Linkedin Blog

Your LinkedIn Profile is an essential part of your online professional identity. Whether you’re a published author, a researcher with a list of patented inventions, a job-seeker who wants to showcase your certifications and skill-sets, or a multilingual global professional, we know that you want to get the most out of your profile.

We’re constantly listening to our users and one of the most requested features has been customizable profile sections. Starting today, you will be able to customize your LinkedIn profile with five new profile sections.

Every month, our company celebrates “InDay”, a day when LinkedIn employees from around the world are encouraged to spend their time focused on research, learning and developing concepts outside of their normal routine. For employees who like to learn through execution, we throw a Hackday contest on every InDay.

This concept began with an impromptu hackday held over the 2007 holiday break and has now grown to a company-wide event (including an American Idol style panel of judges). Teams are given just five minutes to demo their hack in front of the entire company, and judges get just two minutes to ask questions.

I’m glad to announce that LinkedIn for iPhone v3.3 has been approved and will be live in the app store shortly. The latest version of our iPhone app comes packed with goodies, most important of which is the ability to glean business intelligence from your trusted connections’ updates. Not only does the new version of the LinkedIn application offer an enhanced user experience, but it also allows you to stay up-to-date with what people are saying about your company, school or alma mater, as well as your favorite brands.

Download: LinkedIn for iPhone v3.3

At LinkedIn, we believe that every business application would be fundamentally better if it was built over a platform of your professional reputation and relationships.  We first opened our platform last November with our OAuth-based REST APIs on developer.linkedin.com.

Thousands of developers are now building applications over the LinkedIn Platform, and we’ve learned quite a bit from them.  Today, I’m thrilled to announce an early access version of new technology that makes developing an application with LinkedIn even easier: our new, easy-to-use Javascript API.