LinkedIn Brings Products, Recommendations And More To Company Pages

Anything that makes actually promoting on LinkedIn more useful is welcome. Company pages launched short on vision, slow on iteration to utility. Worth giving company pages a third look about now.

On company pages, administrators can add products and services tab. So an accounting business can showcase various financial services the company offers. LinkedIn is taking it one step further to allow companies to tailor lists of products and services, based on member profiles. So a business owner can showcase one set of products (or services) to accountants in the aviation industry and another to engineers in the shipping industry.

Why the Creator of Google Maps is Headed for Facebook

More in the on-going saga of high profile Google employees heading to Facebook. Cerebral upside: more Google thinking at Facebook changes [my] perception of Facebook.

Rasmussen describes Google as “unwieldy.” And while the energy at Google is “just amazing,” that the size of the company makes it difficult to get things done.
In part, Rasmussen describes his decision to leave Google in terms of the opportunities elsewhere. The offer – one that came in the form of a personal pitch from Mark Zuckerberg himself – was “too good to refuse.”
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“It feels to me that Facebook may be a sort of once-in-a-decade type of company,” says Rasmussen. It may be, that a decade ago, that is how we would have described his former employer.

Android market share gain coming at the expense of BlackBerry

According to NPD’s Mobile Phone Track, Android was installed on 44 percent of all smartphones sold during the third quarter, up from 33 percent in the second quarter, while iOS saw a slight bump from 22 to 23 percent and RIM dropped into third place at 22 percent.

Makes total sense to me. Here’s what I’m hearing, based on my own “rigorous” empirical research: my Blackberry using friends don’t like the devices and would love an iPhone, but they hate AT&T more than their phones, so they go for Android as the default other choice that’s not an iPhone. I have to wonder what an iPhone-carrying-Verizon will do to that process?

‘I Remember’

Paid for by the International Brotherhood of Bottlemakers Assistance Fund. Fascinating and passionate ad the Democrats have yet to achieve.

Windows XP falls under 60%, IE8 loses share for the first time

At Ars, our readers have embraced Microsoft’s latest operating system much faster. 24.73 percent of Ars readers use Windows XP, 7.89 percent are on Vista, and 28.18 percent have Windows 7.

I know. It shouldn’t surprise me, but it does. Not that Windows XP is still such a stronghold for Microsoft, but that Vista was such an abomination. Regarding browser use, I just had a support call from a client in which it was discovered that the were still running Netscape Navigator.

That is all.