Tag Archives: Community websites

LinkedIn to face lawsuit for sending repeat invitations to your contacts

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Surely we are all aware of the fact that giving LinkedIn access to our email accounts means that we are allowing the site to use our contact list to recruit new members. This seems to be quite normal...

YouTube Founder’s AVOS Systems Sold Delicious to Science Inc. for an Undisclosed Sum

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The social bookmarking site titled Delicious has been owned and resold and then re-owned yet nothing came of it. It has been ten years since this has been going on. Finally, now it is being sold off...

Why Every Employee Should Be Building Weak Ties At Work

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Oftentimes we focus on building strong relationships with people, strong ties. After all, the better we know someone and the stronger the relationship is, the more valuable it is for us right? ...

LinkedIn to launch site in Chinese

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BEIJING (AP) — LinkedIn is launching a Chinese-language site for the most populous Internet market and says it will comply with the communist government's censorship rules. The professional...

LinkedIn Rumbles Into China, Seeking Truce With Censors

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LinkedIn is pushing full-strength into China, with a new, Chinese-language service that hopes to attract as many of the country’s 140 million professionals as possible. Unlike other U.S. Internet...

LinkedIn gives members more room to share insights

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — LinkedIn is hoping to unleash more wisdom on its professional networking service by giving its 277 million accountholders more space to share their experiences and insights. A...

More Privacy Controls for Anonymous App ‘Secret’

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One of the hot new technology trends to come out of Silicon Valley recently is anonymous social networking, the act of posting nameless confessionals to strangers on apps like Whisper or Secret, a...

SWAM : How much longer will LinkedIn Ignore its Effects?

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In August, contributor George Anders introduced readers to the concept of LinkedIn Groups’ Site-Wide Automated Moderating, or “SWAM” in LinkedIn Tells Noisiest Users To Hush, And a Ruckus Ensues. For...

Zuckerberg’s Embrace Of Anonymity Marks Shift In Tech Industry Attitudes

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In a recent interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that he thought it was “somewhat of a burden” if you are “always under the pressure of a real identity.” If...

3 Reasons To Be Cautious Of Secret-Sharing App Whisper’s Claim To Anonymity

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If the Catholic church didn’t collect handfuls of cash every Sunday, it might consider streaming the real-life accounts that priests hear in hushed confession as entertainment. Luckily no one with a...