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Articles posted in May 2011

  • When LinkedIn met the Fortune 500

    Guest Author, May 6, 2011
    This belongs to a series of posts on how websites like Fortune are integrating LinkedIn functionality. Here’s Daniel Roth, Editor, FortuneDigital, on the recent integration of LinkedIn’s APIs into the Fortune 500 web app. – Ed.

    Yesterday, the Fortune 500+ Web app went live. The program takes our annual Fortune 500 list — the foremost method for ranking business — and turns it into a vital tool for doing business. Users can target 1,000 of the biggest companies in the U.S., find the right ones to meet with, track breaking news and Twitter traffic, and build, map and share lists of prospects.

    All of those features we knew we wanted when we started building this app in the fall of 2010. But the one offering we knew we had to have was some way to let users discover who they knew at each company.

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  • LinkedIn through the Years: 2920 Days Later

    Chris Saccheri, May 5, 2011

    Cinco de Mayo has always been one of our favorite days at LinkedIn, and not just because we love any excuse to eat tacos and drink margaritas. It’s because May 5th was the day we first launched LinkedIn back in 2003.

    Eight years is a long time, but in the technology world, it can seem like an eternity. Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter… none of them existed in May 2003. Neither did the iPhone or Android. Internet Explorer 6 ruled the web; Safari was in beta, Firefox was still Firebird, and Chrome was a few years away. And Justin Bieber was just another precocious Canadian nine-year-old.

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