MarketingVOX: LinkedIn is the latest website planning a makeover. Its muse is the much-celebrated social network Facebook, reports Mashable.

The social network for professionals will open its back doors to programmers, just like Facebook did last month. The decision resulted in an apparently limitless march of new features for users.

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