I like Twitter. Yes, I know that a lot of its content is noise. But I’ve found Twitter to be a useful professional tool for both publishing and consuming information. Publishing to Twitter is the easy part: I publish links to my blog posts and occasionally engage in public conversations. Consuming information from Twitter is more […]
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LinkedIn Search: A Look Beneath the Hood
Last week, I had the good fortune to attend a presentation by John Wang, search architect at LinkedIn. You may have read my earlier posts about LinkedIn introducing faceted search and celebrating the interface from a user perspective. John’s presentation at the SDForum took a developer’s perspective, discussing the challenges of combining faceted search and […]
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LinkedIn Faceted Search Now Out Of Beta
LinkedIn started rolling out a beta version of faceted people search back in July. Now it’s officially out of beta, as announced on their blog. I’ve re-posted the video above in case you missed it in July. Interestingly, LinkedIn developed its own tool to support the combination of faceted search with social network search: Bobo-Browse […]
I noticed recently that, when I sent out an invitation to connect to someone on LinkedIn, there wasn’t the usual slot for including a free-text note with the invitation. I thought it might be a glitch–and I even considered the possibility that this was only happening to my account because I’m a bit of a […]
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LinkedIn Rolling Out Faceted Search!
I’m glad I have a Twitter alert for “faceted search”, since it alerted me (via @getzsch) to a post in TechCrunch announcing that LinkedIn now has a People Search beta that offers faceted search. I can disclose now that I known about this project for a while–they’d reached out to me after I offered a […]
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Why LinkedIn Frustrates Me
Let me start by saying that I really like LinkedIn. I use it as everything from a self-updating address book to a gateway to professional communities like the enterprise search professionals group. I am delighted by the information LinkedIn has assembled about companies just by aggregating user profiles. In short, I take LinkedIn quite seriously […]
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LinkedIn’s New Search Platform: A Review
I’m an avid LinkedIn user and fancy myself an expert on search, so I was excited today to see that LinkedIn has officially launched its new search platform. I recommend you watch the four-minute video below to get an overview of the new features. First, the good news. The interface is slick and streamlined as […]
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LinkedIn Pushing Ads into Inbox
I’d noticed a number of reports about LinkedIn monetizing its audience through advertising, but this morning is the first time I’ve seen an ad in my inbox: I absolutely understand their need to generate revenue. But I’m curious how users will feel about this approach–particularly if the ads are not even targeted. I am a […]
Today LinkedIn officially anounced the launch of its new search platform. It’s slick, and it’s certainly an incremental improvement on their previous search functionality. But I still think they would benefit tremendously from faceted search, or from any approaches that enable exploration of large result sets, such as this one:
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