Recently, chain letters have started to spread across Facebook with all sorts of misinformation. Let’s get some info out there about how we communicate to you about Facebook. Right now, there are only four ways that we try to get data to users.
Home Page Announcements: Home Page announcements are the big boxes that push down your News Feed. Thes…

The team was busy that week! With today’s release, you can now upload photos directly, create a poll, write a review, and more! Of course, you control who sees what, whether it’s your family, your friends, your business network, or a group you’re a member of.

Upload Photos: Many of you liked seeing photos in Pulse but were con…

This past week, saw a lot of press and blog attention showered on our most recent announcements; LinkedIn’s redesigned home page (featuring LinkedIn News) and LinkedIn’s Intelligent Application Platform. Given below are the highlights of that coverage (Top 5 from Press and Blog posts respectively):

Press

1. New York Times | LinkedIn opens si…

In that post, I’d like to focus on the salient features of LinkedIn News since a lot has already been said about it that past week. As you’re probably aware of, your LinkedIn Network is a valuable resource that enables you to draw on the collective wisdom of your colleagues, business partners and others in your professional world. LinkedIn Answe…

Posted by Elizabeth Yin, Developer ProgramsMany citizens have asked us to help promote their OpenSocial events; for example, Jesse Stay, co-founder of the Utah Social Media Developers Garage, recently asked whether we could help him get the word out about his meetup.We’ve now made it easier for developers to promote their events and find others in …

As you’ve learned from previous posts (here and here), today we’re announcing the beginning of Beta evaluating for a new LinkedIn homepage. Here I am in conversation with our community evangelist, Mario Sundar, describing what’s different in the redesigned homepage.

Check out our new redesigned beta page here (Just to invent …

Posted by Dan Peterson, Product ManagerWe’re thrilled to tell you the initial commit to the Shindig repository is in. that is the first of many steps towards providing infrastructure for those wishing to host OpenSocial apps on their websites. In case you didn’t see it last time, Shindig is a new project in the Apache Software Foundation’s incubato…