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LinkedIn wants more attention from developers. The company is announcing that third-party developers will now be able to easily integrate the professional social network on their own business apps and websites.
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LinkedIn wants a bigger developer community to build up around its social network. The company is announcing that third-party developers will now be able to integrate the professional social network on their own business apps and websites. As Venturebeat points out, LinkedIn a (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Two years and a month after announcing that it would launch a more professional-looking developer platform than the wildly successful one at Facebook, LinkedIn today finally opened up a series of application programming interfaces for other companies to build on top of. Make no mistake about it, though - there's some good (Read More)
Huffington Post:
General consensus and research shows that the serious unemployment we are experiencing will lag 12-18 months behind any economic recovery. What's more, 60-80 percent of all jobs are filled through networking, inside contact and word of mouth. It is through networking contacts that you will hear about the hidden job market, (Read More)
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VentureBeat:
Facebook unveiled what could become a pretty powerful marketing tool for large multinationals and brands last night. You can now target specific locations and languages when you send out updates on a Facebook page. A brand like McDonald’s could use the new feature to send out coupons to Japanese followers, for example.Why i (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
When you launch a make or break initiative like Windows Azure, you better get it right.Well, from our vantage point, Microsoft got it right. How? In front of a sea of developers at the Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft trotted out a group of geek all-stars who showed how they are using Azure to do some pretty co (Read More)
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British people are among the ugliest in the world according to elitist dating website BeautifulPeople.com. Interested applicants submit their photos and are rated based on looks to determine whether they can join the site. Since Beautiful People went live worldwide last month, it has rejected 1.8 million people from 190 cou (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In August we reviewed Demand Media, one of the largest producers of content on the Webtoday. Wired Magazine recently compared Demand Media's content business to Henry Ford's production line for cars. It currently produces 4,000 new pieces of content a day. What's more, Demand Media is increasingly syndicating this content t (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Game startup Ohai is launching a new vampire-themed online world on Facebook as part of an attempt to snare more time and money from social network fans.Social games have exploded on Facebook this year. But the games have been casual, holding the interest of users for just minutes a day. Ohai wants to take social games to t (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Twitter and LinkedIn are syncing status updates as the microblogging network looks to serve a growing number of users who are tweeting for business purposes. In many ways, Twitter has become like a living resume — people use it to promote their ideas, to build relationships or to do research by asking their followers questi (Read More)
Tech Blog:
Twitter and LinkedIn will start letting users sync their accounts starting Tuesday, allowing posts from LinkedIn to appear in Twitter streams, and vice versa. It’s a move aimed at the growing base of business users who take advantage of social networking sites.LinkedIn, with more than 50m members, is the largest professiona (Read More)
VentureBeat:
As a web generation, when we’re looking for a dentist, plumber, or other small business, our first instinct is to go online when we need these services. Sure, there’s Yellow Pages that can find a name, number and address, but as consumers we are used to more and these small businesses usually lack a formal online presence. (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Offerpal Media founder Anu Shukla was hit with a lawsuit this summer over alleged shenanigans over the company’s founding, VentureBeat has learned.In August, Kevin Halpern filed a breach of contract lawsuit against Shukla. He alleges that he helped start the company in 2006 with Shukla but was cut out of promised stock owne (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Metaplace is launching audio chat in its user-generated virtual world platform today, letting users chat with one another in the 70,000 virtual worlds they have created.The San Diego-based company has developed a platform that lets users create their own characters and virtual worlds, which are all interconnected in a kind (Read More)