This can only accelerate linkedin becoming (more) irrelevant which is not a bad thing in my opinion. I keep a linkedin (basic) profile because it's handy to stay in touch with work acquaintances and keep doors open. But for the love of God, no, I will not grant you access to my address book. No, Mr. Headhunter, you may not have my resume before showing me an actual opportunity.<p>Linkedin is now eerily similar to Facebook (which I shun) with work anniversaries, timelines, "You may know" and "you may be interested in" lists and all this other nonsense. It's nothing more than a trolling site for headhunters and large corps to pick off low-hanging fruit.<p>No big loss.
We feel like we could be making more money. We also don't like that occasionally bits of user generated content make it out of our captive portal. We're very sorry about having to blah blah <i>yawn</i> ... Sorry, just got really bored in the middle of lying to you. Anyway there nothing you can do so deal with it.
Opinion from ApiEvangelist: "Ultimately, the move by LInkedIn is no surprise to me, and the platform is purely a distribution channel for me, and has been for some time.. Meaning I only syndicate content there, and you will never find me actually engaging very deep on the platform, building relationships there, because along with other platforms like Quora I do not have any ownership over any of the exhaust I generate. As a professional this is unacceptable to me, as I have a valuable brand that I carefully maintain. As other professionals realize this, they too will mostly abandon the business social network, leaving it to be a spammy corner of the Internet where HR professional prey upon the semi-professional, aspiring employee types."
<a href="http://apievangelist.com/2015/02/12/changes-to-linkedin-developer-program-are-no-surprise/" rel="nofollow">http://apievangelist.com/2015/02/12/changes-to-linkedin-deve...</a>
Definitely could see this coming. While it's a shame that linkedin is closing down their API even more, they are just shooting themselves in the head which is great news :)<p>Anyway, the future of professional social networks is destined to be rich ones for each profession/vertical, not the "crappy/high noise for everyone" linkedin model.<p>I know I'm focusing more on crunchbase[0] and angellist[1] APIs for my startup.<p>[0]<a href="https://developer.crunchbase.com/" rel="nofollow">https://developer.crunchbase.com/</a><p>[1]<a href="https://angel.co/api" rel="nofollow">https://angel.co/api</a>
It looks like they also wiped out their developer forum which was home to a wide range of questions and answers for specific API uses. It's too bad this is gone, it had some great content.<p><a href="http://developer.linkedin.com/forum/" rel="nofollow">http://developer.linkedin.com/forum/</a>
<a href="https://developer.linkedin.com/support/developer-program-transition" rel="nofollow">https://developer.linkedin.com/support/developer-program-tra...</a><p>They're basically restricting access to 90% of their API.
Forgive me for the possibly silly question, but does this mean developers won't be able to make LinkedIn a login option for their apps? I'm not sure if and how OAUth and APIs are related.