LinkedIn Groups has always been the central place on LinkedIn for users to form communities around professional interests. Thus far, users have used Groups to search and contact one another. But, today's release adds the most requested feature of them all - Group Discussions. This is the first step in [...]
When Scott Rafer contacted the MyBlogLog co-founders - Eric Marcoullier and Todd Sampson on LinkedIn, they were both "working on something cool". Scott, a serial entrepreneur who knows a valuable company when he sees one, was in between companies - Feedster and (soon to be) MyBlogLog. Well, let's hear it [...]
I've got some exciting news for iPhone lovers as I'm here to announce LinkedIn's very own native iPhone app. Based on the same back end which serves LinkedIn mobile, LinkedIn iPhone App provides users with a quicker response and more features; basically the complete mobile experience for professional networkers. In [...]
During the summer of 2008, LinkedIn participated in the Palo Alto city coed softball league. We faced some fierce competition, playing against teams representing other companies. The LinkedIn team was composed of all skill levels, including some first time cricket to softball converts who knew exactly how to crush the [...]
Our featured question this week is from Seth Caplan, a young Hollywood producer, who asks his network, "Do you want to see more independent films in theaters?" It's a timely question to ask, as Seth has a film opening at limited theaters this weekend. "How do we now cut through [...]
In Light Engineering (LED), we’re known to be multilingual – depending on the project, we’ve been known to speak Perl, Python, Java, C++, Javascript and PHP, to name a few. Our weapon of choice is still Ruby on Rails, the popular MVC framework. Out belief is that Rails makes certain [...]
Continuing our series of posts on how LinkedIn has made a difference in users' careers, let's focus our attention today on the advertising industry. Dave Smith is the CEO of Mediasmith, a media planning and buying agency, who found two of his biggest clients on LinkedIn. Here's what Mediasmith does [...]
In our continuing series on LinkedIn users who find professional success with the site, we turn to downtown Los Angeles, where Sasha Strauss, Founder and Managing Director of Innovation Protocol, has built his business on referrals — most of which, he tells us, have come through LinkedIn. Innovation Protocol is [...]
On Tuesday, Brad Neuberg from Google's Developer Program visited LinkedIn's headquarters in Mountain View to give a presentation on Gears to the engineering department as part of our series of LinkedIn Tech Talks. Gears is an open source project that enables more powerful web applications, and provides for a better [...]
Continuing our series of posts on how LinkedIn has made a difference in users' careers, let's focus our attention today on the advertising industry. Dave Smith is the CEO of MediaSmith, a media planning and buying agency, who found two of his biggest clients on LinkedIn. Here's what MediaSmith does [...]
Following our Spanish launch video last week, our faithful readers may have come away with the impression that the entire LinkedIn team is fluent in Spanish, and that we mix this popular Romance language casually with colloquial English and the roughneck slang of Silicon Valley. But here's the startling truth: [...]
You can never go wrong by starting off the week with LinkedIn Answers' question of the week. Hopefully, with each passing question that we highlight, you get to stumble upon yet another category that you did not realize existed within Answers' extensive ecosystem. This week, we focus on a category [...]
The LinkedIn Intelligent Application Platform is all about surfacing LinkedIn where you need and want it most. Writing or reading an email? LinkedIn should be there, providing context between you and your contacts. Xobni is an ideal remedy to the pursuit of context — and now with Xobni's LinkedIn integration, [...]
We live in a global economy and now more than ever, collaborating across borders is a reality for professionals all over the world. Whether we are looking for a trusted partner or understanding how to approach a potential client, we all must reach beyond our national frontiers and seek knowledge [...]
I have been working for LinkedIn for the summer. It has been a fantastic experience throughout, but today, it definitely reached a high point when I saw my sports hero and professional passion come together. I???ve been a Yao Ming[...]
Last Thursday, Kevin Brown visited LinkedIn's Mountain View office to do a presentation on Shindig, an OpenSocial Reference Implementation. Below are my notes from his talk. In September 2007, Google started thinking about Social APIs. Google Gadgets would be better with access to Social Data ... but that's just Google. [...]
As the world's largest and fastest-growing professional network, LinkedIn is a fantastic place for businesses of all sizes to reach professionals with targeted messaging. That's why today we're announcing LinkedIn DirectAds, a new online product designed for LinkedIn members who[...]
This is my first post on the LinkedIn Blog that I write less than a month since I started here as Vice President of People Operations. I became a member of LinkedIn the day the site launched on May 5,[...]
Since we launched the LinkedIn Store almost 8 months ago we've been adding items and accessories at regular intervals for all LinkedIn Fans. The most recent store update was radical, both in terms of the look-and-feel as well as a[...]
How many times have you thought to yourself? Wouldn't it be nice if I could search through my Inbox on LinkedIn. We are really glad to announce this much requested feature this week, close on the heels of the LinkedIn[...]
