SiliconBeat

I’ve been using LinkedIn for so long, I can’t really remember when I first signed up. You can find my profile here. At times, I take it for granted, and at other times I find it to be the most useful social networking service I use.

I was drawn back to it Tuesday night when I got an email me alerting me to a new application directory:

“Today we’re announcing many more ways to interact with your network on LinkedIn. Whether it’s a new way to create projects and collaborate, share information, customize your profile, or gain key insights, the new LinkedIn Applications deliver.”

The first app I tried to add was a Wordpress application. But for some reason, all I got was an error message saying it was “unable to fetch my blog.” Hopefully, that’s just a beta glitch.

Will these applications get me to spend more time at LinkedIn? We’ll see.