Can Developers Help LinkedIn Learn to Have Fun?

Ed Gubbins
Monday, November 30, 2009
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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 [...] […]

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