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Linkedin.com the professional network which according to this research has been touted as the most popular network in India and which was recently in the news for looking out for local tie ups in India to grow its Indian userbase has launched its app platform.
Linkedin app platform is an open social based platform called InApps. [...]

LinkedIn is soon to launch its own adnetwork ofcourse in collaboration with ad network Collective Media (which targets high-end media sites) reports Techcrunch. This isn’t the first time a large publisher in the US has gone into launching its own ad network. Recently even technorati had launched its own ad network for blogs in the [...]

Update:
CMBC.com and LinkedIn have collaborated together to enable users to share and discuss content with their professional network! As a result of the tie-up, CNBC.com is expected to generate more pageviews and extended reach with targeted sharing of content with the top notch in the genre and LinkedIn shall get more mileage and functinality for [...]

Branding is nothing more than a buzz created by the modern businessmen to promote their brands. Though this was a partial truth the other half is that today there is nothing that your competitors cannot duplicate within a short period of time. The only thing that will help you to move on is better branding.

India is very connected on linkedin as alexa statistics would show you that linkedin is ranked as the 144th most popular site in India (which is higher than its global rank of 191) contributing about 6.8% to the overall traffic on linkedin second only to the United States. So I do expect some India specific applications/additions to linked in over time.

OK, this news seems exclusive kinds. I couldn’t find any links anywhere else about this. Rushabh even suggested we term it as “Breakeing News”. When I opened up my Orkut account in the morning today, what shouted at me was a message informing me about the new possibility of adding new applications to Orkut. What was shown was an icon for one of the application called Hangman. Strangely, when I clicked on the application, it took me to a page called AppDirectory. I expected the Hangman application to be opened first.

The Web is already Social. But engagement and interaction is still a problem.
 
 
There are multiple networks. The trouble with API’s today is that one application is restricted only to one network. And there are multiple networks.
 
So developers have to question –
 
-       Which API’s should I learn?
-       Which network should I get bet big [...]

We come to the end of 2007, well almost, having covered almost all the International stories of the dot com World. For many in the dot com World, the year was dominated by mostly one story – the huge amount that Microsoft paid for a miniscule stake in Facebook. At WATBlog, we covered it extensively [...]

Companies in India, especially all IT companies, have started recruiting through social media networks and blogs. Earlier we had blogged about social media sites being a threat to job portals. This is a very good trend coming up as recruiters get a chance to make a background check of the person they are recruiting. Websites [...]

As we had earlier blogged about the social networking sites taking over the world, the trend is fast evolving into tapping the available opportunities as well as fast creating the opportunity for the lay man to improve their lifestyle. We had even blogged about a social networking sites like babajobs.com creating employment opportunities for the [...]

While we wake up to a new social networking site everyday, well almost everyday, here in India, as comprehensively documented by Rajiv in his India 2.0 series, interesting activity is happening outside of India in the social networking scene.
There’s talk of Wide Area Social Networking or WASN, Business 2.0 has an article on Linkedin which [...]