“Today, Microsoft announces [1] an exciting new addition to the upcoming Microsoft Office 2010 – the Outlook Social Connector. The Outlook Social Connector is designed to seamlessly bring communications history as well as business and social networking feeds into your Outlook experience.”
While not available currently, it will be available for 2003, 2007 as well as 2010 early next year. The details that are currently available look very interesting.
Another tool with LinkedIn functionality is Xobni. Read more [3]