to an email!!!
Mario Sundar Apr 2, 2008
@stege not yet. stay tuned to the blog.
@erwin that's definitely a timely comment. We're starting a testimonials series on the blog (video included) on how some of our users are effectively leveraging their LinkedIn network. Stay tuned.
@muthusamy,
As you can see on the blog, we do take pains to respond to your comments. If you're still facing a problem, contact me on LinkedIn. Having said that, I hope the problem has been resolved by now.
Joseph Apr 21, 2008
All of these announcements sound great, but they also appear as vaporware. The first announcement was back in Oct - Nov last year and were now to April 08.
I've contacted the developers@linkedin.com address multiple times but have never even gotten a reply of "Sorry, not at this time...".
I think a question everyone has been asking... when will this be available to developers? It all sounds great in videos and screenshots, and I think we are all now clearly interested in building some great applications around it.
Mario Sundar Apr 28, 2008
@joseph
We've worked with developers and released three API partnerships in the past couple of months. We've received a ton of requests that @lucian goes through and depending on the fit, will be responding to them.
The only reason @lucian can't respond to each and every email personally is the volume of emails we receive on the API topic.
Stay tuned to the blog for announcements.
Joseph Apr 30, 2008
Thanks Mario... I'll stay tuned.
Just kind of hoping that at some point it will be opened up to developers as a whole and not just select companies.
I completely understand where it's at right now and what you are doing. I don't have a problem with that. It's just not knowing if there will ever be more than the big companies that get to use it, that makes it rather odd.
Thanks!
Jordi May 14, 2008
The whole developer community is eager to understand what this API is all about. I can understand LinkedIn want to test and evaluate things before providing access to the API, but could you at least provide us with a draft version of the API, allowing us to identify whether you guys will be offering something useable/open or whether this remains a closed 'we-are-open-to-partners-only-microsoft-alike-api'.