Connected

Connected (Connected HQ, Inc.) was a social CRM and contact-management startup that pulled a user's address book, email and social accounts together into a single continuously-updated relationship manager. Backed by 500 Global, it was acquired by LinkedIn in October 2011 and folded into the LinkedIn-branded "Connected" product, after which the standalone service was retired. Connected never shipped a public developer program, API, SDK or documentation. The connectedhq.com domain is still defensively held by the acquirer (MarkMonitor registrar, Azure DNS and NS1 nameservers, SPF and DMARC p=reject, RFC 7505 null MX) but publishes no A record and serves no content. This profile is retained as a historical record; there is no API surface to enrich.

Connected is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Defunct, Acquired, CRM, and Contacts.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

0 APIs

CompanyDefunctAcquiredCRMContactsAddress BookRelationship ManagementSocial

Kin Score

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Source (apis.yml)

aid: connected
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/connected.png
name: Connected
description: Connected (Connected HQ, Inc.) was a social CRM and contact-management startup that pulled a user's address book,
  email and social accounts together into a single continuously-updated relationship manager. Backed by 500 Global, it was
  acquired by LinkedIn in October 2011 and folded into the LinkedIn-branded "Connected" product, after which the standalone
  service was retired. Connected never shipped a public developer program, API, SDK or documentation. The connectedhq.com
  domain is still defensively held by the acquirer (MarkMonitor registrar, Azure DNS and NS1 nameservers, SPF and DMARC p=reject,
  RFC 7505 null MX) but publishes no A record and serves no content. This profile is retained as a historical record; there
  is no API surface to enrich.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/connected/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: linkedin
x-acquired-date: 2011-10
x-domain-status: parked-by-acquirer
x-domain-note: connectedhq.com (created 2010-03-08, registry expiry 2027-03-08) remains under MarkMonitor with Azure DNS +
  NS1 nameservers and an RFC 7505 null MX, consistent with a domain held defensively by LinkedIn/Microsoft after the acquisition.
  It resolves no A or CNAME record and serves no site, so it is deliberately not wired as a Website pointer.
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Acquired
- CRM
- Contacts
- Address Book
- Relationship Management
- Social
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/connected-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v1

Connected

Kin Score

Security Posture 1

Connected Domain Security

Resources

Access & Security 1

Source (apis.yml)