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Bold move for them. It allows them to more tightly control the experience and probably generate a stronger internal business case for 3rd party use. Similar to
by supergeek133 12y ago
Bold move for them. It allows them to more tightly control the experience and probably generate a stronger internal business case for 3rd party use.
Similar to Netflix, a more closed approach will enable them to make changes to the API to tightly fit their partners and LinkedIn's desired use cases.
- thesimon 12y agoWhich wouldn't be possible with a specific endpoint for their partners, while stil allowing public access?
- bduerst 12y agoTrue, but you would still have third parties giving an experience you wouldn't be able to control. I didn't think this was a problem for LinkedIn. They may be trying to ratchet in the APIs in an attempt to protect their core value, which is user employment data.