LinkedIn is feeling the heat from Facebook’s platform strategy: realizing it could lose its dominant position in business networking if it doesn’t act, founder and Chairman Reid Hoffman said on Friday that LinkedIn will provide open APIs “within 9 months”. Most likely, it’ll be much sooner (and it’ll need to be - 9 months is a long, long time on the web).

It’s a wise move, of course: as competition increases, the only way for market leaders to sure up their positions is to build a Microsoft-esque ecosystem. The question is how MySpace will react to Facebook’s latest moves: although still ahead in terms of size and growth, there’s a sense that the market leader has lost its sheen. And I hope that LinkedIn carries this idea forward with more innovation, rather than simply following Facebook’s every step.

The question: what would you build for LinkedIn?

See also: Facebook Platform: 30+ Awesome Applications for Facebook

[via]

Recommended: Hi5 Layouts at Mashcodes!

Share This

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!


This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 at 5:29 am and is filed under Blogroll. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.