LinkedIn Will Kill RSS Support on December 19. LinkedIn yesterday quietly sent out an email to some of its users announcing that its Network RSS feed will be retired on December 19. The company has thus given a week’s notice for the feature. For those who have never used it before, the RSS feed allowed users to subscribe to their network updates via an RSS reader. The feed included the latest activity from people in your LinkedIn network, just like the LinkedIn homepage. There are two main reasons for the feature’s removal. The first is the same one we’ve heard before: LinkedIn says it wants to focus its resources elsewhere (just like Google said when it announced Google Reader’s retirement). The second isn’t given explicitly, but LinkedIn alludes to it by saying that all updates and content can still be viewed on its website or via its mobile apps. For reference, here’s the full email: More LinkedIn Predictions for 2013. By: Viveka Tuesday January 1, 2013 I want to send a huge thank you out to LinkedIn buddy Rui Pedro Caramez of @LinkedPortugal who originally wrote these predictions in Portuguese, and then translated them for us so I could post them here.
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