LinkedIn badge notification in my mail
I was cleaning my outlook.com (hotmail) inbox and I found an unread two month old email from LinkedIn, I open it up to find that the header has a badge like notification number:
Curious, I opened a new tab in Chrome to checkout my LinkedIn account, and surprise... I really have 3 new notifications from yesterday (I check it almost every day) :O
I came back to outlook, the badge continuous there, but after I reload the page the badge was gone:
And of course in LinkedIn, the notifications were gone too:
I remember see this before using my phone, but I assumed there was some kind of connection between the Mail app and the LinkedIn app. In case you wonder, I do not have the chrome extension from LinkedIn installed. Now the question... How the hell I can see this dinamic LinkedIn notification in outlook? and how can I do something similar with my work?
Thank you all in advance, hope you can guide me to achieve something similar.
Its possible that they rolled their own application for this, but they could also be using https://movableink.com/.
If not by way of an app (which it does not look as though it's obviously a third-party) they could be using an API of their own to create a dynamic image, which appears be token-ized per the user, via some custom parameters at the end of the source path.
<img alt="LinkedIn" border="0" src="https://www.linkedin.com/comm/dms/logo?midToken=AQEAbDS60hzUFQ&trk=eml-email_notification_single_search_appearance_01-null-9-null&trkEmail=eml-email_notification_single_search_appearance_01-null-9-null-null-177dyy%7Ejar67ah9%7E91-null-comms%7Ebadging%7Edynamic&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Aemail_email_notification_single_search_appearance_01%3BWm%2FdutMeQduePeHnJ8bb5w%3D%3D&_sig=2cAXEIMlmrEo01"
height="42" style="outline:none;-ms-interpolation-mode:bicubic;color:#FFFFFF;text-decoration:none;">
Any LinkedIn insiders care to spilll the beans? This would be an awesome write-up for Medium or the Litmus community. I'd imagine @Kevin Mandeville could guess more into what magic might pull this off from his work on the #LitmusLive twitter feeds in email the past few years.
If not by way of an app (which it does not look as though it's obviously a third-party) they could be using an API of their own to create a dynamic image, which appears be token-ized per the user, via some custom parameters at the end of the source path.
Here's the complete image tag from an notification email I received this week:
<img alt="LinkedIn" border="0" src="https://www.linkedin.com/comm/dms/logo?midToken=AQEAbDS60hzUFQ&trk=eml-email_notification_single_search_appearance_01-null-9-null&trkEmail=eml-email_notification_single_search_appearance_01-null-9-null-null-177dyy%7Ejar67ah9%7E91-null-comms%7Ebadging%7Edynamic&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Aemail_email_notification_single_search_appearance_01%3BWm%2FdutMeQduePeHnJ8bb5w%3D%3D&_sig=2cAXEIMlmrEo01"
height="42" style="outline:none;-ms-interpolation-mode:bicubic;color:#FFFFFF;text-decoration:none;">
Any LinkedIn insiders care to spilll the beans? This would be an awesome write-up for Medium or the Litmus community. I'd imagine @Kevin Mandeville could guess more into what magic might pull this off from his work on the #LitmusLive twitter feeds in email the past few years. Very cool stuff!
Sorry to reply to an old message, but I have a question.
How does this dynamig image works on Gmail Webapp if Google have a cache of the images?
I was also thinking in a dynamic generated image, but if you re-open an email, it gets updated. May it be kinetic content?
Thanks