LinkedIn Mobile (iPhone) with better communication features
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.
For iPhone, we implemented our own small (< 4KB) javascript library to enhance the user experience with features including AJAX loading in background, alphabar on Contacts page, and DOM page caching. The result is rewarding the interface is responsive even on a slow network.
Since we launched LinkedIn Mobile, we are pleased to receive many feature requests from the users and we would like to let you know that we are working hard on them. In the last few weeks, we introduced the following features:
* Sending messages to your connections via LinkedIn
* See status updates in your network
* Browse your connections’ connections
In addition to the above three features, you can also email your connections from your handset and you’ll definitely notice a quicker access to your LinkedIn app on the iPhone. Yes, we just made your iPhone experience better, faster and more productive.
Please continue to send us feedback and thank you for using LinkedIn Mobile. Check out below my original video on LinkedIn Mobile – a crash course on accessing LinkedIn on your iPhone.
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http://blog.linkedin.com/2008/03/28/linkedin-mobile/trackback/
Sachendra Yadav March 28th, 2008
I connect to linked daily for 2 reasons:
1 network updates
2 LinkedIn answers
Yet LinkedIn answers in not there in any of your mobile offerings. Please add a small link to Answers as well.
Colin White April 11th, 2008
I like it a lot.
It’s made LinkedIn even more addictive :-)
Nice work.
Nikolai April 13th, 2008
Jerry,
Could you please provide short instructions how to download and install this application onto mobile phone?
Thanks
ARUNACHALAM RAMANANATHAN April 21st, 2008
I need to get connected to all HR’s and Oracle DBA’s in India and abroad. I am trying for Oracle DBA openings now. I have completed my MCA with OCP. My preferred location would be CHENNAI, BANGALORE AND HYDERABAD IN INDIA.
Mikko Kaarela April 25th, 2008
Another missing feature are the messages. In mobile mode I receive the notifications that i have received messages, but can’t read them.
Devesh May 2nd, 2008
Good job… iphone + LI = Super Addiction
I second Sachendra’s response/ request. WE need a Q&A link there as well.
Harold June 11th, 2008
I can’t believe I didn’t discover this any sooner, but I happy to have the app on my iPhone. Seems pretty straight forward and easily to use. I especially like the update feature so I don’t have to access LinkedIn via my computer anymore.
Thanks
Ehab Elagaty July 17th, 2008
I have had a look at m.linkedin.com as well as the standard linkedin.com page using my i-mate, but i couldn’t accept invitations from the mobile site or accept all using the standard site as I could using a PC.
Ehab Elagaty
http://www.linkedin.com/in/sapnetwork
Gareth James September 9th, 2009
Any news on this app working on a Blackberry or Android platform?
Mike Lazarus November 24th, 2009
Would really like to include LinkedIN Groups… these have become the most useful area for me and I’d love to have an off-line search-able version of this.
For security, maybe the Group Manager can turn on/off the ability for this to be done