Now a days most popular host sites provide api so that we integrate in our site to create mash-up application. Linkedin recently published their own apis. So now we can integrate linkedin apis in our site. So why we should integrate linkedin api:
Users can bring linkedin profile and network in your site
There are 52 millions users in linkedin so you can engage them in your site
You may create authentication through linkedin api so that user don't need to register in your site
You can search profile, connection
Users can also update their status from your site using linkedin apis
And many moreÉ
In this tutorial I'll show how could you integrate linkedin api in your site, search a company name and get your profile info.
Tutorial: http://thinkdiff.net/linkedin/integrate-linkedin-api-in-your-site/
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