SocialMail links in to LinkedIn
by Daniel on Apr.16, 2010, under SocialMail
It took a while however I am most pleased to present the first SocialMail plugin, smLinkedIn. The plugin grabs information from LinkedIn for those contacts that we have profile URLs for.
Right now it presents
- Headline
- Company/Job information
- How you’re connected
- URL’s
The plugin also allows you to send LinkedIn Connection requests to your contacts, so you can continue to expand your LinkedIn. Also you can post status updates to LinkedIn. A word of caution, if you’ve already connected Twitter to your LinkedIn account, don’t use SocialMail to post updates for both networks as it will cause double posts to LinkedIn.
In order to use this, you must have SocialMail 0.3 or higher installed and then download and install the Linkedin extension : smlinkedin_v0.1.2(right click, Save As. Then install into Thunderbird as per a normal addon)
Hope you find this useful.
-Daniel
April 17th, 2010 on 10:59 pm
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April 21st, 2010 on 8:45 pm
Great work, I only try to use it and select the PIN button but nothing happens. Using smLinkedin on Linux.
April 22nd, 2010 on 7:55 am
Thanks for the bug report. I’ll have A look and see whats wrong. Can you have look in the thunderbird error consoe and post any relevant messages.
-Daniel
April 22nd, 2010 on 5:45 pm
Error: com.networklighthouse.socialMail.linkedinPrefs is undefined
Source File: chrome://socialmail/content/socialMailPrefs.xul
Line: 1
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIXPCComponents_Utils.import]” nsresult: “0×80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)” location: “JS frame :: chrome://smlinkedin/content/smlinkedinPrefs.js :: anonymous :: line 6″ data: no]
April 22nd, 2010 on 8:43 pm
Also the dialog for linkedin does mention twitter
April 22nd, 2010 on 9:19 pm
Great, I know the problem and should be able to fix it, travelling for the weekend so won’t be able to look at it till Monday, good thing I’ve got the day off.
Thanks for the heads up about the text, I’ll get that sorted as well. Look out for a new version Monday.
April 23rd, 2010 on 4:17 am
I also noticed that the graph of when the user email’s does not always update to reflect the sender of the email currently displayed. In a couple of cases the graph updated but did not reflect the correct values, specifically the graph had 6 vertical lines in one case, but the sent/received value showed only 0/2. How did we end up with 6 unique times to plot in the graph when there are only 2 emails to pull times from?
That said, amazing tool. Please keep up the good work.
April 23rd, 2010 on 12:32 pm
Youve touched on a bit of a problem spot for me. The sent/received counts show emails that socialmail actually processed(have been viewed since sm was installed). Where as the graph show all emails in the mailbox from that sender. The reason I haven’t changed the counts to use the same method as the graph is that the query used is expensive in terms of CPU time and I haven’t yet worked out how to use the result set for both jobs.
-Daniel
May 3rd, 2010 on 9:11 am
It took me a little longer than I thought to fix this, mainly due to needing to find 30 minutes to sit down and look at it properly. As I suspected it was a case sensitivity issue again (i for an I). Thats sorted now so the new version (linked above) should work for Linux and Mac users.
May 12th, 2010 on 2:33 pm
Daniel,
First off, this is a great extension for Thunderbird. I really love it.
I’ve tried to enable LinkedIn, but it tells me at the bottom of the Social Mail pane that “LinkedIn Login failed.” I don’t know why that is, though, because in the settings panel, I did the oauth authentication and it said it worked. Any ideas on how to fix this?
Also, I think the version number for the download available on this page is still 0.1.1.
Thanks again for this awesome extension!
May 13th, 2010 on 12:23 pm
Thanks Chris,
It’s always good to hear from people who enjoy using socialmail.
With regards to your problem there are a couple of bits of information I need before I can understand the issue.
Firstly have a look in the Thunderbird error console for any errors relating to sm. (go through the oAuth process again as well to make sure it went through properly).
Secondly go into the thunderbird config editor(if you don’t. Know where this is ask and I’ll point you in the right direction) and search for “socialmail linkedin”. You should see two keys I think they are accessToken and accessTokenSecret (do not post these they are equivalent to your linkedin password) but can you confirm if they have a value or are blank?
This should get us moving and hopefully point out where the problem is.
-Daniel
May 13th, 2010 on 1:42 pm
Thanks for the quick response, Daniel. I find no errors in the error console relating to LinkedIn, but there are quite a few CSS errors (like “Warning: Cannot specify value for internal property. Error in parsing value for ‘border-right-width-rtl-source’. Declaration dropped.
Source File: chrome://socialmail/content/socialMail.css
Line: 57″).
There are values for both keys.
I’ve noticed that the LinkedIn Login failure notification is no longer at the bottom of the SocialMail pane. But, the LinkedIn tab is greyed out for anyone I click on. So, I guess my question is now, how do I know the LinkedIn plugin is working?
Thanks again for your help.
May 13th, 2010 on 5:12 pm
Sounds like everything is working then. The linkedin tab stays greyed out unles the contact has a known linkedin profile, you can test this by manually adding a linkedin public profile to a contact.
Sorry about the css warnings I’ll fix those in the next release.
-Daniel
May 14th, 2010 on 1:58 pm
How do I manually add a LinkedIn profile to a contact?
May 15th, 2010 on 6:08 am
There’s a [+] sign on the right hand side next to the social network icons. Click it and then click add in the popup window.
June 10th, 2010 on 4:59 am
Hi Daniel,
where is the file in smlinkedin_v0.1.2.zip I should add to thunderbird to get the Linked In connection?
Best Lars
June 10th, 2010 on 8:29 am
Hi Lars
Not sure how you ended up with a zip file, likely some sort of file detection magic. Anyway just change the extension to .xpi and add it like any other thunderbird addon.
Daniel
October 1st, 2010 on 10:18 pm
Hi Daniel,
I installed Social Mail in Thunderbird for Ubuntu and it works fine. When installing smlinkedin I get the following message:
“LinkedIn for Social Mail 0.1.1 could not be installed because it is not compatible with Thunderbird 3.1.4″
My Add-ons says my SocialMail is version 0.4.5 and doesn’t find any newer release.
What am I doing wrong?
October 12th, 2010 on 9:09 pm
Hi Christian,
You’re doing nothing wrong, I’ve just been very slow in getting an update out. It will be a few more weeks until semester is out (and who said it was a good idea to start studying again anyhow) and I have time to fix this properly and then I’ll start working on SocialMail development again.
-Daniel