LinkedIn's Answer to Facebook's Open Graph

Some thoughts in no particular order:

Share on LinkedIn, meh. Embedded Profile, VERY cool and could make Facebook a little nauseous. Company Insider, meh. Company Profile, pretty cool. Recommend with LinkedIn and Sign In with LinkedIn, both kind of meh.

My knee-jerk reaction was "LinkedIn -- ASSIMILATE!" but there are areas where LinkedIn can still provide value. I like the concept of Facebook being your online profile so perhaps LinkedIn can be your professional online profile?

That Recommend button, one of the things about LinkedIn recommendations is that they're rather exclusive -- if you get something recommended or receive a recommendation on LinkedIn, that's kind of a big deal it seems! But if you lower the barrier to entry by just allowing the users to...click a button...then doesn't that take away some of the exclusivity?

LinkedIn used to be an amazing project and now it's just trying to adapt trends that others implemented in the market. Really, share on linkedin? That timeline is made with a bunch of twitter updates.

They should differentiate.

What took them 2 years to open up publicly? I could see some uses for this in CRM apps if they let you get access to that data (haven't looked yet). I've never been a huge LI user (more passive user than anything), so I feel like there must be tons of use cases I am unaware of for this platform.