"LinkedIn is better on the app" is the subject of the email.

I keep getting these emails from linked-in and I can’t help but wonder: why are you neglecting your website that much? Why is the app that much better? Is it really better? They don’t make it apparent how. Do they not care about people using the web version anymore? Does Microsoft really feel the primary audience is mobile and not people that sit in front of their computers all day? Why should we believe that linked-in is going to continue investing in the app when we’ve seen folks like StackOverflow create apps and then abandon them? ...

April 22, 2022 · 1 min · 99 words · Christopher Hicks

Linked-in endorsements are a handy easy button.

Endorsements are a good feature. I’m always behind on writing recommendations and this gives me an easy out for people that I haven’t written a recommendation for yet. If you don’t like this showing up on your profile you can hide that section. Hopefully linked-in will hear our concerns and improve this feature further. A lot of you seem to want to selectively delete individual endorsements. I hope they don’t waste their time on that. All I want is a button that says “never ask me to endorse person X again”. ...

March 27, 2013 · 1 min · 91 words · Christopher Hicks

Why does spam get archived in hours?

Why does spam get archived in hours? Repeatedly across numerous groups I try to flag spam in Linked-In groups and I find that the message is already archived. I only found out about these posts because of the daily Linked-In emails, so these posts are being archived in less than a day, often in single digit hours. How could this be? The link associated with this post was meant to be an example, but the message board post is http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&discussionID=134866365&gid=1268377&trk=eml-anet_dig-b_nd-pst_ttle-cn&ut=0WocEMpkIQr5k1 ...

July 17, 2012 · 1 min · 186 words · Christopher Hicks