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Wow, this API has been a long time coming.

It looks to me like there are write operations for status, activity stream, friend invitations, and direct messaging. I'm not too surprised that LinkedIn does not offer all the contact details.

Phew. This documentation is organized in a somewhat annoying fashion.

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Yeah I'm not surprised either about the contact details, however if you are authenticating all users via oAuth that should negate the risk for a big part.

Imaging Google not allowing you to see the email address via their ContactsAPI, that wouldn't make sense...

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