LinkedIn News Roundup | It’s all about LinkedIn’s News!
This past week, saw a lot of press and blog attention showered on our most recent announcements; LinkedIn’s redesigned home page (featuring LinkedIn News) and LinkedIn’s Intelligent Application Platform. Given below are the highlights of that coverage (Top 5 from Press and Blog posts respectively):
Press
1. New York Times | LinkedIn opens site to developers
LinkedIn said it wants to be a hub for business information.
“When we look forward to 2008, we see people and professionals more and more going beyond the connections and actually using LinkedIn to make themselves more productive on a daily basis,” said Adam Nash, senior product director, in a video on LinkedIn’s blog.
2. CNN Money | Why you’ll finally use LinkedIn
The buttoned down social network has a new CEO, a growing membership and an increasingly useful set of new features.
3. Reuters | LinkedIn courts developers, lands Business Week deal
LinkedIn will open up its service on Monday to outside software developers, starting with
BusinessWeek magazine, to transform itself from an online contacts and referral database into an indispensable daily tool for business users.
4. LA Times | The business of business ties is booming
Perhaps with that goal in mind, Mountain View, Calif.-based LinkedIn is rolling out a new look and new features today. LinkedIn will deliver customized news feeds based on the company and industry in which a user works and introduce applications to help professionals connect,
collaborate and share information, said Forrester Research analyst Jeremiah Owyang.
5. Business Week | LinkedIn Makes its Move
On Monday, LinkedIn is making it clear that itâs far from a has-been. In fact, Nielsen numbers recently showed LinkedIn growing at a faster rate than Facebook.
Blogs
1. TechCrunch | LinkedIn API and homepage drawing near
As a better destination, LinkedIn would experience higher levels of user engagement and more page views, which in turn would translate into greater advertising revenue.
2. CNET | LinkedIn revamps interface, opens APIs
It’s a sensible upgrade, building on LinkedInâs business focus. Over time, LinkedIn will look more like a personal professional portal than simply place to network with business associates.
3. Venture Beat | LinkedIn launches platform – a better business social network
LinkedIn’s new features now put it a step ahead of the competition. In sum, LinkedIn is trying to cement itself as the center of business networking by creating a set of features that make its large database of business relations more valuable.
4. Silicon Alley Insider | No NWS News; but plenty of new features
To sum up: They’re designed to make the business person’s social network that much more sticky, and from what we can tell, they seem potentially cool!
5. Read/Write Web | Linked Announcement: The Good News and the Bad
This is something we’ve been really looking forward to. There’s so much potential here. The coolest thing LinkedIn announced was the Business Week Partnership
For a more in-depth chronology of blogosphere coverage, check out TechMeme’s thread on the day of the announcement.
Wondering what announcements we made earlier this week? Here’s a recap of all the announcements (with video interviews):
2. Intelligent Application Platform by Lucian Beebe
3. LinkedIn News by Allen Blue
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Michael E. Williams December 18th, 2007
The new beta is an improvement…in seeing how much 9pt font you can put into a space as possible. I guess I need glasses anyway…thanks for the reminder.
On the new beta, its functional indeed…and contains more info than I probably can absorb. My first thought that is some new marketing head is trying to get the site to become a bit more Sticky and he/she thinks that means cramming as much 9pt Arial characters on one page is how to do that. I dont agree with that school of thought.
I also noticed that you guys are following suit behind MySpace with this “Facebook- knockoff” look. Granted, I do love facebook, their system is far more robust than LinkedIn. I am happy you are cleaning up your spaghetti code,getting rid of iframes and so much flash and using some of the newer CSS and Silverlight inline code that can be found in tools like FaceBook. I do applaudt that! But…I would have tried to be a little unique guys…in the layout.
You look like a bit like a washed out FaceBook with too much info, too small fonts, and a very large streaming ad banner front and center (the one I saw just now is Bright Orange for AT&T). Also, looks like you are streaming from a CDN like EyeWonder or something and that thing keeps going and going like the Energizer Bunny. Its very distracting. When you are sifting through that much small font and text, the banner needs to stop after 4 frames.
But, I do think its moving along nicely. Please fix the bug on the “whos viewed my profile”. It rarely shows up on my Login page anymore. There is no telling when I will see it…and, lately its been covered up by ads.
Stick to what made you guys the success you are. Dont try to be a Google or a MySpace. And tell that marketing person to use a 12pt font for people like me!
Kathie M. Thomas December 24th, 2007
The new beta News is not really something I want to see on my homepage, at least not what’s been selected for me. For some reason I’ve been lumped with a company not even remotely connected to me but because it has the same acronym as my own business it now shows news relevant to them but not to me. But there appears no way for me to switch it off. I guess since it’s Beta it’s still being tested but feel it’s important that if it’s being targeted towards specific groups that others don’t get swept up in groups they don’t belong to.