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LinkedIn Hits 50 Million Users; Still a Roach Motel

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Oct 14, 2009

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One million new people signed up for LinkedIn accounts already this month, taking the professional social network past the 50 million user mark. LinkedIn has some of the most valuable user data in all of social networking, not just because its members are disproportionately wealthy, but because the site is one of the only places you can find a person's occupational information and history.

"What do you do for a living" is one of the most potent questions a person can be asked and online that means LinkedIn. Unfortunately, in this era of data portability and connected social networks, LinkedIn isn't playing very nicely.

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Every time I see a new social application online I think "it sure would be nice if a person's job title and employer was displayed along side their profile on this service." Where is that information? LinkedIn! Who won't let startups access that info? LinkedIn!

Programmatic access to LinkedIn data is reserved for a very select few high-profile API partners. The company appears to operate under the assumption that only heavyweight p

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