Business networking site LinkedIn adds photos

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Business networking site LinkedIn adds photos

09-28-2007, 09:34 AM,

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Business networking site LinkedIn adds photos

Quote:Business networking Web site LinkedIn is loosening its tie. Caught between a polished image as a nexus for professional contacts and the encroachment of Facebook and other networks, LinkedIn is taking a step toward informality. Starting Sept. 26, the site's 14 million users will be able to post photos of themselves.

These won't be just any photos, mind you. The company wants users to post serious-looking head shots of the kind that would accompany an executive biography. LinkedIn will "do everything we can to encourage it to remain professional," says spokeswoman Kay Luo, lest the site "degrade" to the level of a less business-like destination...

More openness may be coming. LinkedIn is working on ways to let outside software developers tap into the company's database to create applications that, for example, would let users keep tabs on their LinkedIn network from within an industry conference Web site, an Internet job board, or a business application like Salesforce.com...

full article: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/c...topStories

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