2007's Top 5 LinkedIn Blog posts
This past year has seen the consolidation of the LinkedIn Blog as the source for all information about LinkedIn Features, Events, and LinkedIn News in general.
Here's a quick recap of the Top 5 most widely read posts on our blog this past year.
#5: The LinkedIn API Opportunity:
The first blog post written by Lucian Beebe attracted a lot of attention due to enhanced interest swirling around the launch of social networking platforms.
We recognize that there are literally hundreds of places and ways to use your LinkedIn network in your professional life. APIs will allow you to literally “take your professionalnetwork with you” as you go through your work day, using your network on the sites you visit to get things done.
#4: Guess who's viewed your profile:
Steven Stegman describes a brand new features which happened to be one of the frequently requested feature. It was also one of the early blog posts that received traction on blog discussion sites like TechMeme.
This was an interesting product for us to design: as the profile owner, we understand you'd like to see exactly who's viewed your profile, but as a profile viewer, you want your privacy protected. We recently figured out an elegant solution that works for everyone: instead of
showing you exactly who's viewed your profile, we'll show you some interesting information about the users' industry or company background without revealing their identity.
A post written by Adam Nash, following his presentation at Google.
LinkedIn is proud to be participating in this week's launch of Open Social, a new set of open APIs to allow developers to easily build and deploy social applications across the web. Open Social is only part of the larger story for LinkedIn about leveraging the power of your professional network, both on and off the LinkedIn site.
#2: LinkedIn's Intelligent Application Platform (with video):
A follow-up to Lucian's earlier post on the API Opportunity. This post had Lucian elaborating on the themes he'd introduced in his earlier post, a few months ago.
Several months ago, we announced we are working on APIs and a platform strategy for software developers to integrate with LinkedIn and display their application within LinkedIn. With the OpenSocial announcements, you can now see a lot more about how you can write applications that run inside LinkedIn. So, if you are a developer, what opportunities do you now have?
#1: LinkedIn News, Redesigned home page and more (with video):
The most popular blog post covered the December announcements we made surrounding the redesigned homepage.
The past few weeks have seen the release of a slew of features that have helped augment your experience of LinkedIn; features ranging from refined network updates to the ability to add a photo to your profile. Today, we're glad to announce the next step in that evolution - a completely redesigned homepage as well as further details on LinkedIn's Intelligent Application Platform. In this post we hope to give you a quick snapshot of what's new on LinkedIn today.
Stay tuned to the LinkedIn Blog for the latest and greatest on LinkedIn throughout the year. Subscribe to our blog if you haven't already.
Happy New Year 2008!