Your Network Updates' Personal RSS Feed
Many users have asked us for a RSS feed of Network Updates and as I'd commented over two weeks ago, we now allow you to subscribe to your network updates via RSS! Find the ubiquitous orange RSS logo right next to the Network Updates sign on LinkedIn's homepage, right below the LinkedIn News module.
Once you click through that you'll be taken to this landing page, which provides you the option to subscribe to an RSS feed of Network Updates.
While on the topic of RSS feeds, this is probably a good time to remind you that you can actually subscribe to a feed of LinkedIn Answers in any particular category/sub-category and that way be informed of the latest Questions & Answers whenever they happen.
We'll continue making it easier for you to access LinkedIn's features wherever you go. Did you know that you can access LinkedIn's Network Updates on your mobile device. Check out Jerry's post earlier today on new LinkedIn Mobile features with a demo on the iPhone. Feel free to leave a message with feedback, comments, or suggestions.
Sunil Gupta Mar 29, 2008
This is what i was looking for and i put this question in my Q & A section. I am happy with this update.
Thanks,
Sunil
Kolin Tregaskes Mar 29, 2008
This is great that you've added an RSS feed. But unfortunately is it not working. The feed URL is below and can't see how that would be a specific feed for an individual user:
http://www.linkedin.com/rssAdmin?display=
Cam you please help?
Steven Burda Mar 30, 2008
Cool... will you follow me now?
Steven Burda
www.linkedin.com/in/burda
Scott Allen Mar 30, 2008
This is a great start, Chris. Next question, though... how about an RSS feed of just my profile status updates? That way I can push them to Twitter, FriendFeed, etc.?
Also, how about a way to enter our profile updates via a simple URL, rather than having to come to our profile and do the Ajax-based entry?
Richard Apr 3, 2008
This is great, really is, but I wonder if it creates a significant privacy issue. If I subscribe to a network feed in, say, Bloglines, not concerned about the potential for that feed to go into open search engines (as I believe happens with Bloglines), doesn't it follow that I've just released other people in my network's activity to the world at large as well, such that they lose control over the closed nature of the network?
Salvatore Larosa Apr 6, 2008
This is a great feature and I am lookng forward to find a way to extend it to a group level. I mean: I manage a MBA alumni group on linkedin and we have a MBA community site, too. I would like to find a way to advertise on such site all the "business network development" the members are making every day, in order to stimulate other alumni to understand the value of being on linkedin and make them create thei linkedin personal pages (and - obviously - make them join our linkedin MBA group 8-). So, I think it would be nice for a group administrator to have the possibility to activate a "group-level activity RSS" merging all the "members' activity RSS". Another way to achieve this could be to create a "dummy linkedin profile", i.e. "the MBA group admin profile", then ask all the group members to connect to such "dummy profile", and then... voilà... the dummy profile's RSS feed will become the "integration feed" I need. Do you think there are better ways? What is in your roadmap about group-level integration functionalities for RSS?
Privacy is not a problem for a group-level RSS feed: you can simply add a checkbox in the group subsctiption page "do you wish you network relations be advertised to all the group members?" However, in order to let users change their group-level preferences during their life ,I think it is important that LinkedIn roll out some kind of "group profile page", containing group description, preference settings for group members, maybe a group public mambers directory (members will decide if they want to be listed or not), and so on...
Best regards!
Jens Apr 8, 2008
Nice, this could be great. What would be really useful is if one could actually switch of all the X is now connected to Y messages. They add little value and results in 90% of the traffic which is now quasi-spam.
What IS really useful is the X has a new Title, Y has a new job, Z has a new education, etc
Receiving updates on people's lives is useful, but receiving updates on the state of the profile, meaning, connections, recommendations, questions answered etc is just neither interesting nor useful
I recommend you just kick that out (either hard code it or give people the option).
Pat Bitton Apr 14, 2008
Posting here in the vain hope that someone can tell me how to submit a question via Contact Customer Service. Every time I try to submit a question, I complete the information requested and then the system just seems to go into an endless loop of telling me that my information is already in the database and not proceeding any further. Or perhaps this is just a way to discourage people from attempting to get customer service?
Scott Boutwell Apr 22, 2008
I would also like to see more opportunity to create and customize RSS feeds; for example, would like to have a custom feed of "Q&A" that I define.
Christopher S. Rollyson Jun 23, 2008
Still an excellent question: how soon will we be able to syndicate our LinkedIn profile information via RSS? By doing that, LinkedIn would become "the mother ship" for business contact information, consumable by any other site. Do you have an ETA?
Thanks
Mario Sundar Jul 30, 2008
Thanks to all, for your comments. I've passed it on to @Chris. Stay tuned for updates on the blog.