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Can Developers Help LinkedIn Learn to Have Fun? This content requires a paid GigaOM Pro subscription

  • Monday, November 30, 2009

LinkedIn's newly expanded developer base can help blur the lines between work and fun.

LinkedIn’s opening of its platform to a wider audience of developers last week offers a crucial opportunity for the company to overcome one of its biggest self-inflicted impediments: its aversion to fun. The online social network for professionals has been far too slow to adopt the openness that has fueled the growth of other social platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. That hesitation has stemmed mainly from an overdone desire to avoid being perceived as another [...]

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