Job Change Notifier is shutting down

>Is it possible to have an API-first public company? It's sort of like asking if it's possible to have an open, api-accessible data-warehouse (I think the answer is no, but maybe I'm wrong).

Unless you're charging for access to the APIs, you're going to have to generate the money to keep the lights on somehow. For linkedin, it's paid access to more user data and advertising, so it's understandable why they put the website first.

It's the same pattern that every similar company goes through -- open and inclusive, increasingly to closed and defensive.

Aside from outside services increasingly being blocked from constructively accessing LinkedIn's API, the company is becoming more insular in the other direction as well: Where once it allowed you to configure an external blog that could be itemized as stories on your own profile (which seems like a perfectly logical integration point if a LinkedIn profile were considered a central point of professional information), LinkedIn dumped that in favour of a invitation only siloed-data approach.

No thanks. Where once I saw LinkedIn as an interesting Rolodex, increasingly I am getting an impression that one's career is in a bad place if feeding the LinkedIn beast is an important activity.

They are "upgrading" all app tokens to require their new scoped login system, which they've been using for new apps for the past couple years. It's a better system for the consumer, because the app has to specifically request access to information like your list of connections or email address.

However, it also comes with a requirement to refresh your oAuth token every 60 days by sending the user through the authorization flow transparently. JCN relied on an infinite session to continually poll your connection list and send you an email when anyone changed jobs. Users visited their website once and then left, interacting with JCN almost exclusively via email. There's very little chance of re-engaging them to go log into the site (and thereby refresh their oAuth tokens) because there's almost nothing to do there.

They do, but in an inconsistent way and without any sort of customizability. I sometimes get these emails, and sometimes don't. JCN let you also choose who to watch and will always send an email when it sees one.

I had no idea this app existed, but I wish i knew. I've found linkedin to have very noisy notifications. For my contacts job changes are about 90% of what I'm interested in. However its mixed in with wall posts (all recruiters) network connections etc.

I've had experiences where I didn't find out about a change until over a year later. Its nice to know if a former coworker has moved, or if a contact at a vendor is no longer working at the place.