Linkedin Blog

How would you describe LinkedIn to a friend or family member? That’s exactly the question we wanted to answer when we started working with the fine folks at CommonCraft to make a video explaining LinkedIn. Yes, the same folks who brought you “Social Networking in Plain English”!

Since our video is actually ready, I won’t bog down this post by reiterating what LinkedIn is and why I think it’s so great. I’ll just let you watch the video that explains simply what value LinkedIn adds to your professional life.

I’ve been waiting for a while to use that headline in a blog post Recently, we reached a great milestone in our business – 1 million members in India.  Between those of us at LinkedIn who are from India originally (including our very own Blogger-In-Chief Mario Sundar), and those of us who spend time there, there are a lot of us who are both personally and professionally excited about this achievement.

But we can’t take all the credit – it’s the enthusiasm and success of our members that has driven this growth.

Following the announcement of LinkedIn News we regularly been shipping improvements and built on top of the existing functionality.  We are continuously adding companies that are able to see news as well as news queries that should be relevant for those companies. Additionally we are constantly adding new sources for which we pull, we have added news sharing, company discussions around news articles, and last week Armin Ahumada improved how you can recommend an article and Eishay Smith improved how we add syndicated feeds (such as RSS and ATOM) to our fetcher.

1. Recommendation Improvements

Despite the foreboding, Matrix-esque connotation, I was excited to become truly LinkedIn. My previous internships were interesting and educational, but I was looking forward to working in a younger, faster company. And, wow! LinkedIn delivers on that. By the end of day one I was set up with envy-inspiring equipment (fully-loaded MacBook Pro, giant Cinema display, and super comfy chair!), friendly, helpful colleagues, and all the tools I needed to start working on my first project, OpenSocial widgets.