Saturday, 15 January 2011

Cubeduel Goes Viral Too Quickly, Stumbles Over LinkedIn API Limits

Yesterday we ran a post about Cubeduel, a service that mixes the best (or worst) of Hot or Not with LinkedIn. Fire up the site and it will show you photos of two coworkers ? pick the one you'd prefer to work with, and Cubeduel will present you with another pair of photos. It's addictive, a bit evil, and has skyrocketed in usage over the last few days since it launched. Unfortunately, it took off a bit too quickly. The service went down earlier today for reasons that were initially unclear ?�did LinkedIn block the site because it ranks coworkers in a way that isn't exactly flattering to everyone, or did the site just get too popular, too fast? Turns out it's the latter ? Cubeduel has exceeded LinkedIn's API limits (which is what one of the site's creators, Tony Wright, initially guessed). Here's an explanation from LinkedIn Director of Communications Hani Durzy:

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