Linkedinformed Podcast. The Linkedin Show

Welcome to episode 180, it’s been a busy week for me, I nearly didn’t get time to put this episode together but I’m glad I managed to because I want to talk about the revolution that is happening before out very eyes. Stay tuned for more about that but first…… Clipper Race Update They won!! Interesting Stuff I Saw This Week LinkedIn Engineering Blog - Serving Top Comments in Professional Social Networks Interesting article, although a bit technical! Quote ‘we’ve built a scalable comment ranking system that uses machine learning (ML) to provide a personalized conversational experience to each member visiting the LinkedIn content ecosystem.’ Previously LinkedIn had a very basic way of ordering the comments in a thread; ‘The default mode for ranking comments on the feed was rank by recency: if you were the last person to post a comment on a popular thread, your comment would show up first. We had no understanding of the comment’s content, no notion of personalization, and no knowledge of the engagement that th