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Facebook opens up its Platform
News This announcement comes in the wake of three OpenSocial partners - Bebo, Friendster and LinkedIn - all releasing their own developer platform initiatives independent of the Google-run program. Facebook has announced the... [13 Dec 2007]
LinkedIn takes a leaf out of Facebook
News Professional social networking site LinkedIn is to open up its network and let third parties build applications for use within its community. But unlike Facebook, LinkedIn's Intelligent Application... [11 Dec 2007]
Mugshots to appear on LinkedIn
News Social network LinkedIn is to enable its 14 million members to add a "professional" photo to their profiles. Adam Nash, senior director of product at LinkedIn, said in a statement: "Many of our members... [28 Sep 2007]
Editor's Blog: The Facebook sweepstake
Comment LinkedIn, MySpace or others. Talk soon turned to a VC many of us know who has maybe three to four thousand contacts on LinkedIn. Heard about the new game? When you meet friends or colleagues and have a... [31 Jul 2007]
Facebook to fuel spear-phishing boom?
News I think this is a symptom of an addiction with social networking sites such as MySpace or LinkedIn - where people have willingly keyed in all this information about themselves. Security experts are warning of a drastic... [05 Jul 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Social networking
Cheat Sheet Then of course there's social networks as networking career tools for individuals - which can take the form of something-for-every-business-professional networks, such as LinkedIn, or smaller, niche sites that serve a... [15 Jun 2007]
Editor's Blog: Social networking faux pas
Comment As with social networking invites for services such as LinkedIn, I delete requests from people I don't know or who I don't want to know. But I like the approach of those that can provide a platform either for actual... [25 Aug 2006]
Q&A: Jeremy Verba, CEO, Piczo
Comment They can - you see that with LinkedIn - that's had a lot of success. Three months ago, Harvard MBA graduate Jeremy Verba was running the voice services division at AOL. Today as CEO of Piczo, a social networking site for... [24 Aug 2006]
LinkedIn to charge for job listings
News Social networking site LinkedIn will soon begin charging employers $95 per job listing, nudging social networking into the uncertain terrain of paid services. But LinkedIn, a site geared to professionals... [01 Mar 2005]
Esther Dyson: Social networks - the good and the bad
Comment Release 1.0's Esther Dyson examines the promise - and confusion - around social networks such as LinkedIn, Orkut and Plaxo . Are you a member of LinkedIn? There's a difference between business services... [15 Jul 2004]
Leader: Social networking - comical, phishy or next big thing?
Leader In a news story silicon.com ran today the company's VP of engineering spoke out against those who portray the privacy record of Plaxo - and other networked contact systems, such as LinkedIn - as anything less than fine. [24 May 2004]
Plaxo: "The conspiracy theories around us are almost comical."
News Detractors have asserted that information-sharing networks like LinkedIn and Plaxo create a potential for abuse and invasions of privacy. Plaxo's information networking application attempts to take the pain out of... [24 May 2004]
