Many of you are probably aware of LinkedIn Groups’ feature enhancements that we announced earlier today. In addition to those changes I’d also like to point out another much requested upgrade that launched today – one that impacts LinkedIn’s Address Book.
Starting today, we’ve made changes that allow you greater flexibility in managing your LinkedIn connections. Here are two easy steps to edit your contacts’ information on LinkedIn.
When Steve Ganz left to compete in the PDGA World Championships little did he know that he’d return to find a fast talking, “fashionably low-rate” robot built in his likeness; he may never take a vacation again! The “Ganzbot”, as we named it, was a collaborative effort from our Web Development team with participation from Jamie Still, Dennis Hengeveld, Scott Olson and me.
The robot reads quotes from the Ganzbot Twitter feed and an internal message queue that anyone in the office can submit text to. When he talks his face becomes expressive with moving eyebrows, lips synchronized to the audio and eyes that change color.
LinkedIn Groups has always been the central place on LinkedIn for users to form communities around professional interests. Thus far, users have used Groups to search and contact one another. But, today’s
adds the most requested feature of them all – Group Discussions.
This is the first step in a series of upgrades to the Groups functionality that you will be seeing in the months to come. In addition to discussions, given below are three more new feature enhancements to LinkedIn Groups:
When Scott Rafer contacted the MyBlogLog co-founders – Eric Marcoullier and Todd Sampson on LinkedIn, they were both “working on something cool”. Scott, a serial entrepreneur who knows a valuable company when he sees one, was in between companies – Feedster and (soon to be) MyBlogLog. Well, let’s hear it in his own words:
There was 6 months between Feedster (left Sept 05) and MyBlogLog (joined Mar 06). They were entirely disconnected. In Jan 06, an investor pal put the idea for a distributed social net into my head. I couldn’t get it out.
During the summer of 2008, LinkedIn participated in the Palo Alto city coed softball league. We faced some fierce competition, playing against teams representing other companies.
The LinkedIn team was composed of all skill levels, including some first time cricket to softball converts who knew exactly how to crush the ball and some fast-pitch softball players learning how to adjust to hitting a ball coming at your at 10mph instead of 60. Regardless of skill level, everyone was an all-star when it came to finding Oasis Bar and Grill after the games.