Co-authors: Akhilesh Gupta and Meng Lay Have you ever wondered how those green online indicators (or “presence indicators”) that are so pervasive in every instant messaging application and social network actually work? How does one display them in real time for roughly 500 million members on a social network like LinkedIn? In this post, we’ll provide a...
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LinkedIn started in 2003 with the goal of connecting to your network for better job opportunities. It had only 2,700 members the first week. Fast forward many years, and LinkedIn’s product portfolio, member base, and server load has grown tremendously. Today, LinkedIn operates globally with more than 350 million members. We serve tens of thousands of web pages...
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We believe the college decision process is not as data-driven as it can be, and we want to change that. Millions of professionals around the world have shared the university they attended and current career on their LinkedIn profile. This data puts us in a unique position to offer help students in their college decision-making process. Our first step towards...
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Editor’s Note: Since we issued this post, Bishop Fox has extensively tested LinkedIn Intro and clarified a few of their earlier...
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Last week, LinkedIn launched a new product that will drastically change the way alumni and students will interact with the site:...
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This blog post is the story of how 6 University of Waterloo "Winterns" managed to build the EatIn Suite - which consists of 3 web...