LinkedIn Now Offering Network RSS Feeds

Already a feature many use on Friend Feed. Kinda boring to me though…

Linkedin RSS feeds is a good idea, but it does very little to help with personal organization. This is more important for those that have very huge networks. If you get a feed for each action of any of your 10,000 first, second and third tier connections, you will be in for some system overload. Having said that, it is a cool feature for those that have small networks and are not too hot on RSS feeds (non-bloggers,non-journalists).

Great addition, more useable with RSS.

Snooze alert. Not really news :/

Seriously, how much does one person keep track of what their friends are doing? Are we that curious? I mean, I can easily see all my connection updates when I login. I don’t think it is that exciting to get RSS Feed on John getting recommendations from Jim or Jim just connected with Sally (who i have no idea). These things are best suited to be on the website when someone logs in. In fact, I usually ignore it anyway.

Do you guys notice something, LinkedIn seemed to be on a Press Release or Feature Release War with Facebook lately. A week ago, Facebook announced their Privacy Settings targeting business users or professionals and LinkedIn that same week announced their Company Profile. Early this week, Facebook announced “Friends suggestion or recommendation” feature and now, LinkedIn is announcing RSS Feed.

Is someone feeling insecure?

Likedin is a great social application and providing RSS for network is good idea.

Personaly, I think this is useless - I love Linkedin, we’ve had great success posting our open positions to our network and getting tremendous feedback and great applicants.

So, when I think from THAT side, I don’t see the use of the RSS. Even though I actively use LinkedIn, I don’t see myself using this feature.

But, hey, it doesn’t hurt for it to be there I guess - others can use it…

Mystery CEO

@ #5, take it easy, the rss feed isn’t geared for the average linkedin user (more so for users of google reader as duncan mentions).

Also, what’s wrong with issuing a press release for a new product or feature? personally, i think facebook’s new privacy settings and linkedin’s company profiles are both newsworthy.

Who exactly is insecure?

Facebook copied linkedin with their “People You May Know” (Friend suggestions) feature. Linkedin launched “People You May Know” several months ago. It’s sad that facebook didn’t even bother coming up with a new name.

Many people seem to forget that Linkedin launched “network updates” months before facebook’s once controversial, now heralded “news feed”. Yeah, Linkedin’s version initially only showed profile and new connections updates, but all facebook did was take it a step further, and display all activity.

I’m a fan and user of both sites, both serve different purposes. Don’t see why you need to put them at odds with each other.

It gets kinda useful if you use it in combination with FriendFeed’s Imaginary Friend Feature.

It’s about time?

Great work of RSS, things becomes easier.

If I was everyone, I would try signing up for Virtudex.com It is like LinkedIn on steroids and they have the RSS feed news reader on the users homepage to display relevant business news.

@Charles (#12), You should probably read the article to learn what this feature actually is about before commenting about another service that has some unrelated feature (ok, both utilize RSS).

I can count the number of friends that use RSS on a regular basis on one hand, and those that know what it really is on two hands (case in point, comment #12).

Has anyone “hooked up” or made a real job contact through Linkedin? Curious. Everyone’s sending me their Linkedin invite but I see no point to return or visit daily?

It will be very interesting. When it will be?

@#14 Everett. People make serious contacts with the Linkedin. It is not for when you are looking for a job, it is way way before. I blog about uses of Linkedin sometimes and how useful it can be for professionals. One important aspect is that if someone is going to find some information about you on the web, let it be what you put there. With Linkedin’s high page-rank, it is a good choice.

Great social app, thumbs up!

This is a useless feature. Linkedin is a great recruiting application. They should embrace themselves as such. It is was it is.

@dan, why do u think linkedin is great for recruiting? i think it’s for business networking. recruiting is a part of their business. i don’t like the job request inmail from strangers, do u? a lot of spam

I share the view that LinkedIn is barely more than Web 2.0 recruitment, maybe handy for doing person-related research, but my problem with it is the lack of info and data it holds on why I would want to buy from a company. The profiles are all personal, so I can find out all I need to know about where someone has previously worked, but not much about why I would want to deal with them. To that end, it’s usefulness for business is limited — unless I am hiring of course.

I think we’ll be seeing more competition for LinkedIn as real business reference/search sites get established.

Ian Hendry
http://www.wecando.biz

I like the linkedin app in facebook..

very nice, and nitwit-proof - clicked enable, dropped into NNW and it’s rolling…