Short clip: Mining the LinkedIn network

December 18, 2007, 2:24pm PST | Length: 00:01:00
LinkedIn VP of Technical Operations, Lloyd Taylor discusses new ways business professionals will communicate and consume information in the future.

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Short clip: Mining the LinkedIn network

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>> Dan: Now, you've only been at Linked In for a few months and going forward what do you see as kind of the big challenge that you have to deal with there?

>> The number one challenge is getting value out of the masher, you know, out of The Cloud for the end user. So if we can make it easy for someone like yourself let's say you want to interview somebody on a given topic, what we'd love to have is that you as Dan can go in, log in and say, hey, I want somebody who is within 20 miles of my studio who is an expert on XYZ and immediately come back to you with high value responses. We can also allow people in your network to say I'd like to be contacted for this sort of thing. So if we can cut through a lot of the challenge of how do I find somebody who's willing to talk to me or how do I find somebody who has a certain skill, that's essentially mining the value of the network. And that's the big exciting thing that I believe is happening in the coming year is there's a lot of fascinating stuff going on inside yet, right now, certainly can't talk about it yet. But in the next few months there's going to be some fundamentally exciting things that come out about how do we help people like yourself like myself anybody who needs to find sources of good information. I mean, what do executives do, right, they communicate and they consume information. If I can help an executive consume the information that is most useful to them my value goes up. If I can help them communicate with people who can be most helpful to them in achieving their goals the value goes up.

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