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XING Launches OpenSocial App Assault On LinkedIn

Source: TechCrunch

Jul 22, 2009

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Despite being virtually unknown in the US, and still somewhat hemmed in by its core German speaking market, XING, the LinkedIn competitor, refuses to lie down. And like a scene from the Rocky movie, it’s going into training to become better, quicker and faster than the LinkedIn machine. Although let’s face it, it has it’s work cut out as LinkedIn is now worth over $1bn and has 43 million members to XING’s 7.5 million. XING however is worth $213m and is publicly traded. And today XING launches a partner ecosystem based on 16 (count’em) OpenSocial applications from 13 partners, in 7 countries. LinkedIn currently has 6 applications.

Some XING apps will be be familiar to LinkedIn users: they will both have SlideShare and online workspaces from Huddle. But XING has has sourced heavily from European sources with apps from Doodle, Dopplr, Deutsche Welle, MindMeister, spreed, travelload, Tungle, sueddeutsche.de, Wallstreet:Online, WELT ONLINE and ZCOPE. The applications spread from news and project management through to travel planning and data sharing.

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Comments (3)

Wpbasti,

Jul 22, 2009

XING is still alive and keeping a good health in the market with a huge compeditor like LinkedIn.

Gasta Tech Boy,

Jul 23, 2009

I like xing, and what is this christian zeal going on in LinkedIn? I don't mind christianity but I would not let it overwhelm my business priorities. As fully understand the values but some of these christian based approaches are a bit scary.