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LinkedIn grabs UK’s Huddle with launch of OpenSocial apps

Source: TechCrunch

Oct 29, 2008

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LinkedIn has today launched its OpenSocial applications platform and one of the first providers will be UK collaboration and project management startup Huddle.net. In fact, it is the only European company on the applications provider list.

Huddle Workspaces will be a bespoke application inside LinkedIn’s service with all the key functionality of its main service. In a nutshell you can create a Huddle workgroup from within Linkedin, and vice versa, if you create a project inside Huddle’s system you can link it to you LinkedIn account later on.

When you install the application on your LinkedIn account (you can do it here) Huddle creates a workspace for you so you can start uploading or creating files, have discussions and invite your LinkedIn connections to collaborate on a project. If you’re an existing Huddle user then you can link your account to LinkedIn and see all of your existing workspaces within the Linkedin app. This is essentially a cut-down version of the main Huddle application, designed to fit within Linkedin’s platform.

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