Hi everybody,

I created a nice screencast about LinkedIn and rss feeds. Ok a little more info.

As I was looking in the pages of LinkedIn I always want to know who is getting new connections everyday so I can see if I know them as well.

The problem is when you have about 500 connections it will be a huge list every day which surprised me a bit after my creation.

I contacted @Vincentsmit of justconnecting who is a great Linkedin trainer Coach. I explained him my idea how to get all of your updates.

He told me it is quite difficult to do because you have to use the rss feed of linkedin in try to customized it with yahoo pipes and maybe you get the output.

Well it was not that difficult for me so I want to share how to do this on my blog. Thanks Vincent for the initial tip!

If you do not want to read but want to watch you can open the movie here

Otherwise here are my screendumps

This is my home page of linkedin

As you can see there are only a few connection updates when we hit the link see more updates. You get a bigger screen with lots of connections but still not all.

What you want is to have all of these updates in a rss feed in your outlook reader or other reader.

So what you have to do is go back to your home page:

As you can see you have a Rss feed of your network updates. Click on it.

By default this setting is disabled so enable it copy the link this link holds all updates about your profile so whether someone connected to someone or did a status update or joined a group it is all in there.

Now go to yahoo pipes and click after logon create a pipe.

A window opens with a whole toolset

What you want to do is drag a fetch feed out of the sources menu to the canvas. After you did that you need a operator in this case a filter

Change it to permit items create a rule default it will get all items of the feed which can be filtered. So you type contains and the "is now connected".

This will filter the records you want attach the blocks by creating relations just click on to point drag it to the other point.

Immediately the debugger will test it. Now save it. And go back to your pipes.

If you click on the demo link in this case it will open the new rss feed.

Now in the rss feed you got the possibility to copy the rss feed to Outlook or Google reader or,,,

This is very powerful you can imagine what you could do more with other programs feeds etc for example in a SharePoint environment.