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Announcing: LinkedIn Intro

19 points by donretag 13y ago

bigtones 13y ago
How do they inject their info into the iPhone mail app ?
- spaetzel 13y ago
  Sounds like they act as an e-mail proxy. You give them login info to your account and they resend a new e-mail with the extra info. https://intro.linkedin.com/micro/faq https://intro.linkedin.com/micro/faq
  - zippergz 13y ago
    Oh... I'm much more of a LinkedIn fan than most here, and this sounded cool based on the blog post, but there's no way I'm going to let them have my email account credentials (or all of my email).
  - ngoel36 13y ago
    I was so excited about this until I realized that. Not sure if I want to give them all my credentials...
  - avenger123 13y ago
    Incredible. I just went through the FAQ. I would say this is going to be a really really hard sell for most people. The instructions scare me more than anything else. They are written in such a way that it tries hard to not mention explicitly that LinkedIn effectively another gateway between the email provider and you. I just don't get it. How do these companies just assume privacy is a non-issue and come out with products that just completely assume people will trust them because they have a cute privacy statement - "please trust us, we will never do anything with your data.". I'm sorry LinkedIn. This isn't the Facebook crowd. A lot of LinkedIn is IT and I couldn't imagine the average LinkedIn user using this product.
    - synthos 13y ago
      People are just so used to the expected email monitoring from their government. So why not just trust everyone with your communications? Abstract thought not required
mathattack 13y ago
Could this be why they had a lot of downtime today?
donretag 13y ago
"straight to the Apple Mail app on your iPhone." "all in the iPhone Mail app you already use everyday." My iPhone? The wording is a tad presumptuous, especially considering that the majority of smart phones do not use an iPhone.
- JimmaDaRustla 13y ago
  Reminds me of older people who aren't keen on modern technology, coming up to me and asking if my Windows Phone or Android phone is "one of dem new eye-phones!?". Edit: It's been a couple years.
- ngoel36 13y ago
  I mean...Mailbox has done just fine, and that is siloed to both iPhone and Gmail. Now, Mailbox <-> LinkedIn Intro integration would be fantastic...and they wouldn't even (hopefully) have to go through an email proxy (in lieu of true integration w Mailbox)
m_93 13y ago
This is amazing evil app, with great business value. Every time i log in to web app they want to get my connections from oauth. And now the app will be "see" every my mail and addresses.
martinkl 13y ago
See also this blog post on the technology behind Intro: http://engineering.linkedin.com/mobile/linkedin-intro-doing-impossible-ios http://engineering.linkedin.com/mobile/linkedin-intro-doing-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6600597 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6600597
robbfitzsimmons 13y ago
I can imagine this having great utility for many businesspeople, but I think anyone mildly privacy or security conscious probably already thinks LinkedIn trends to the spammy. Making them an intermediary to 100% of my email is nuts. On a lighter note, one of the "shared connections" in the blog screencaps is actually Good Girl Gina, of Reddit meme fame. http://note.io/HfhtzE http://note.io/HfhtzE

19 points by donretag 13y ago

bigtones 13y ago

How do they inject their info into the iPhone mail app ?

spaetzel 13y ago
Sounds like they act as an e-mail proxy. You give them login info to your account and they resend a new e-mail with the extra info. https://intro.linkedin.com/micro/faq https://intro.linkedin.com/micro/faq
- zippergz 13y ago
  Oh... I'm much more of a LinkedIn fan than most here, and this sounded cool based on the blog post, but there's no way I'm going to let them have my email account credentials (or all of my email).
- ngoel36 13y ago
  I was so excited about this until I realized that. Not sure if I want to give them all my credentials...
- avenger123 13y ago
  Incredible. I just went through the FAQ. I would say this is going to be a really really hard sell for most people. The instructions scare me more than anything else. They are written in such a way that it tries hard to not mention explicitly that LinkedIn effectively another gateway between the email provider and you. I just don't get it. How do these companies just assume privacy is a non-issue and come out with products that just completely assume people will trust them because they have a cute privacy statement - "please trust us, we will never do anything with your data.". I'm sorry LinkedIn. This isn't the Facebook crowd. A lot of LinkedIn is IT and I couldn't imagine the average LinkedIn user using this product.
  - synthos 13y ago
    People are just so used to the expected email monitoring from their government. So why not just trust everyone with your communications? Abstract thought not required

mathattack 13y ago

Could this be why they had a lot of downtime today?

donretag 13y ago

"straight to the Apple Mail app on your iPhone." "all in the iPhone Mail app you already use everyday." My iPhone? The wording is a tad presumptuous, especially considering that the majority of smart phones do not use an iPhone.

JimmaDaRustla 13y ago
Reminds me of older people who aren't keen on modern technology, coming up to me and asking if my Windows Phone or Android phone is "one of dem new eye-phones!?". Edit: It's been a couple years.
ngoel36 13y ago
I mean...Mailbox has done just fine, and that is siloed to both iPhone and Gmail. Now, Mailbox <-> LinkedIn Intro integration would be fantastic...and they wouldn't even (hopefully) have to go through an email proxy (in lieu of true integration w Mailbox)

m_93 13y ago

This is amazing evil app, with great business value. Every time i log in to web app they want to get my connections from oauth. And now the app will be "see" every my mail and addresses.

martinkl 13y ago

See also this blog post on the technology behind Intro: http://engineering.linkedin.com/mobile/linkedin-intro-doing-impossible-ios http://engineering.linkedin.com/mobile/linkedin-intro-doing-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6600597 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6600597

robbfitzsimmons 13y ago

I can imagine this having great utility for many businesspeople, but I think anyone mildly privacy or security conscious probably already thinks LinkedIn trends to the spammy. Making them an intermediary to 100% of my email is nuts. On a lighter note, one of the "shared connections" in the blog screencaps is actually Good Girl Gina, of Reddit meme fame. http://note.io/HfhtzE http://note.io/HfhtzE