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This weekend I built a simple Google Chrome extension at Startup Weekend NYC. The idea was to create a professional heads-up-display that you can use to see your connections all over the web. I ended up having to hack my own company search feature for LinkedIn since they don't have an API method for that available yet. I ended up using their internal autocomplete API.

I've been in touch with some developers there and from what I hear a Company Search is a very frequent request and they plan on offering in the future.

Let me know what you think, feature requests and bug reports welcome.

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Clickable: http://whoworks.at/download

This is dope. Using this now...

Looks great! Reminds me of https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/golfffpdocdndgkahj...

Someone pointed that one out to me after I started. I really like being able to see faces, sometimes I recognize people without remembering names.

Nice extension. Couple of small suggestions

- When the extension icon is clicked, a blank screen appears for a few seconds while the api is fetching the data i assume. A loading or some kind of notification would be nice.

- I am not sure if the ability to right click on profile links and opening in a new tab is disabled. Without that opening multiple profiles is pretty hard.

Thanks for the feedback, loading message is on my todo list now.

Via Twitter, whoworks.at just let me know that they also plan to provide Firefox and Safari extensions, as well as a bookmarklet version: https://twitter.com/#!/whoworksat/status/59728620968615936

Definitely plan to provide more ways to access WhoWorks.At, any other ways you want to use it?

Two other feature ideas:

1. Alerts you of your network when you check in to a venue on foursquare.

2. Allow note-taking on contacts and companies and possibly provide an integration with Rapportive data.

I tried it on www.yahoo.com (as a former Yahoo! employee) and it said that Yahoo Shine wasn't in my network. Something odd there, maybe someone listed Yahoo Shine's address as yahoo.com or something.

That's because the search I'm doing "yahoo" doesn't return Yahoo! as the most relevant result, it's a shame but a limitation of not having an API for company search at LinkedIn. Other ideas for searching are welcome.

I started a feature request thread on LinkedIn's developer forum: http://developer.linkedin.com/thread/2993

I'm in the Navy. The vast majority of people I know are in the Navy. When I visit navy.mil, whoworks.at tells me that 1,566 people on linkedin work at Navy Federal Credit Union, and confirms that I don't know any of them.

Minor nitpick, it's "Head Up Display".

awesome job john!

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