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Changes in Facebook and LinkedIn Integration Features

Thursday June 4, 2015   |   News & Updates , Plugin Upgrades   |   Leave a Comment

Facebook and LinkedIn have recently updated their "Integration API Policies". Because of this, the Facebook and LinkedIn tabs will not be displayed in our "Advanced Activity Feeds / Wall Plugin".

 

Amendments in LinkedIn's API Policies from May 12, 2015:

 

Earlier, LinkedIn used to provide a permission: 'rw_nus' in their API which was being used by us to display feeds from LinkedIn. However, LinkedIn has now deprecated this permission.

 

LinkedIn has created a new permission in their API: 'w_share', which will only be used to post content on LinkedIn as a LinkedIn member, but it will not be used to access feeds of users' LinkedIn profiles.

 

So, because of these API changes by LinkedIn, websites using our "Advanced Activity Feeds / Wall Plugin" will not be able to show LinkedIn Feeds to their users.

 

For LinkedIn's API changes announcement, please visit their post here: https://developer.linkedin.com/support/developer-program-transition.

 

These API changes have also affected LinkedIn Inviter. LinkedIn has launched some Partner Programs (https://developer.linkedin.com/partner-programs), and our development team is exploring them to see how we can work on making our LinkedIn inviter feature compatible with them.

 

Amendments in Facebook's API Policies from April 30, 2015:

 

Last year, we had written about extensive changes in Facebook's API. In brief: "Facebook is shutting down its API that gave users' friends' data to apps". Because of this, we have revised our plugins' features and fuctionalities. 

 

Our "Advanced Activity Feeds / Wall Plugin" and "Facebook Friends and Inviter" plugins (previously named: "Facebook News Feed, Friends Inviter & more") provided the feature of Facebook News Feeds display till now. However, these plugins will not be providing this feature anymore because of Facebook's new API restrictions.

 

Facebook's API changes have also affected the working of Facebook Friends Inviter in our plugins: "Facebook Friends and Inviter", "Suggestions / Recommendations / People you may know & Inviter" and "People you may know / Friend Suggestions & Inviter". We're making changes in these plugins and will be releasing their upgrades in about 2 weeks with updated Facebook Inviter.

 

[Note: To get the latest version of "Advanced Activity Feeds / Wall Plugin" on your website, please upgrade this plugin on your website to its latest version available in your SocialEngineAddOns Client Area.]

 

Clients who have subscribed to our "Basic" or "Plus" subscription plans can send us a request for upgrading this product on their website by creating a new Support Ticket from their SocialEngineAddOns Client Area. If you have not yet subscribed to any of our plans, then you can do so from here to avail the numerous benefits that come with them.

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