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Ever since I began showing the LinkedIn in LEGO sculpture, I’ve been shocked with how many questions people have about it. There is definitely something about seeing a LEGO sculpture of this size in person that makes people want to know more. So while this blog post is the official description of how and why [...]
Filed under: Design, LinkedIn, Silicon Valley | Tagged: answers, Corporate Art, LEGO, legos, questions, Sculpture | 1 Comment »
I’m pleased to announce that a fairly large side project that I’ve been working on for the past two months is now complete. The “LinkedIn in LEGO” sculpture is now ready for display in the LinkedIn corporate lobby. Made up of over 10,000 LEGO bricks, the sculpture stands over four feet tall, and is fairly [...]
Filed under: Design, LinkedIn, Silicon Valley | Tagged: Corporate Art, LEGO, legos, Lobby, Sculpture | 4 Comments »
I gave a lighthearted talk yesterday at the LinkedIn User Experience team’s all hands meeting. I called it “Getting the Most Out of Your Product Manager”, and it was intended to talk from the perspective of someone who has lived in both of the HCI (Human Computer Interaction) & PM (Product Management) worlds. The goal [...]
Filed under: Design, LinkedIn, Product Management | Tagged: Design, User Experience | 3 Comments »
From the first conversations that I had with Reid Hoffman about LinkedIn, what was striking was the amazing clarity about how value is created by social web properties. Those conversations turned into one of my favorite talks, where I walk through the basic understanding of LinkedIn as a Platform business for students and new hires. [...]
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Just a quick blog post tonight, after a full day of meetings explaining the new Apply with LinkedIn plug-in that we launched today. Jon Seitel put up a great blog post on LinkedIn about the feature. I’m not going to try to duplicate here, but for those of you curious about what we launched today, [...]
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A quick parody of a classic to celebrate the LinkedIn Hackday tomorrow (July 15th). Apologies in advance for the inside jokes / names. It may not make complete sense to those of you who are not LinkedIn employees. Twas the night before Hackday, when all through LinkedIn Not a person was stirring, not even Stegman. [...]
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This is the third post in my series on “How to Make a Great Tech T-Shirt“. Define Success to Achieve Success On the consumer web, product managers succeed and fail based on their ability to define, measure and understand their product metrics. When new Product Managers start at LinkedIn, one of the first tasks that [...]
Filed under: LinkedIn, Product Management, Silicon Valley | Tagged: T-Shirts | 4 Comments »
LinkedIn decided to syndicate my previous post on LinkedIn Hackdays. LinkedIn Blog: 10 Ways to Make Hackdays Work As part of the post, they published this wonderful video montage about LinkedIn Hackdays. Thought it was worth sharing here too. I love it because it really captures the warmth and the passion that make LinkedIn [...]
Filed under: Blogging, LinkedIn | Tagged: Hackday | 1 Comment »
Two weeks ago, we celebrated yet another great Hackday judging event at LinkedIn. For the April 15th Hackday, over 50 employees submitted a combined total of 29 projects for the contest. We saw incredible product concepts, developer tool innovations, internal corporate applications, and even a few ideas so good they’ll likely ship as products in [...]
Filed under: Developer, LinkedIn, Silicon Valley, Software | Tagged: H@x0rz, Hackday, Wizard of In | 12 Comments »
Last Friday, LinkedIn had it’s monthly “InDay”, an event where the company encourages employees to pursue research, ideas & interests outside of their day-to-day responsibilities. (This is the same day that I run the regular LinkedIn Hackdays for the company.) This month, the theme was “personal finance” as a brief nod to the ominous due [...]
Filed under: Developer, Economics, LinkedIn, Personal Finance | 5 Comments »
Today was a banner day for the LinkedIn Mobile team, with the big launch of LinkedIn for Android v1.0. The application was built from the ground up to be the best mobile experience for LinkedIn on Android, and includes our fastest people search implementation on any mobile device. (It’s already climbing the Top 25 free [...]
Filed under: LinkedIn, Mobile | 5 Comments »
For some reason, I *love* Easter Eggs. No, I don’t mean the candy colored eggs that people make and roll to celebrate the holiday. Easter eggs are the playful name for hidden features, games, and funny content that software engineers embed in their products for fun. This was extremely popular in the early days of [...]
Filed under: LinkedIn, Microsoft, Silicon Valley, Software | 1 Comment »
Yesterday, LinkedIn celebrated reaching 100 million members… an amazing milestone. As part of the celebration, the whole team in Mountain View gathered for a photo outside of the main building: Now the fun part… can you play “Where’s Waldo?” and find me in the picture? It was hard not to feel good about the scope [...]
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One of the best features of the new building that LinkedIn opened up at 2051 Stierlin Court in Mountain View is the new Coca-Cola Freestyle. The Freestyle is a modern soda fountain wrapped in a vending machine. You can order any one of over 100 different varieties of soft drink, ranging from flavored Dasani water [...]
Filed under: Diet Coke, LinkedIn | Tagged: Coca-cola, Coke, Coke Freestyle, Crowdsourcing, Soft Drinks | 1 Comment »
I got this sent to me in email today. It seems to have become a running joke among a few of my fellow LinkedIn employees. Two thoughts immediately come to mind: Do I need to change my official superhero for 500 Startups? (currently: Optimus Prime) Am I missing something funny about this comparison? This seems [...]
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