LinkedIn grabs Huddle, as the first European startup to be integrated into OpenSocial Apps
LinkedIn has recently made the move from being just a network tool, to adding applications to the platform. Much akin to the Applications, now a mainstay of the Facebook platform, and long seen as a way for developers to infiltrate the existing trust networks that exist on the inside of Online Social Networks, LinkedIn, has made good on it’s promise of working with OpenSocial, and launched it’s first set of apps.
In that lucky grouping are Huddle, a London based startup, that leads the way, with being the first European startup to be represented in LinkedIn. With over 30 million professionals using LinkedIn, Huddle are strategically positioning themselves well ahead of 37 Signals, with their BaseCamp offering.
In fact, when it comes to online project management, Huddle have probably beaten everyone else in the web space, given that most of the 30 million professionals on LinkedIn, probably haven’t gone deliberately looking for services that would offer such tools..
I know recently I discovered the Action Method, approach to tasking and project management, but only since I took an active interest in finding better tools to get this job done… Now it’ll be interesting to see what sort of an impact the OpenSocial integration is going to have with other services that equally integrate with OpenSocial, and will start to be offered through existing online social networks, such as LinkedIn and Plaxo.. Let’s just hope that what happens is that only the best tools rise to the top!
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