October 31, 2011 : Comments (4)
Google+ Updates Android App, Adds New Design And Other Features
LinkedIn Makes Job Hunting Easier In Groups Tab
Helping professionals find job leads faster, professional networking platform LinkedIn enhanced its Groups tab to provide more relevant job opportunities based on the communities you interact with. LinkedIn released its updates Tuesday, focusing on providing tailor-fit job opportunities in groups. Clicking on a group from your LinkedIn Groups menu, you can now... Read more » LinkedIn Company Search Upgrade Will Help Jobseekers
It's been a busy few days for LinkedIn: being blocked in parts of China and then reinstated, and launching a Year in Review app. The professional networking service wasn't quite done there though, as it has launched a new version of its Company Search feature. Formerly, you might only have been able to find a company by its name, location, industry or size, but... Read more » LinkedIn Granted Amnesty in China After Brief Block
China's "Great Firewall" looks like it is letting LinkedIn off the hook after being blocked on Thursday. The professional networking platform was blocked in certain regions of China after Jasmine Revolution advocates formed a group on LinkedIn to discuss whether or not the pro-democracy protests that shook up regimes in Egypt and Tunisia should spark in... Read more » LinkedIn Launches Year In Review App
LinkedIn has made it easier than ever to find out which of your contacts have changed jobs since 2009 with the release of a Year in Review app for the Web. The app allows you to see which of your connections found themselves a new job in a clear and concise way. The beauty of it is that it displays this information by year: 2009, 2010 and 2011, helping you to... Read more » LinkedIn Blocked In China
Professional networking service LinkedIn confirmed Thursday that its website had been blocked in parts of China and that it was investigating the matter. According to Business Week, it had been reported earlier Thursday by WebSitePulse and just-ping.com -- services which monitor access to websites from locations around the world -- that users in Shanghai and... Read more » Facebook, LinkedIn, Yelp Rank in Top 50 Sites for Web Traffic
Facebook is leading the charge for social media sites in the #4 slot for unique visitors, according to media metric ranker comScore. Facebook sits up there with the big ones like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft with just over 153 million unique visitors in January. You have to scan down a bit to find LinkedIn at #36 with 29 million unique visitors. It's seen a recent... Read more » LinkedIn Sees Surge in Usage With B2B Logins
LinkedIn is on the rise. While most of us opt out of filling out long forms when we want to register for a website and just use Facebook Connect to pass our information along, businesses seem to be using LinkedIn to interact with each other in growing numbers. Gigya, the social platform provider that allows you to fill out forms by using social media information,... Read more » LinkedIn Introduces Simpler Account Settings Dashboard
Professional networking service LinkedIn has rolled out a simpler way to manage your settings and account, named the LinkedIn Account and Settings dashboard. The roll out is taking place gradually as the feature is being tested and feedback is gathered, but those concerned about privacy should not that none of their settings will be changed with the... Read more »
Backupify Gives Your Linkedin Profile Some Backup
Backupify, a popular and effective provider of online backup, archiving and export services, announced a new Linkedin backup solution. Linkedin users now have access to independently archive important information on their profiles, such as work experience, education, recommendations, etc. Before Backupify, Linkedin did not have a system for backing up users' data.... Read more »
