After CEO Jeff Weiner discussed the mission of LinkedIn, Senior VP of Products and User Experience, Deep Nishar, discussed the company approach to design and iteration, which is extremely interesting. He says that since January 2009, its members has gone from 32M members to 175M+ members. Aaron Bronzan, Product Manager announced an overhaul of its core product, Profiles.
Did you happen to get an email from LinkedIn recently, which congratulated you on having one popular profiles on the site? Then, good news – you’re special. Just like millions of others.
LinkedIn, now at 225 million users, continues to introduce more features to its site to keep people returning to the it and staying there for longer. Today it’s the turn of LinkedIn Today, its social news page, which is getting a new feature called Channels. The feature is rolling out starting today to English-speaking users.
Professional social network LinkedIn has begun allowing its members to follow companies over two years ago, giving professionals a way to easily access company updates, such as job openings, new developments and more. But the network has not allowed users to follow individuals. Today, that’s changing.
LinkedIn has shut off API access to fellow professional social network Viadeo and a number of other startups who have been tapping into LinkedIn’s firehose of data via its open API program. The other companies whose access to LinkedIn’s data that will be revoked are IKO Systems, Linked, Drag&Tag, and Yatedo.
Why?
LinkedIn's iPad app merges calendar events with LinkedIn data about the people you'll be meeting.
Video conferencing startup Blue Jeans Network is all about making video conferencing easier and more accessible for companies, with a cloud-based way to connect video conferences between existing infrastructure and even consumer-facing apps like Skype.
LinkedIn has issued a public explanation of its response to the recent password theft, along with an apology to its users.
{loadposition stephen08}LinkedIn might have initially been silent about the security breach that saw six million password hashes exposed, but the company has now explained more about what happened and its response.
Unsurprisingly, there are no clues about who 'stole' the
Hi,
Under each phone number I have many accounts linked (facebook, google, whatsapp, linkedin and twitter). How do I choose which profile picture is used? By default, the contacts seem to show the google account pic first, if that's not available then linkedin and the facebook.