LinkedIn's New Free Apps, Part Two

02.12.2008
In , we looked at presentation, file sharing and travel applications that helped you collaborate with your fellow connections on the professional social network.

In this part two of the Apps Review, we chronicle the rest of them. You'll find some similarities to the apps in part one, and this is no accident: LinkedIn seemed intent on giving users choices based on their services of choice.

Amazon Reading List

The Amazon Reading List for LinkedIn is pretty straightforward: you share what you're reading with your LinkedIn connections. It starts by allowing you to search for a book title, such as, for example, "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy.

Once it pulls up the book you want, you can choose a status for it on your reading list. These status options include, "I read it," "I want to read it," or "I'm reading it now." If you click on "I read it," you also have the option to check off a box that says "I recommend it."

In addition to "Your Reading List," there are two additional tabs in the app: "Network Updates" and "Industry Updates." The first centers around books your connections are reading. You can follow specific people in your LinkedIn Connections list by clicking on the "Who's Watching Who" list.