Do you know what a LinkedIn Hack Day is?

As you can imagine there is a lot of exciting innovation taking place in LinkedIn on a daily basis! There is constant improvements and new functionality being released from our  "pod" teams working on a rich variety of roadmap initiatives. A good way for you to get a glimpse into the culture and passion of the people at the company is to check out our Hack Days! This will give you an idea of some of the amazing work some of our engineers and product folk produce typically in one day!



If any of you have any cool ideas how LinkedIn can improve their products or create a "hack" :) for our platform, drop me a mail declan.fitzgerald@gmail.com and don't forget to check out LinkedIn Labs which I'll be talking more about at our next Tuesday Club in a few weeks!

LinkedIn Skills

This is only the start... more to come on skills and skills graphs. We now firmly live in a talent economy where professional networking is at the center of its ebbs and flows.

Check out your InMap

Some more innovation from the people at LinkedIn... create a visualisation of your own social graph. It's called an InMap and you can check it out here.

Also some new ads from Yahoo and some bus stops in San Fran.



Any idea what is the Twitter clone in China. Sina Weibo is growing fast in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. It currently has over 50 million users and is expecting to hit 100 million by the end of 2011. Gaofei Wang, Vice President of Sina Weibo shared with Mobile World Live in an Interview on its growth phase and briefly on its monetization plan.

And if that wasn't enough for one blog post check out thesocialcv.com

LinkedIn launches very cool new resume builder

Part of the fun of working in LinkedIn is getting to play around and tinker with lots of cool things... one of the latest innovations to come out of the company is Resume Builder. Effectively what it does is create your profile into a traditional resume with a couple of quick clicks...

Check it out here.