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Kudos to the LinkedIn API team for shipping the long-awaited open developer platform! We’re proud that knx.to is the first shipping application using their latest OAuth-based API.

Of course, we could only ship 15 minutes after LinkedIn’s announcement because of their generous early access and technical support. Over the past two years, we’ve become one of the only development teams with experience in crawling the public Web, OpenSocial, the original LinkedIn partner API (for our Caller ID 2.0 work with BT/Ribbit), and now the new one. It’s been a long journey to puzzle out the “middleware” that allows us to work with multiple social network APIs simultaneously while preserving user’s privacy.

We’re launching our integration with the basic features that we previewed at the TechCrunch Real-Time Stream last Friday — you can watch our launch video starting 20 minutes in.

So try knx.to out for yourself right now: save time and stay on top with a real-time social “address book” that knows who you connect to.