LinkedIn was breached again. A new report tells us that more than 700 million users' information was exposed online by another hacker and put up for sale.
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Back in the day, you could differentiate between two social media apps by the features they offered. For instance, Instagram was more photo-focused, while Twitter was text-based. Times are changing, and the only differentiator between social media apps is the color of their UI. First, it was Stories, then TikTok-like short videos, and now, it’s Clubhouse’s audio-based chatrooms. Social media giants are hopping on the trend of audio chat rooms like there is no tomorrow. After Twitter, Facebook, Telegram, and Spotify, the latest one to embrace the trend is LinkedIn.
Developer Alessandro Paluzzi, took to Twitter to reveal that the LinkedIn app already has a hidden interface for its new audio chat platform. Similar to other copies, the app’s version of Clubhouse works like live rooms. Just like other copies, users can listen or interact with others via audio and quick reactions on LinkedIn’s Clubhouse rival. The development was confirmed by TechCrunch where a LinkedIn spokesperson revealed that the company has been working on its own live audio chat room feature. However, the actual release date of the feature remains unknown.
“We’re seeing nearly 50% growth in conversations on LinkedIn reflected in stories, video shares, and posts on the platform,” Suzi Owens, a spokesperson for LinkedIn, said when confirming its audio feature’s development. “We’re doing some early tests to create a unique audio experience connected to your professional identity. And, we’re looking at how we can bring audio to other parts of LinkedIn such as events and groups, to give our members even more ways to connect to their community,” she said.
LinkedIn believes that users have been interacting more and more with stories and video sharing. Hence, an audio platform will also attract the community’s attention. Basically, a feature gets tried and tested on seven other social media apps and LinkedIn hops on to make its own version.
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Since Snapchat introduced the feature first, Stories have been adopted by several social media apps, including Instagram, WhatsApp, FaceBook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and more! We are at a point where all social media apps share almost the same set of features but with different product designs and colors. However, Stories mostly share the same objective – to update your friends. Now, LinkedIn is introducing a new way to use the stories to your advantage.
Today, the company has announced that LinkedIn profiles will now allow users to add short “cover letter” videos to their LinkedIn profiles. As per the official blog post, nearly 80% of hiring managers view video as an important tool for vetting potential job-seekers.
Moreover, LinkedIn’s CPO Tomer Cohen said the feature will allow users to “personalize your first ‘hello’” to fellow community members and recruiters. Profiles with Video cover stories will show an orange ring around their profile photo. Once opened, the video will play like a usual Story within a frame. Moreover, the support for captioning will be arriving “soon.”
Apart from the LinkedIn Cover Stories, the company has rolled out few more new features. You can now include an optional field at the top next to your name. It will let you specify your preferred pronouns. Moreover, LinkedIn is building tools that will help showcase the specific skills of its users. It includes a new “creator mode” as well as a dedicated services page that will prove useful especially for freelancers and contractors.
The former will turn LinkedIn users into veritable industry influencers. Additionally, the “connect” button on the top of a user’s page can be changed to a “follow” button to help build engagement. In creator mode, the Featured and Activity sections will be more prominently displayed. Users can also add hashtags to their profiles for topics specific to their interests.
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LinkedIn has today announced that the professional networking platform is getting a major redesign after almost half a decade. The biggest change introduced by the redesign is the arrival of Stories. Yes, LinkedIn is also doing Stories now. Over tha past few years, Stories have made the jump from Snapchat and Instagram to the likes of Twitter (as Fleets), YouTube (as YouTube Shorts) and even Pinterest (as Story Pins). Coming to a LinkedIn Story, it will be visible only for 24 hours and will also let followers send private feedback, just like you would do on WhatsApp or any other platform. LinkedIn Stories are rolling out today in the US and Canada, while a global release will happen in the coming weeks.
Coming to the new tools making their way to LinkedIn, the first one is an improved messaging experience. Here’s what it brings:
The company is also improving the search interface by offering a more organized results with jobs, people, courses, groups, events and content in one place. For example, if you search Python, you will now see people who are skilled in Python, relevant jobs, learning courses, and groups worth joining. Additionally, LinkedIn is bringing the keyboard filters to its mobile app. Plus, users can now filter companies by location, industry and size on both desktop and mobile. LinkedIn also promises that a dark mode is coming soon.
Talking about the redesign, the UI now uses a warmer color palette that includes blue and green accents to signal action and selection. Plus, the buttons now have a more rounded appearance while the overall look is now cleaner with more whitespace, less divider lines, improved contrast, optimized tech scaling, and bigger touch targets. “We also developed new illustrations that capture a wide range of different professional fields and industries, and represent people with different abilities and ethnic backgrounds,” the company says.
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Do you have a name that people most often mispronounce? Pronouncing a name incorrectly is impolite. Hence, LinkedIn is adding a new feature to let people recognize one’s identity correctly. The new feature lets you add a 10-second audio recording of your name pronunciation. Your profile visitors will be able to hear the clip by pressing a small button on your profile.
“Everyone, including myself, makes mistakes when pronouncing other people’s names,” said Joseph Akoni, a LinkedIn product manager who worked on the feature. “I’ve encountered this personally with my Nigerian middle name—there’s a 99% chance someone won’t pronounce it correctly on the first try.”
To use this feature, you need to record your name on a mobile device (Android or iOS). However, you’ll only be able to play name pronunciations on mobile or desktop. You can visit the official LinkedIn post here for detailed instructions. The feature will be rolling out to all the 690 million LinkedIn users over the next month.
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Earlier this month, TikTok was discovered grabbing clipboard content when users typed on their phone, something the company quickly promised to fix. Now, the LinkedIn app has been spotted copying users’ clipboard content, thanks to the same privacy feature baked into iOS 14 that also caught TikTok red-handed last week.
LinkedIn blamed this intrusive behavior on a bug and mentioned this is not how the app is supposed to function on a day-to-day basis, says a ZDNet report. As per a Urspace.io developer who tweeted about it alongside a video of it in action, the LinkedIn app for iOS copied clipboard content from his MacBook Pro while he was using an iPad Pro.
Erran Berger, VP of Engineering at LinkedIn, later clarified in a tweet that the company doesn’t store or transmit the clipboard content. “We’ve traced this to a code path that only does an equality check between the clipboard contents and the currently typed content in a text box,” he explained.
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Pretty much all of Microsoft's products and services reported substantial year-on-year hikes in January - March 2018 revenue, from Surface hardware to Xbox software.
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Azure and Office subscriptions lead the charge. Even the Xbox One X is outperforming Surface devices. And by this point, phones are far out of the picture.
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Twitter, which has been not been growing as investors would like for it to, may seek stimulus from a new owner. At least, if it lets itself be bought.CNBC sources are saying that multiple possible acquirers have expressed interest in buying the social media platform, including Google and customer relationship management company Salesforce. Word from TechCrunch says that Microsoft and Verizon are also in the running. The company’s board of directors seems very ...
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For all its recent mobile failings, Microsoft remains one of the world’s largest, most profitable businesses, and the only way to continue growing is through service diversification, mergers and acquisitions.As such, it should probably come as no shocker that Redmond just entered into a “definitive agreement” likely to see it snap up social networking giant LinkedIn by the end of the year. This follows closely after another relatively high-profile purchase,
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Hey college kids! If you’re a little late to the whole “finding your first big job” thing, you still have a lot of resources available to you. But if you’re not going to deal with the counselor and if all the job sites get a little heavy on the mind,
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