LinkedIn takes aim at developers with plans to lock down most of its APIs
Feb12
on February 12, 2015
at 3:53 pm
LinkedIn has called time on a lot of third-party developers after becoming irritated by how many of them were using its open APIs. It’s announced plans to shut down all but four of them and restrict wider integration to official partnerships. In a blog post, Adam Trachtenberg, Director of LinkedIn’s Developer Network, says “we’ve seen some exciting applications from our developer community” but “while many delivered value back to our members and LinkedIn, not all have.” He explicitly offers shout-outs to three big partners – Samsung, WeChat and Evernote – and the members of its Sponsored Updates partner program. But developers who haven’t signed a partnership…
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