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Re: LinkedIn Joins the Application Craze

Tim Johnson — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:17:44 -0000

LinkedIn's Amazon app is just a big cash flow ploy. Smart for them, crummy for us users.

Each link is an affiliate link for LinkedIn. Note the linked-20 in the URL.
I asked LinkedIn if users would be given the opportunity to post their own affiliate links. They said no.
Interestingly, they didn't admit to me that they were Amazon affiliates either.

Re: LinkedIn Joins the Application Craze

Bay Area Lawyer — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:12:14 -0000

Using social networks like linkedIn hoping to make direct profits may not work out as many would expect. I think that you really have to be realistic about making money on these sites. A vast majority of these newer widgets link peoples profiles to places like amazon. etc...making money from these sites, in my opinion, is more of a main stream effort. in other words these social sites should be used to organize and muster business contacts as the need arises

Re: LinkedIn Joins the Application Craze

Max Entin — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:18:35 -0000

I already took advantage of this by adding my Wordpress blog to my profile :-)

Re: LinkedIn Joins the Application Craze

chrisgoward — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:40:52 -0000

I couldn't get a few of the LinkedIn apps working, but the Wordpress App worked for me on my profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/...

A contact at LinkedIn's ad agency told me that LinkedIn has a pretty aggressive development plan so I'm looking forward to seeing more of this from them.

Chris
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Re: LinkedIn Joins the Application Craze

Merchant Account Specialist Ch — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:16:45 -0000

This is certainly a great idea -- I only wish it would have worked for me. I tried to add the WordPress application to no avail. It will be interesting to see what they add in the rounds to come.