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Re:Show HN: Visualize your LinkedIn profile in a timeline on Saturday November 19, 2011 @06:12PM (#3256612)
I think making into an embeddable widget is a great idea. Although the element would need to be fairly wide for it to look nice given the two columns. In the mean time, you can always link to it. I took some care to make it so that your personal lnti.me url is almost identical to your LinkedIn public url.
Re:Show HN: Visualize your LinkedIn profile in a timeline on Saturday November 19, 2011 @06:02PM (#3256583)
My Github repo is private right now. The JQuery is still a little rough. The biggest issue is uses images for the "tips" coming out of the cards. I would like to generalize that and make it more configurable. Plus I would need to throw together some documentation as well.
Re:Show HN: Visualize your LinkedIn profile in a timeline on Saturday November 19, 2011 @05:54PM (#3256564)
Sorry for the bug. I'm looking into in right now. My guess is it has something to do with special characters in your public profile URL.
Re:Show HN: Visualize your LinkedIn profile in a timeline on Saturday November 19, 2011 @05:51PM (#3256556)
The Obama profile looks really awesome. I wasn't aware of this service before. I do wonder how much of the profile is hand-crafted vs auto-generated from a standard data-source.
Re:Show HN: Visualize your LinkedIn profile in a timeline on Saturday November 19, 2011 @03:29PM (#3256150)
It is definitely modeled after the Facebook timeline. I'm planning to allow users to add a cover to their timeline just like FB. That will make their profile even more appealing.
Re:Show HN: Visualize your LinkedIn profile in a timeline on Saturday November 19, 2011 @02:22PM (#3255975)
I agree there isn't much monetization value to the app. I mainly did it as an exercise to learn Rails 3.1, Coffeescript and Mongo.

I also plan to open source the JQuery plugin that constructs the timeline. Hopefully someone will find that useful for their projects.