Following in the footsteps of Facebook and MySpace, professional network LinkedIn announced on Monday a platform that gives third-party developers access to its application programming interfaces. The set of APIs and widgets in LinkedIn's Intelligent Application Platform -- dubbed "InApps," for short -- allows partners to build LinkedIn features into their applications, as well as develop applications that will run within LinkedIn using the OpenSocial development model, the company said.
December 10th 2007
Social networks are peppering the Internet with Facebook-like interactive features. Ajax is fast becoming the defacto programming tool for Web developers. But by itself, Ajax is a daunting challenge that requires demanding coding skills. Ajax toolkits offer Web developers a shortcut method to build in the convenient and useful features that visitors of Web 2.0 sites have come to expect. However, the toolkit concept is nothing new to programming. What's newer is the proliferation of JavaScript-based toolkits to feed the social network phenomenon.