Friday, March 11, 2011

LinkedIn Launches Social News Product


LinkedIn, the internet social networking site for professionals, launched a service that creates a customized online newspaper from articles being shared by the network's more than 90 million members.

The new service, called LinkedIn today, displays excerpts of the most popular articles in various industries.

The site is a popular resource for job-hunters and for people looking to expand their network of business contacts.




With the new service LinkedIn users will be able to create seperate news pages for upto 22 industries of interest, including the Internet and Healthcare. Articles will appear in LinkedIn Today based upon how often they have been shared by members of LinkedIn.

The service will also include articles that are shared on Twitter by LinkedIn members who have linked their Twitter and LinkedIn accounts together.

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