LinkedIn talks about OpenSocial

(My Original Blog Post: -*http://api-madness.com/post/linkedin-talks-about-opensocial/)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21UTDICgEmY[/youtube]

Attention! API Garbage (might be unreadable):

conference friends people

They will will deny something that we are sure absolutely semi-zealot in our product manager at Lincoln as most folks know these days linked in is a professional network unlike some social networks out there we focus on your professional relationships and aim to help you get your professional tasks that whether it s advancing your career finding sales leads finding opportunities to consult for other companies think about nature and we re very excited to be here and are excited to work on the open social API because he really gives us the opportunity to harness the creativity of developers across the web to build more professional tools for users of what I told you so were primarily because we want access to as many developers as possible all contributing their ideas and all creating great tools for members to use we could have built their own API and then only developers that were really passionate about a link that would build anything for it this way were harnessing the creativity of the entire web and I m leaving what is generally quite easy it s pretty straightforward pretty straightforward hyping we d certainly have Lincoln specific extensions that we d like to see out but it s pretty straightforward and pretty standard and makes a lot of sense to well so we re really focused on not only just finding you your friends are your connections as we call them the link then out but also recommending people that are connected through two or more people I met the unique feature of Lincoln where not only can we help you sort of Taiwan can use your existing relationships but we can really help you build new ones by finding friends of friends or friends of friends of friends that can help you achieve your tasks so I m what you might think in future I might absolutely soar deftly hoping to has many interesting features and tools aside as we can for the past few years we ve been really focused on growing our user base creating a very powerful network and our beginning to focus on how we extract the maximum value that I would give our users the tools they need to really get the job done and I m what they want to do and so that s were we hoping the social API comes in because he gives us the opportunity to harness other developers that could build tools for us and our members can enjoy you might like to are not think nothing of particular devices look at it if you don t know what did you tell him sure absolutely so we ve built a little app that s essentially a conference calendar for our members most professionals out there constantly thinking about what conferences should I go to two against my career to meet interesting people to strike interesting deals and of course there services out there that will give you an idea what conferences are coming up and many are well known but there s nothing out there that s giving you an idea of this conference is coming up and hear the people among your network among your connections that are going there so that s basically what we ve built we built the conference calendar that takes existing conference information out there and overlays the social information on top of it to tell you not only what conferences are coming up but the fact that this particular conference has 50 of your connections going and maybe you should come to because he s very popular among your network your sure absolutely Silvey the application is ready here it s a little calendar built into the Lincoln homepage agency that has the details on various conference is coming up these are conferences in October by some of the dates are coded in these colors corresponding to how many of your connections or how many of your friends actually attending the conference C. can see that kind of the red in the big date the more people in your network are actually attending the conference and us the more interesting we think this conference will be for you seeking an idea of what conferences are popular among among your network and if you find one that s interesting for example here s a Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin which apparently 60 people in my network are going to they get more details on it including the conference is what s about the schedule and through some of Lincoln extensions to the open social API you can also get suggestions of people you should meet at the conference not only people that you know are also people that are friends of your friends that might be interesting for you to meet because they re in the same industry or are highly recommended or things of that nature what s more you can even find friends in the area while you re going to this conference are Berlin may be one a refresher connection to these folks do and of course has, for most linking features if you so find someone you re really interested in you can contact them send a little message to say hey I m also here for this conference lets get together let s talk shop