Has anyone else noticed LinkedIn becoming increasingly hostile towards small consumers of its API? I feel like the first straw was the non-active positions being pulled from developers followed by secondary and tertiary connections.

I don't dev on the LinkedIn API but as I understand it now, only their large enterprise partnerships have access to a number of features, and it looks like, from the sound of this, that that is only going to get worse.

Is it possible to have an API-first public company? It's sort of like asking if it's possible to have an open, api-accessible data-warehouse (I think the answer is no, but maybe I'm wrong).

I actually thought this service made LinkedIn somewhat useful. It's a loss for LinkedIn in my book.

I have no idea what API changes caused this, but all this process of closing down ecosystems by locking down the public APIs makes the next public API less likely to be adopted, and we all lose in the end.

I was under the impression that LinkedIn already does this, I constantly receive notifications from them alerting me when a connection has taken up a new job or job title. Why the need for this app?

If anyone is looking for an alternative, we have similar service called "Radar" that will send you a weekly update on who has recently switched jobs or gotten promoted.

It also predicts who in your network is potentially looking for a new job based on their recent LinkedIn activity.

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