Co-authors: Suruchi Shah and Hari Shankar The rise of instant messaging has changed how we communicate. Compared to the back-and-forth of email, we send and receive messages at much higher volumes and speeds. In the instant conversations we have, we also expect to be able to search for important phrases, moments, or references with ease. This rapid increase in...
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LinkedIn’s mission is to connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful. Building an active community of engaged members is a key strategy for achieving our mission. One of the many ways to drive member conversations and active communities is through profile highlights, which are insights between the viewer of a profile and that...
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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...
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- Java,
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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...
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- Galene,
- Dust.js,
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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...