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By: David Petherick

David Petherick — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:33:46 +0000

Here’s the secret to getting to see the beta LinkedIn:

Go to http://www.link....com/home?beta=

It’s publicly visible, you just need to work out where to look.

By: john cutler

john cutler — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:48:24 +0000

The widget looks like its based on Googles AJAX Search API. Something that has nothing to do with OpenSocial. I put something like this on my blogspot blog last week.

By: DeWitt Clinton

DeWitt Clinton — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:52:05 +0000

Hi all,

Very cool, I’m glad that this was covered by TechCrunch. While this feature isn’t live on my LinkedIn account yet either, I believe that the news box on LinkedIn was built using the publicly available Google ajax-based search apis. Someone here could quickly add something similar to their site by using one of the pre-made news bar solutions available at:

http://www.goog...utions/newsbar/

There are a number of other copy-and-paste wizards for other types here:

http://code.goo...ch/wizards.html

Or dig in and customize it further, as LinkedIn has done, by diving into the full docs here:

http://code.goo...pis/ajaxsearch/

BTW, I’d love to see something like this up on TechCrunch. It’s a very easy, but very powerful, way of getting a bit of Google on your own site. Ping me if you want to bounce some ideas around.

-DeWitt

By: John Lo

John Lo — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:06:31 +0000

IMHO – achieving true serendipity by relying on the user alone to make relevant recommendations is limiting. We here at Outbrain are working on providing personal recommendations to people based on their rating habits of blog posts. We look at patterns in explicit rating behavior to make associations between raters and thus power individualized recommendations. That said I like what LinkedIn is doing. Could be cool for them to allow people to upload their OPML files.

By: OpenSocial Blogger

OpenSocial Blogger — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:24:58 +0000

This feature, just like the one MySpace is working on, is a result of the OpenSocial spec; it’s being implemented so that they can build out the activities api portion of OpenSocial.

By: John Treadway

John Treadway — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:05:43 +0000

a lot of people keep suggesting we should look at Facebook and LinkedIn as competitors. to me and all of my colleagues I’ve asked, this just ain’t the case. I have no intention EVER of using Facebook as a business networking tool. Friends and family – sure! Nor would I message my friends and family via LinkedIn. That’s for my business contacts only. Even if I have some of the same contacts in both places, for the most part I WANT these to be separate worlds.

News feeds on LinkedIn is meaningless to me. That’s what Google Home Page is for…

By: EH

EH — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:41:02 +0000

“Yes Z’berg is kid but that kid has a lot of money and don’t have to work for somebody.”

Yeah, and his business decisions reflect it. He’s cavalier, the problems he causes aren’t his, and he could get fired and live the rest of his life as a rich McDonald’s employee. None of this makes him admirable.

By: Ontario Emperor

Ontario Emperor — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:18:23 +0000

I have a free account and can see the news feed. My current employer is a Fortune 500 company, and my previous employers were all small companies that either went under or were acquired by other firms. Therefore, my news feed is titled with the name of my current large employer.

The fact that I work for a smaller division of this Fortune 500 company, and 99% of the news is about one of the larger divisions, isn’t something that is LinkedIn’s fault…

By: Lee Allan Sanders

Lee Allan Sanders — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:11:00 +0000

Jah mon, it has been a while since you logged in *:-) On the first couple days I saw the widget it irritated me, like “Hey, WTF is this?, I didn’t order that!”. However, when I actually clicked through on the links and noticed that the widget may have more sense than I do for what I should be looking at, I began to like it *:-) I don’t love it yet, but I am going to participate in helping LinkedIn make it better, so there!

Lee Allan

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:56:56 +0000

Why are they using Google for this? Isn’t this (pulling contextually relevant news on the fly) what Sphere does better than anyone else?

By: kayvaan

kayvaan — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:50:36 +0000

I don’t see the widget. I have a paid account. Maybe it’s limited beta.

By: Nat Turner

Nat Turner — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:27:43 +0000

Very cool, always wondered when this would finally launch

By: Yuri Ammosov

Yuri Ammosov — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:23:59 +0000

Do not see any news gadget. Are you logging in as a paid account?

By: Live Crunch

Live Crunch — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:23:28 +0000

Guy’s LinkedIn and Facebook are totaly oposite businesses , one is social networking that brings college,high school kids together and LinkedIn is business that brings employees and employers together. The idea is same “social networking” but the purpose is different.

So I really don’t know how can you compare LinkedIn with Facebook?

Yes Z’berg is kid but that kid has a lot of money and don’t have to work for somebody.

I am not saying FB is cool etc. it’s nice but has it’s own issues like any other social networking site. How many times MySpace had issues ?

N’ways good comments “me so laik it”

By: Tonto

Tonto — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:13:51 +0000

Eric,

Why is it that TechCrunch spins a Fortune blog post about how “No one who writes about Facebook likes it anymore” as “second thoughts?”

Wake up TechCrunch!! You need to stop treating Facebook with kid gloves on. Especially when you are often harsh with your words to so many other sites out there.

Say it with me now… “Facebook is being run poorly.”

I know it’s hard for TechCrunch to actually say that. So, maybe you could put it into a headline with a question mark. As in:

“Is Facebook being run poorly?”

Yes!!!!

By: Darian

Darian — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:59:02 +0000

Weirdly I don’t seem to have this News beta as part of my experience on LinkedIn. Either I just don’t see it or the companies I’ve worked for don’t have any news associated with them…

By: Chris R.

Chris R. — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:52:27 +0000

I think this is good.

By: DAN

DAN — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:32:01 +0000

Z’berg is a young kid. Don’t be jeolous people.

By: jason

jason — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:15:45 +0000

I don’t see Reid Hoffman coming out and apologizing for not being clear with his users every 6 months. Zuckerberg needs to go.