Spending the holidays integrating the LinkedIn API to our app; I know, I know, get a life. Looking to revisit this old thread:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1492642<p>The API seems to be getting a little bit better, but the ToS still prevents simple things like sending HTML in a message!<p>Any suggestions for a better way to reach business users with a (respectfully) viral app? Jive seems to be opening up their API, what about Yammer?
slightly off topic, but i was noticing a correlation between activity on linkedin and people quitting or changing jobs, it's been rather uncanny how correlated they have been (8 out of 8 folks that have left lately have been using linked in aggressively before departing) and this is in china, land of blocked sites (facebook, twitter, etc).<p>i'm wondering if there's data to be mined from other such sites so that you can make a prediction of who's quitting. i see this as a major privacy issue, i.e. as i'm a user of linked in and someone's trying to predict if i'm quitting my job.
Reaching business users is very difficult: they are generally older and not active on social networks with the exception of linked in. However, few people are "active" on LI except marketers and job seekers. I run a service in the corporate/legal that relies on invites from existing users to get new users. We decided LI integration was not a good use of time. When I have posted content in LI groups I notice very low click through, regardless of the nature of the content.