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Intro for iPhone – No Longer Supported

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Re: Intro for iPhone – No Longer Supported

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Post by codegeek »

Thank you LinkedIn. Good riddance. While you are at it, how about fixing/retiring the following things as well:

- Endorsements. They serve no purpose other than "look I am so cool" and for recruiter to find you by keywords that does not make much sense. Plus I have no interest in getting endorsed by my uncle for something he has no clue about.

- Groups: These end up being nothing but recruiter spam.

- Stop the spam of "Please join linkedin premium trial for 30 days". I get this email every other week. If I am interested, I would have joined by now. Don't you get it.

- And the classic one. It is ok for you to spam my gmail contacts but I cannot even send a group email to all my connections at once (you have a stupid cap)? One use case is that during the Christmas/new Year time, I like to send a note to all my contacts saying hi. Yes not very pesonalized but for me the whole point of linkedin is to stay in touch with my professional connections. Guess what ? You limit the number of connections I can send a note to in one message. really ?

Re: Intro for iPhone – No Longer Supported

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Post by AH4oFVbPT4f8 »

mrfusion wrote: post #4

What is intro? I tried looking around their site but I didn't see anything.

https://intro.linkedin.com/

Send your mail to them to let them rewrite the html to insert LinkedIn information within the message.

Intro shows you LinkedIn profiles in your iPhone Mail app.

http://blog.linkedin.com/2013/10/23/announcing-linkedin-intr...

Re: Intro for iPhone – No Longer Supported

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Post by kisielk »

codegeek wrote: post #3

Thank you LinkedIn. Good riddance. While you are at it, how about fixing/retiring the following things as well: - Endorsements. They serve no purpose other than "look I am so cool" and for recruiter to find you by keywords that does not make much sense. Plus I have no interest in getting endorsed by my uncle for something he has no clue about. - Groups: These end up being nothing but recruiter spam. - Stop the spam o…

Endorsements serve a purpose for LinkedIn. They keep users coming back to the site when they receive the "X has endorsed you for Y" emails.

You can tell endorsements are mostly for LinkedIn's benefit when you notice they don't even expose them in their API.

Re: Intro for iPhone – No Longer Supported

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Post by rbanffy »

codegeek wrote: post #3

Thank you LinkedIn. Good riddance. While you are at it, how about fixing/retiring the following things as well: - Endorsements. They serve no purpose other than "look I am so cool" and for recruiter to find you by keywords that does not make much sense. Plus I have no interest in getting endorsed by my uncle for something he has no clue about. - Groups: These end up being nothing but recruiter spam. - Stop the spam o…

Groups is a good idea that's being poorly used. Some groups are set up to promote a single person or group, yet have generic names. Others are used by people not familiar with Stackexchange for asking technical questions.

They make sense for a professional networking site, but they have to be guided towards relevance.

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