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Hi, everyone.  My name is Sudeep Yegnashankaran, and I’m a software engineer on the LinkedIn Mobile team.  I recently joined LinkedIn as part of the CardMunch acquisition, and with this being my first “real” job out of college, I had no idea what kind of work environment I would find. I am thrilled to find myself surrounded by people who are not only passionate about innovation but are obsessed with it and celebrate it frequently.

I created this project as part of LinkedIn’s Hackday, a monthly competition that pits the entire company in a battle to produce some of the coolest, geekiest, and most compelling hacks. The winners are rewarded with fame, fortune, and (most importantly) the hope to launch their hack as a product for all of our users.

Did you get the 2010 Year in Review email from LinkedIn? Now you can see all of your LinkedIn connections that made a career move in 2011, 2010, or 2009.

Check out the Year in Review LinkedIn Labs page here

Other than being one of my favorite days, LinkedIn Hackday (part of our “inDay” program) is one day set aside each month where employees step away from their every day job functions to give back to the community, create new rapid prototypes, solve business problems, express ideas and be creative while learning and “bending” new technologies. Hackday isn’t just limited to technically minded people or engineers. In fact, all employees have the opportunity to join a team and collaborate on amazing new ideas.

People use LinkedIn daily for their professional success.  Finding a job, sharing professional content, gathering professional insights using Signal, connecting with like-minded business colleagues while creating a rich professional network are just a few examples of how people use LinkedIn to be more productive and successful.  In most cases, this entire process starts with a simple “search”.

If you’re a LinkedIn user, you already know the power of your professional network.

What if you could visualize what your network looks like?  Would your connections form clusters or groups?  Wouldn’t it be great if you could see the way all your connections are related to each other? Even be able to identify the elusive hubs between your professional worlds?