Archive for August, 2007

Yelp search API
Friday, August 3rd, 2007

Yelp, my favorite local review site, launched a data API today. I was half hoping that it would use the draft OpenSearch Geo extensions that Andrew has been working on, but after taking a look, the API is richer in scope than what the geo extension is designed for. Though as you can see below, [...]

Not cool, “Work at LinkedIn”
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

I’m not sure why this irks me so much, but it does. I received this email from a recruiter who works for LinkedIn: Dear DeWitt, From your LinkedIn Profile, we thought you may be a good fit for the LinkedIn Engineering team. With 12 million members and 180k new members per week, LinkedIn is the [...]