Today we are excited to announce new platform capabilities that will enable app developers to bring even more LinkedIn insights to our members, through their apps.
As a web developer at LinkedIn, I spend most of my time thinking about new user experiences for visualizing professional data. During our most recent Hackday at LinkedIn, I had the opportunity to share one of these ideas with the rest of the company. I’m also excited to say that the LinkedIn Connection Timeline is now live on LinkedIn Labs!
Once a month at LinkedIn, we set aside a Friday for employees to think creatively, work on inspirational and innovative projects and focus on investing in themselves and their community. It’s a day to spend time outside their daily task list.
In the past, this has meant a series of inspirational inDay Speakers, a ping pong tournament and raffle to benefit charity, financial education classes, LinkedIn Olympics and hosting eighth graders from an underperforming school to show them how doing well in school translates into getting a great job at a great company.
As you can imagine, we are constantly working on improving our site security measures. Among others, we currently support SSL technology (Secure Sockets Layer) for logins and other sensitive pages such as member settings. SSL ensures that the information between your computer and LinkedIn servers is encrypted so it cannot be snooped on.
In addition, we are accelerating our existing plans to extend SSL support across the entire site on an opt-in basis. We are also going to reduce the lifespan of our authentication cookies to better protect our members.
