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<blockquote data-quote="geek" data-source="post: 2107"><img src="http://valleywag.com/assets/resources/Picture%20299-1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />That <a href="http://valleywag.com/tech/linked-in/" target="_blank">Linked In</a> is to &quot;<a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5482" target="_blank">open up</a>&quot; to third-party developers is not surprising. The business social network has been losing mindshare, at least in Silicon Valley, where the venture capital and entrepreneurial elites have, improbably, switched to <a href="http://valleywag.com/tech/mark-zuckerberg/" target="_blank">Mark Zuckerberg</a>&#039;s <a href="http://valleywag.com/tech/facebook/" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, en masse. And Facebook&#039;s initiative -- allowing services such as iLike, the music recommendation system, to embed themselves deeply in its users&#039; pages -- has only enhanced the status of Zuckerberg&#039;s social network as tech&#039;s alpha startup. But here&#039;s the question: Linked In&#039;s embrace of third-party developers is a me-too move that only underlines the fear of its more rapidly growing competitor. <a href="http://valleywag.com/tech/reid-hoffman/" target="_blank">Reid Hoffman</a>, Linked In&#039;s chatty founder, has never been particularly strategic about communication. If it was to have made a noise about the initiative, better to have waited for the backlash against Facebook apps to gather momentum, or to have put out a spoiler announcement before Facebook&#039;s 23-year-old founder got up on stage earlier this month.<a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/valleywag/full?a=VQuV3p" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/valleywag/full?i=VQuV3p" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />&lt;/img&gt;</a><a href="http://valleywag.com/tech/linked-in/were-cool-too-271927.php" target="_blank">More...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="geek, post: 2107"] [IMG]http://valleywag.com/assets/resources/Picture%20299-1.jpg[/IMG]That [URL="http://valleywag.com/tech/linked-in/"]Linked In[/URL] is to "[URL="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5482"]open up[/URL]" to third-party developers is not surprising. The business social network has been losing mindshare, at least in Silicon Valley, where the venture capital and entrepreneurial elites have, improbably, switched to [URL="http://valleywag.com/tech/mark-zuckerberg/"]Mark Zuckerberg[/URL]'s [URL="http://valleywag.com/tech/facebook/"]Facebook[/URL], en masse. And Facebook's initiative -- allowing services such as iLike, the music recommendation system, to embed themselves deeply in its users' pages -- has only enhanced the status of Zuckerberg's social network as tech's alpha startup. But here's the question: Linked In's embrace of third-party developers is a me-too move that only underlines the fear of its more rapidly growing competitor. [URL="http://valleywag.com/tech/reid-hoffman/"]Reid Hoffman[/URL], Linked In's chatty founder, has never been particularly strategic about communication. If it was to have made a noise about the initiative, better to have waited for the backlash against Facebook apps to gather momentum, or to have put out a spoiler announcement before Facebook's 23-year-old founder got up on stage earlier this month.[URL="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/valleywag/full?a=VQuV3p"][IMG]http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/valleywag/full?i=VQuV3p[/IMG]</img>[/URL] [url=http://valleywag.com/tech/linked-in/were-cool-too-271927.php]More...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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