LinkedIn recently announced that it has opened access to a new developer platform that should improve LinkedIn’s reach across the web: “The platform, though, isn’t just for developers. LinkedIn is offering an entire suite of plugins to bring all of this content to your website. Even better, it’s making it as easy as the click of a button and it could offer some serious competition to Facebook’s Open Graph on sites that cater to the career-minded.”

According to the LinkedIn blog, “With this release, we’re including a powerful set of new plugins; to further help bring professional identity & insights into your application… For example, you can show your visitors who they know in a professional context with the Member Profile plugin, and display rich personalized insights about companies featured on your site with the Company Insider plugin.”

The article continues, “On top of buttons for sharing websites and recommending products, LinkedIn is offering a set of plugins to display profile summaries, full profiles, company profiles and “company insider.” This last plugin shows customized information about a company including who, in the logged-in person’s network, works there, a list of new hires and job changes, and even the ability to follow such news. That’s the other big offering – a LinkedIn login that supports OAuth 2.0. The ease with which these features can be implemented will likely be the most exciting point for many non-developers. The plugins take a couple lines of code that can be copied and pasted into a site’s code. All you need to do to get a plugin is go to LinkedIn’s plugin gallery (as seen below), click on the “Get It” button and paste the code into the site.”

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