LinkedIn announced what they call “LinkedIn Intelligent Application Platform” earlier today. The platform will offer 2 ways to integrate with LinkedIn: first by using their APIs to build widgets than can augment the functionality of an existing site and secondly by building the application that gets hosted on LinkedIn website using OpenSocial API.
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I came across a few posts recently which claim that OpenSocial is not going to help Google much since it’s just a platform and it won’t help them increase the Orkut popularity. I don’t disagree with this argument, but what they go on to conclude is that OpenSocial is no big deal and probably is [...]