LinkedIn has always fascinated me on if and how they release information on their new functionalities or services.  On the one had, the LinkedIn Groups Product Forum LinkedIn Group, often moderated by LinkedIn employees, is very open with releasing information on future roadmaps as well as welcoming feedback from the LinkedIn community concerning LinkedIn Groups.  On the other hand, LinkedIn releases a beta feature (like their new user interface, for instance) to only a small portion of their users but writes a blog post announcing it to everyone.  There have been other beta features that have only been released to a …