“LinkedIn focused on enhancing the productivity of the professional world. With that in mind, we will only work with select business partners who have already built high value, high productivity applications” said Blue, according to InternetNews.com.

Among the elements of the new LinkedIn site will be a series of useful widgets and a LinkedIn Answers feature that will allow users to ask other people in the network questions, similar to Google Answers or Yahoo Answers.

The Intelligent Applications Platform - called “InApps” – announced simultaneously to the site’s redesign, will integrate its features into outside developers’ sites, allowing them to create software for LinkedIn. As a partner in Google’s OpenSocial network, LinkedIn’s representatives have said that InApps structure will include “the ability to develop applications that will run within LinkedIn using the OpenSocial development model.”

According to a statement made by LinkedIn CEO Dan Nye, “the goal of the Intelligent Applications Platform is to help make our users more effective by providing them with access to the intelligence of their professional network both on LinkedIn and on other sites they visit to get work done. Our focus is 100 percent professional, so we will be working with select partners to build high value, high productivity applications.”