The smartphone apps are getting popular as a way of access-on-the-move within the business of our lives. LinkedIn understands the nature of people using the smartphone app and that is why you see their mobile population grow more than 2 folds in the last year since they provided a completely new LinkedIn app for the Android(s) and the iPhone(s). The reported figure grew from 10% to 23% since 16th August 2011. Not surprising, as the new app launched last year was a nice way to keep user interested. This year just after the anniversary of the new app version launched last year, LinkedIn has provided an update (both launched and coming soon) that people were expecting to see in the app and ones that are highly anticipated and expected.
As announced by Joff Redfern on the official LinkedIn blog post, the new updates bring the features for both the Android and iOS users. There is also a special update only for the iPad. Lets first see the features available on both the platforms:
Get notified
The smartphone app will now get real-time notifications for the activities like someone liking your shares on LinkedIn, commenting on them. And also when someone views your profile or accepts your invitation. This is not the exhaustive list of course, but it gets interesting already!
The smartphone app will now get real-time notifications for the activities like someone liking your shares on LinkedIn, commenting on them. And also when someone views your profile or accepts your invitation. This is not the exhaustive list of course, but it gets interesting already!
Company pages goes mobile
A massive feature update and one that should boost the number of people looking to follow one or the other update from a particular company they may be interested in. With the Company Pages making their appearance on the mobile version, LinkedIn users can now see and follow all details about a company like who from your network work at a particular company, the job postings from that company and any update that the company makes available via their news updates.
A massive feature update and one that should boost the number of people looking to follow one or the other update from a particular company they may be interested in. With the Company Pages making their appearance on the mobile version, LinkedIn users can now see and follow all details about a company like who from your network work at a particular company, the job postings from that company and any update that the company makes available via their news updates.
Job Listings
Access to job listings and openings that you are interested in are directly available within your mobile news stream.
Access to job listings and openings that you are interested in are directly available within your mobile news stream.
As for the iPad, the app now is available in 6 new languages. These include French, German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean. A big push for the majority of the user base that are outside US (60% is what Joff reports it to be). The company says it has plans to include more soon. These are good and very handy features and with the ability to edit your profile on smartphone "coming soon" the app will be a very interesting point to keep yourself updated on the professional site. What are your views on the app? Share with us in the comments section below.
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