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posted by LaminatorX on Sunday March 09 2014, @07:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the weakest-link dept.

regift_of_the_gods writes:

"The makers of Nutshell CRM, a web-based service for managing sales leads and workflow (screenshots here), have notified their customers that they will no longer able to populate profiles with data from Linkedin accounts, after Linkedin informed Nutshell that it was violating the developer API's terms of use over a year and half after Nutshell first announced the feature. It's hard to argue that Nutshell's Linkedin integration feature does not violate the Linkedin Developer API Terms of Service (specifically section C: 'If your application falls into one or more of the following categories, you are required to be part of one of our Partner Programs and have a signed agreement with LinkedIn... applications used for hiring, marketing, or sales...').

However, Nutshell's CEO says Linkedin representatives also informed him they weren't accepting applications for their Partner Program from CRM vendors at this time, leaving Salesforce and Microsoft (Dynamics) as Linkedin's sole partners in that space. Also, the TOS page notes it was last revised in August 2013; it's not immediately clear whether this clause was in place when Nutshell first announced Linkedin integration in May 2012. The CEO of Zartis, which runs a web service for tracking applicants, blogged his layman's interpretation of Linkedin's Developer API TOS sometime in 2013; his post makes no mention of a prohibition for sales or marketing."

 
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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 09 2014, @11:12AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 09 2014, @11:12AM (#13526)

    At the risk of being modded offtopic myself

    You're welcome. When you posted this, this was the highest-score comment for this story, thanks to your karma bonus. Next time, consider using the "No karma bonus" checkbox on the comment form.

    At least I didn't see "I know I will be modded into oblivion for this" (usually with the opposite effect) yet on SoylentNews.

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  • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by maxwell demon on Sunday March 09 2014, @07:15PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday March 09 2014, @07:15PM (#13622) Journal

    At least I didn't see "I know I will be modded into oblivion for this" (usually with the opposite effect) yet on SoylentNews.

    I know I will be modded into oblivion for this, but now you have.

    SCNR :-)

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