There are some bad ideas in the world and then there is the LinkedIn Intro application. Frankly, I'm not really certain as to what they were thinking with this one.

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LinkedIn’s language about the release makes it clear it will not be sharing information with outside social networks – and there are quite a lot of situations in which Intro won’t tack on ...