Playing 3rd string, BlackBerry now has a LinkedIn app, right behind the iPhone and Palm’s webOS. No more do BlackBerry users need to rely on the mobile site, the app will allow users to access messages and all the social networking fun that LinkedIn provides. The App is available now. “With the addition of the more »

How ironic: LinkedIn – indeed any social network – is all about making a connection. Yet thanks to the blizzard of coverage generated by the professional-themed network’s new $53 million-dollar round of funding, all I saw when I first tried to get on LinkedIn were error messages saying “connection interrupted” (Firefox) or “the server unexpectedly dropped the connection, which sometimes occurs when the server is busy” (Safari).

Yep, a New York Times story and ton of links on top content aggregators like Techmeme will do that to you.

As part of the its commitment to data portability, Microsoft Live has teamed up with 5 top social networks to facilitate and make it easier for members of those social networks who are also using the Windows Live Messenger to import their address book from their social networking profiles into the Windows Live contacts list.

Using Windows Live Contacts API, members of Facebook, Bebo, LinkedIn, Tagged and Hi5 can logged in to these social networks and see which of their friends are using the Windows Live Contacts API. LinkedIn, Tagged and Hi5 users will have to wait a little while though as it is currently available for Facebook and Bebo users only.