LinkedIn has launched a new beta product called Career Explorer, aimed at college graduates. "Students now have the ability to explore different career paths based on their school, level of education, and desired industry," explains LinkedIn’s DJ Patil. "In addition to visualizing various career paths, they’ll also be able to find relevant job opportunities, top …
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The Social Network Runs Away with Weekend Box Office
The Social Network led the box office over the weekend. The film, which opened on Friday, took in $23 million, opening in 2,771 theaters, according to BoxOfficeMojo. The film grossed more than doubled the number 2, 3, and 4 movies – Legends of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, and …
Feed The Children Launches Facebook And Twitter Campaign
Feed the Children is asking people to help launch a social media campaign for National Hunger Awareness Month via its “Take Action” promotion. People can take 10 Take 10 minutes to join and follow Feed The Children’s Facebook and Twitter accounts, give $10 to help feed children and families, and tell 10 friends. "It is …
Should Google Buy Twitter, Yahoo Merge with AOL?
There is a lot of talk going on about what should or shouldn’t happen among prominent Internet companies (as opposed to what actually is happening). For example, a lot of people have been saying Google should buy Twitter. In many ways, such move would make a great deal of sense for Google, who is looking to …
Justin Timberlake, Aaron Sorkin Discuss "The Social Network"
Comedy Central was all about The Social Netork last night. The Daily Show had Justin Timberlake, who portrays Sean Parker in the film, and The Colbert Report had Aaron Sorkin, the screenwriter. Timberlake says he’s "ridiculously stupid with computers". He calls Zuckerberg a "brilliant mind". Colbert asks Sorkin fiction or fact? Sorkin responds, "Fiction…I’m sorry, …
Facebook Launches New Features for Photos
Facebook has introduced 3 new features for Photos. These include high resolution images (storing bigger pictures), a new viewer for browsing photos, and a new uploader with better tagging. Facebook is rolling out support for print-quality, hi-res photos. They’re increasing the size of the photos stored from 720 pixels to 2048 pixels on the largest …
Signs That Blogging is Not Only Alive, But More Critical Than Ever
Every so often, one of those "social media vs. blogs" discussions comes up. Questions like "is social media killing blogging?" gets asked. Time and time again, the answer is a resounding "no", but various pieces of news released this week seem to really drive that point home. Blogs: Are they more or less important in …
Influence Isn’t Just About Popularity, It’s About Controlling the Conversation
Vocus and Brian Solis partnered to conducted a survey about "What makes an influencer" and how brands can increase their influence. 50% indicated that that the most important action for increasing influence was to create, post or share compelling content. I posted an article about blogging that pretty fmuch falls in line with this sentiment. …
Facebook Reveals Interesting Info About People Who "Like" Content
Facebook posted a note sharing some insights into who are the biggest "likers" of content on Facebook, and how engaged they are compared to other Facebook users. "People who click the Facebook Like button are more engaged, active and connected than the average Facebook user," Facebook says. "The average ‘liker’ has 2.4x the amount of …
Variety Partners With Fizziology On Popular Movies In Social Media
Social media research company Fizziology, has partnered with Variety to create a weekly chart of the most popular movies in social media. The Weekly Fizz10, Fizziology’s proprietary chart of the 10 ten movies in social media, will appear every Wednesday on Variety.com. The partnership also includes the use of additional Fizziology social media data. The …
Seesmic Updates iPhone App with New Features and Ads
Popular social media client Seesmic has launched some new updates for its iPhone app. It now supports Retina Display, creating and adding users to Twitter lists, in-reply-to-converation and direct messages in threads, checking private Facebook messages, pull-down to refresh, and Instapaper & Read it Later integration. Seesmic for iPhone now takes advantage of the Retina …
CareerBuilder Launches Facebook Referral App
CareerBuilder has launched a new application called “Work@” that allows employees to share their company’s job openings on their Facebook page. Work@ pulls open jobs housed on a company’s website or in their Applicant Tracking System. After an employee adds the Work@ application to their Facebook account, CareerBuilder’s job recommendation engine identifies matches in that …
