Six months after Facebook came out with a version of its social network for the iPhone, LinkedIn is finally coming around to releasing a mobile version of its own.
It is live now. Just go to http://m.linkedin.com/ on any mobile browser. Of course, if you have an iPhone, you will see a version optimized just for that device.
This isn’t exactly what we had in mind when we noted there is still an opportunity to create a kick-ass mobile social network.
But the basic functionality is all there. You can look up people’’s profiles, invite people into your network, and see updates from your contacts. More fully-featured, downloadable mobile apps geared to specific phones may be coming in the future.
Even limited mobile browser accessibility should help LinkedIn keep its members happy. The regular Website has been on a tear lately, nearly tripling in unique visitors over the past year in the U.S., to 3.6 million in January 2008, according to comScore.
No signs of social networking fatigue there.
The linkedin Rolodex is now an iphone web app.
I think it is sufficient as it simply enhances a great business tool. I expect LinkedIn will add more robust functionality in the future. This is a good mobile 1.0 product.
i can see this being useful for business meetings or conferences
it is really a good news.
I love LinkedIn. How many other websites do they encourage you to email CEOs and chat with people that would otherwise be unaccessible?
Excellent. Now recruiters can try and scalp candidates while they’re meeting with clients. Can’t wait.
Except business people don’t use iPhones. Does Blackberry have a LinkedIn app interface…?
Good News
Looks OK on my PPC 6800 - although I never saw an HTTPS session on my login, I hope they are secured logins!? Could come in handy if I could see people’s email or cell number so I could email/call them with a click of a link. But other than that, seems useless. I have way more contact info already in my phone’s contacts/exchange. I guess it could be used while you’re in the crapper to check on how ppl are updating their profiles
Hey, Erick, I hear they’re using Hadoop for this, care to elaborate more?
The more exciting thing for them is their new site:
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That’s it? Seriously guys… where’s the value? How does this help me grow my business?
Add some cool GPS capabilities, and then we’ll talk.
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That is not new. They had that for a while and it is pretty useless. LinkedIn is a great site but it is not run by innovative individuals. Sad.
The mobile function is useless as well, unless i am planning to spend too much time staring at my iphone. There are a lot of things they could have done.
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nice graph…
anyway, I’d prefer an application for my BB…..even though I am on Verizon’s fast network, browsers are slow.
Twitter and Facebook apps are great on my phone….when can I expect one from LinkedIn?
Beta? Seriously LinkedIn… grow some cajoles and put something out there with some meat behind it.
Even smaller business networks like Fast Pitch! (www.fastpitchnetworking.com) allow you to do more using your iPhone or Blackberry including the ability to make connections, invite people to join groups, manage your profile… Hell, you can even post a press release, upload media, create events and post classifieds on Fast Pitch! from your phone if you are bored enough.
LinkedIn better hurry up and go IPO… other platforms are quickly passing them by.
I love LinkedIN. They do need to work on the whole situation of contacting other people but I feel as though they are on a great start when it comes to creating the business social networking engine. You can find mostly everyone on there and you can grow your network rather rapidly in order to be at least 3 degrees away from everyone else — The key to it is the network of friends you have. The more people, the more the network effect increases and grows onto itself.
Did anyone else notice that you can now select your language? I wonder if this is the first step towards internationalizing the interface.
You can also get to the mobile site via the (non-qwerty) key pad numeric domain equivalent of the word “Linked” - 546533.
Simply enter 546533.com into your mobile browser. It’s much easier than the 28 inputs required for m.linkedin.com.
I just checked out David’s (#15) reference of Fast Pitch!. I had never heard of them before.
Check out their response to Linkedin Mobile (link below). An obviously biased, yet interesting take on the announcement nonetheless.
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