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Articles posted in June 2011

  • Millions of professionals use LinkedIn Groups to connect and share insights with like-minded professionals every day. With almost one million groups on LinkedIn, the top request we receive from group owners is to provide new ways to enable engagement within their communities. With that goal in mind, we’re announcing today that application developers can now take the rich content and engagement of LinkedIn Groups across the professional web using the new LinkedIn Groups API.

    Explore the LinkedIn Groups API

  • We’re thrilled to introduce a new way for professionals to access LinkedIn & LinkedIn Today‘s top industry news in Flipboard’s iPad app starting today. The new app includes what your friends and colleagues are sharing on LinkedIn, as well as top industry news from LinkedIn Today.

    Get Flipboard for the iPad Now!

  • Another month, another Hackday winner! This month we’d like to feature a Hackday product –LinkedIn SpeechIn – that reads out your day’s headlines from LinkedIn Today. Check out other Hackday winners here. – Ed.

    Here’s something we’re launching today that will make every professional’s work day better. Imagine if you could have your LinkedIn Today news read out to you on your phone while you’re on the go, such as when you’re driving to your office in the morning.

  • This is a continuation of our series of blog posts on Life at LinkedIn. We brought you guest posts from folks who shared some of the cool projects they’re passionate about outside of LinkedIn. This time around we interviewed our colleagues on what makes their LinkedIn experience unique. If you guys dig it, we’ll do more of these. Stay tuned. – Ed.

    Our engineers at LinkedIn are creating a valuable user experience for over 100 million professionals everyday. With LinkedIn growing at an unprecedented rate, we are always looking for talented individuals to join our team. To give you an insider’s view into what makes our engineers tick, we’ve asked Adil Aijaz, multi-talented engineer, expert data wrangler, and trail runner, a few questions about working at LinkedIn.

  • Every month on InDay we’re encouraged to take a break from our normal work routines to focus on doing something completely different – something that will help change our own perspectives and perhaps the lives of others. I can honestly say that June’s “play-themed” InDay succeeded for me on both fronts. Let me explain.

    Recently, my 7-year-old daughter, Siena, asked me if we could have a “kids day” at my work. I asked around, and before I knew it, my day job in Sales had temporarily morphed into chief event planner for LinkedIn’s first “Bring Your Kids to Work Day” at our Mountain View campus.