Wouldn’t it be great to see at a glance the latest happenings in a person’s life right as you were about to send them an mail? That’s the promise of the historic integration within Outlook and Plaxo Pulse.

Why “historic”? considering we are in the very early days of what I shout the “Social Web,” an era…

Several months ago, we announced we are working on APIs and a platform strategy for software developers to integrate with LinkedIn and display their application within LinkedIn. With the OpenSocial announcements, you can now see a lot more about how you can write applications that run inside LinkedIn. So, whether you are a developer, what oppo…

The past few weeks have seen the release of a slew of features that have helped augment your experience of LinkedIn; features ranging from refined network updates to the ability to add a photo to your profile. Today, we’re glad to announce the next step in that evolution - a completely redesigned homepage as well as further details on LinkedIn’s…

Recently Fox Sporting Network, filmed two of the LinkedIn teams (Design and IT) involved in a four-square face-off, in a program that chronicles the rise of four square as a game played increasingly at tech companies in the Silicon Valley.   

Also, the players in the video were Steve Ganz, Chris Saccheri, and Scott Schlegel from our…

At that week’s Internet Identity Workshop, all the pieces finally came together. We now have the tools we need as a community to really manufacture friends-list portability work–a way to give users back the control and ability they deserve to take their local piece of the social graph with them wherever they go. And most importantly, a way to do t…

Posted by Stephanie Liu, Developer ProgramsYou’ve probably seen the Campfire One video (or caught the highlights) with some of the demos, but you may have missed our in-studio interviews. I recently got to sit down with a bunch of developers who have been working with OpenSocial — check out the playlist on YouTube or in the embedded player down …

About a month ago, we released a new feature called Beacon to try to help public share info with their friends about things they do on the web. We’ve made a lot of mistakes building that feature, but we’ve made even more with how we’ve handled them. We simply did a poor job with that release, and I apologize for it. While I am disappointed with ou…