I’m Reading…Today, at 6pm, I was invited to Pinewood in Los Altos Hills to give the commencement speech at their 8th Grade graduation. I graduated from Pinewood junior high school in 1987, so it was somewhat of an honor for me to be asked to come back 23 years later to speak to the graduating students. [...]
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Today I had the privilege of taking the wraps of a feature enhancement that my team has been working on for the past few weeks: the new version of Tweets. LinkedIn Blog: Find and Follow Your LinkedIn Connections on Twitter You can install Tweets by going to the install page on LinkedIn. There’s no need [...]
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I know this is my personal blog, but sometimes launches are big enough that I feel compelled to announce them here as well. LinkedIn Blog: LinkedIn for Blackberry: Anytime, Anywhere You can download it at http://www.linkedin.com/blackberry Twitter is on fire with the news right – I’m watching the stream of comments in realtime. Great pieces [...]
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Recently, I’ve been evaluating different solutions for upgrading my home storage solution for backup and file storage. A couple of years ago, I decided to purchase an Infrant ReadyNAS NV+, which offers appliance-level simplicity to deploy a virtualized drive over a flexible RAID system. It’s a 4-drive system that supports hot-swapping of drives and optimized [...]
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This has been something that I’ve been thinking about heavily for the past few years. There is a trend in Silicon Valley that has been under-appreciated in the press, but nonetheless has rapidly swept through technology companies in the Bay Area. It may not be buzzword-enabled (yet), but it nonetheless may be a truly transformative [...]
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A fun article appeared today on Silicon Alley Insider: Silicon Alley Insider: What’s It Like Working for LinkedIn by Nicholas Carlson It’s a short piece that covers the basics of working for a hyper-growth, late stage web 2.0 startup. The piece begins with the following: During a recent trip out to the Bay Area, we [...]
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Just a quick note to say that the new version of LinkedIn for iPhone is now live in the iTunes App Store. Download LinkedIn for iPhone I wrote a fairly lengthy piece on the official LinkedIn blog, so no need to replicate the full walk-through here. In any case, check out this new home screen: [...]
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I apologize for the reference to Spinal Tap, but this is my personal blog after all. I normally don’t post most LinkedIn announcements here, but this one is too big to ignore. On Monday, LinkedIn made faceted search available to all members. This effort brought to fruition efforts that date back to 2007 to completely [...]
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Last Friday, I had a chance to write a good, solid piece about LinkedIn Recommendations for the official LinkedIn blog. In case you missed it, the article is here: LinkedIn Blog: LinkedIn Recommendations & The Reputation Economy I spent a good bit of time on this post, and even took a half hour to discuss [...]
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Kudos to the team. LinkedIn for IBM Lotus Notes is now in beta. LinkedIn Blog: LinkedIn Widget for IBM Lotus Notes Now Available Quote from Ed Brill, Director of Product for Lotus Notes at IBM: This week, IBM and LinkedIn are announcing the availability of the LinkedIn plug-in for Lotus Notes. This easy to use [...]
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In keeping with my theme this week of blogging observations, this one ties together a basic tenet that I learned from science fiction in my pre-teen years, and applies it to product management. The concept is borrowed from “The End of Eternity“, one of the classic science fiction novels from Isaac Asimov. The book imagines [...]
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In the spirit of capturing some of the observations that I find myself repeating, I’m adding this one to the mix tonight. Unlike the previous two, this is really a piece of concrete advice for product managers of consumer software or consumer internet products. It’s also a more recent observation that I’ve formulated in the [...]
Filed under: LinkedIn, Product Management, Silicon Valley | Tagged: product, product roadmaps, product process, feature design, consumer internet, consumer product | 3 Comments »
That’s right, everyone. A new acronym is born. Get ready for consultants, product managers, marketing executives, and knowledgeable technorati everywhere to be talking about the most important traffic driver since… SEO (Search Engine Optimization). That’s right, 2009 is the year of TEO. Twitter Event Optimization. The logic is simple enough. Twitter is growing by incredible [...]
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It’s a tough job market this year, particularly for newly graduating college students and graduate students. At LinkedIn, we work every day to help professionals leverage their two most important assets, their reputation and their relationships, to make them more productive. Getting that first full time position can be hard, so we’ve put together a [...]
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Last year, I had the opportunity to speak at the PDMA International 2008 conference in Orlando, FL. I gave a talk entitled: “Building a World Class Web 2.0 Product Organization” While I posted this presentation to Slideshare and on my LinkedIn profile, it turns out I never actually posted it here on this blog. Christina [...]
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