The LinkedIn platform, known as the LinkedIn Intelligent Application Platform, consists of two parts, a way for developers to build application that run inside your LinkedIn account (via OpenSocial) and the far more useful and interesting part — ways to pull your LinkedIn data out and use it elsewhere. read more@Wired.com

A final, but significant note to round out 2007 that actually made headlines a few weeks ago, is the new developer plaform debuted by LinkedIn. The concensus in social networking circles seems to be that LinkedIn is “…now a step ahead of the competition” making it the “…better business social network.” (VentureBeat).

Lucian Beebe from LinkedIn’s Product Management Team tells how LinkedIn’s Intelligent Application Platform will enable you to be more productive by being able to pull your profile data out of LinkedIn and use it elsewhere.