Attention

Last week we got reviewed by SexyWidget, yesterday a small mention on TechCrunch and today with Steve O'Hear on ZDnet. Together with tens of other posts from people who seem to like the service, this is getting fun... :-)

Thank you all!

PS. If you quick enough you might still catch us on del.icio.us home page. Thanks again.

Platform support

Here's a quick hack that will enable you to have your box on Pageflakes.

1. On Pageflakes, click "ADD FEED" (on the top right)
2. Put "http://www.linkedinabox.com/pageflakes/" + box ID (the one you get by email once you register with the service. For example, my flake URL would be http://www.linkedinabox.com/pageflakes/1140586 )
   

That's it :-).

Update:
Thanks to Steve Purkiss, we now have a Drupal platform support! the instructions on how to embed the box on Open4.org are on his blog and a the Drupal module is here.

We've got few users requesting support for wordpress.com . If anyone from Wordpress is reading this, please drop us a line...

Update2:
Microsoft Spaces - after watching this guy doing it, we went and tried it ourselves. It works. When creating a box, just choose the MySpace/HTML only option and copy the generated code into Spaces HTML Sandbox Gadget.

Widget first

We've been told that we are the first widget to put out a different face when rendered to the site owner vs. site visitor (implemented on the "My network" bar).

Is that true?

Update:
And how about the "love me" buttons on the About bar?

...and some more features

This week we've been busy incorporating the latest crop -

Drop me a line - now you can receive e-mail from your visitors via the LinkedInABox service, without exposing your email address over the web.
(Being a LinkedIn dependent service...) we only allow LinkedIn users to send a post.
This enables us to include a reference to their public LinkedIn profile so you can use it as sort of "credibility" system and have a better understanding of who is the person behind the mail.

My network - when you invoke your own box in your browser, the box will display a private view(your visitors will not see it) of your LinkedIn account service: unread items, connection updates, questions and jobs on your network.

LinkedIn Public Profile - a link to your public LinkedIn profile, just beneath the box.

Added color

Today we've added the ability to choose skins for the box and add a background image (as my friend and Oscar-winner wannabe Yaniv demonstrates to the right).

If you already have the widget installed, you will need to go through the customization process again and copy/paste the new generated code.

Enjoy.

Oh, and one more thing - please check out the "Connected?" tab. Once you log-in with the service, it will automatically resolve connectivity level between you and box owners you will visit. Expect some more stuff to build on that...