I’m Reading…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 [...]
Filed under: LinkedIn, Product Management, Silicon Valley, Twitter | Tagged: Twitter Lists, Tweets | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Filed under: LinkedIn, Mobile, Product Management | Tagged: Blackberry, Research In Motion, RIM | 3 Comments »
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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It has been quite a long time since I posted here about eBay. I still use the site regularly (I typically still list at least a few things every month), and while I may tweet about things from time to time, I rarely feel the need for a full blog post. On January 21st, Ikai [...]
Filed under: E-Commerce, Product Management, eBay | 22 Comments »
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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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 [...]
Filed under: LinkedIn, Politics, Product Management, Science Fiction | 1 Comment »
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 »
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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I can’t help myself really. What’s the point of putting advanced search operators in the new LinkedIn Search platform if no one knows about them? So I have a new blog post up on the LinkedIn corporate blog: LinkedIn Blog: Advanced Search Operators for the LinkedIn Pro If you are curious, but not curious enough [...]
Filed under: LinkedIn, Product Management | 5 Comments »
Can’t get much better press than that, right? The title is copied verbatim from a blog post on the announcement. From Finance Geek: A Google (GOOG) rock star defects: Dipchand “Deep” Nishar, who helped kickstart Google’s mobile business, is moving to LinkedIn. WSJ: Mr. Nishar, 40, in January will become vice president of product strategy [...]
Filed under: Google, LinkedIn, Product Management | 1 Comment »
One of the great joys in Product Management is the launch of great new features and platforms that touch millions of users. Recently, I’ve had the pleasure of watching my team launch one of the biggest and most challenging efforts at LinkedIn to date with the launch of the new LinkedIn Search. If you haven’t [...]
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A couple weeks ago, there was a great reunion party for many eBay Product Managers & User Experience Designers from the past decade. I didn’t get an exact count, but at least 70 people were there, including many of the early Product Managers from before I joined the company in 2003. I was happily reminded [...]
Filed under: Friends, Product Management, eBay | Tagged: Bix, yahoo | 2 Comments »
I am beyond happy to announce that the LinkedIn Application Platform is now LIVE on the site. You can go to LinkedIn right now and experiment with almost a dozen new ways to build and share content with your colleagues and contacts. As you can see from my profile, I’ve already added posts from this [...]
Filed under: LinkedIn, Product Management | 2 Comments »
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