Linkedin Blog

Many users have asked us for a RSS feed of Network Updates and as I’d commented over two weeks ago, we now allow you to subscribe to your network updates via RSS!  Find the ubiquitous orange RSS logo right next to the Network Updates sign on LinkedIn’s homepage, right below the LinkedIn News module. Click here to be taken to the LinkedIn RSS Subscriptions page

Once you click through that you’ll be taken to this landing page, which provides you the option to subscribe to an RSS feed of Network Updates.

LinkedIn Mobile is an exciting project not just for mobile users but also mobile developers. The application is built using Ruby on Rails. On the back end, it makes use of the new LinkedIn APIs to RESTfully communicate with the LinkedIn business logic layer as well as memcache for boosting application performance.

On the front end, we use the Rails custom format facilities to generate custom views for mobile (WAP) and iPhone. In order to make WAP work for most phones in the market, we restrict ourselves to XHTML MP Basic and WCSS. We also designed the app to ensure a good UI experience, even on phones that have CSS support disabled.

Most of you reading this post have probably read my most recent announcement when we announced APIs and a platform strategy for developers to integrate LinkedIn into their applications, wherever it may be on the web. My my most recent post outlined how Apec, one of the largest job sites in France, integrates LinkedIn functionality into their site. Given below are a couple more examples of similar implementations: BusinessWeek and SimplyHired (with video demos):

BusinessWeek LinkedIn API Implementation

LinkedIn has been really proud to work with Apec to develop the APIs required for them to tightly integrate your LinkedIn network with their job hunting web site.

If you are in France, then Apec needs no introduction. For the rest of you, Apec is a nonprofit organization that offers job listings and career resources to French professionals, and is one of France’s largest job sites. But Apec doesn’t just list job postings. They want to help you find a job and build your career in every way they can. So, they have offices throughout France to help you in person.