Last week, on February 11th, Alexandra Watson (aka @happinesscoach) received a very exciting email in her inbox and promptly tweeted the news out to her 66,000 followers: Hurray, I am so super-duper popular on LinkedIn. My life now has meaning. Read More >>
A new report out today from security company ALLOW shows all the tricks that identity thieves use to stalk their victims. None of it's particularly sophisticated, but holy hell is it creepy. Read More >>
Featured comment by klinkenberg:
"Yea it asked me to pay to find out about myself too. I know a way to get the info for free though. I just ask myself." More »
LinkedIn weakly admitsstill denies it was hacked, despite the fact that you can download a 270 MB list of all its hacked passwords. Was yours part of the list? That depends—was your password cockmaster? Find out below. Read More >>
Featured comment by Kushan:
"I use an 8-char password that's just a mix of letters and numbers. It's all lower case and frankly, the numbers are just used as replacements for lett..." More »
The Next Web is reporting that LinkedIn's iOS app collects personal data from its calendar — without explicit consent — and sends it back to the company's servers in plain text. If that wasn't enough to ruin LinkedIn's day, 6.5 million passwords have also been hacked. Read More >>
Constantly being bombarded with emails urging you to join your friends' and co-workers' professional networks on LinkedIn is incredibly annoying these days. But the folks at Squirrel-Monkey show us that it could have been a lot worse had LinkedIn existed in the '80s. Read More >>
Featured comment by Dotter:
"If LinkedIn had been invented in the 80s, you'd probably have been using the arrow keys to get the 'cursor' to move around, not a mouse. :D" More »
We pulled a bunch of detailed information about Apple's employees from LinkedIn - which is all available on the site. It turns out Apple employs way more general and administrative people than research and development engineers, according to the LinkedIn data. It also hires way faster than most other tech companies in the industry. Read More >>
Featured comment by Kauzion:
"Yeah right. Is that why iPhone market share is constantly dropping and has been for like 12 months?
Could it really not just be that Apple focuses ..." More »
If high school taught me anything, where you sit—and who you sit next to—in the cafeteria is absolutely imperative to your social status and future happiness. And that lesson is now being retaught by a Dutch airline—they'll let you chose your seatmate based on their social media profile. Read More >>
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