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  • LinkedIn: Where Engineers Want to Work [Infographic]

    LinkedIn’s CEO, Jeff Weiner, recently gave a speech in which he declared that the U.S. doesn’t have enough skilled workers to fill the 3.5 million U.S. jobs currently open. The other side of that coin is that the highly-skilled workers who can get hired often have many jobs to choose from. Some of these workers are looking toward fortune and the future by helping startups perfect their technology.

    Linked in has provided a handy infographic showing just what startups in the San Francisco Bay Area are attracting the industry’s top engineers. The chart ranks the companies, all with fewer than 500 employees, by the interest each garnered on LinkedIn from January to March of this year.

    From this list it’s easy to see what is currently interesting to engineers: cloud computing. Both Arista and Nicira, the most interesting companies according to LinkedIn, provide cloud networking solutions. Also, the sector of the industry LinkedIn calls “big data” is growing quickly and so is engineer interest in it. Cloudera, Palantir, Hortonworks, and Splunk all focus around creating software that helps businesses make sense of large data sets. Although Pinterest cracks the top 10, interest in the popular social sharing network might be waning since march, as its number of active users begins to plateau.

    LinkedIn's top 10 attractive Bay Area startups

    (infographic courtesy LinkedIn)

  • LinkedIn Labs Opens

    LinkedIn Labs Opens

    LinkedIn fans who would like to get their hands on a couple new features are in luck.  Today, something called LinkedIn Labs launched, and as the name might lead you to expect, it acts to spotlight tools and potential upgrades that haven’t been released to the general public.

    Four projects made the initial cut, and Adam Nash explained on the LinkedIn Blog that LinkedIn users can expect more in the future.  "Whether they are hackday winners, or just compelling technology demonstrations, we plan on adding to LinkedIn Labs regularly, as new innovations that are capable of supporting outside users are developed," he wrote.

    As for what the initial experiments are about, the first is called NewIn 2.0, and with the help of Google Earth, it provides a real-time view of people all over the world joining LinkedIn.

    Next, there’s ChromeIn, which makes it possible to view LinkedIn network updates right in Google’s browser.  Plus there’s Instant Search, an upgrade that aims to make the process of finding someone super fast.

    Finally, someone(s) at LinkedIn cooked up Signal.  Nash described it by suggesting, "Discover the power of faceted search over both the LinkedIn stream and tweets shared by our users, and find insights you won’t find anywhere else."

    Have fun (and be patient) if you decide to play with anything in LinkedIn Labs.