LinkedIn Revamps BlackBerry App

No stone unturned seems to be the policy LinkedIn is looking at for the moment. After a very effective and massive update to LinkedIn profile pages, the company has turned its head to another update. This time it's on the Smartphone front. The site' Blackberry app has gone for a complete makeover. See Also: Viadeo Launches Android App So while their closest competitor, French based PSN Viadeo.com were focused on providing an update to their app...

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Meet The New LinkedIn Profiles

LinkedIn has been very heavy on the changes that its making to the site in the near past. The recent update or news about the change comes in part of the main product on the site, Profiles. With 175Mn members already using its services, the company has been taking all care to make sure they make this number explode. The changes to the Profile pages aren't really changes. You may say the page has received a new look altogether. In line to what we...

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Google SiteLinks Policy Changes

Google recently made changes to the policies concerning sitelinks that are used to determine the ad serving for webmasters that have Ad words running for their respective sites. If you use sitelinks with your Ad campaigns or plan to use them, read on... If you want to learn more about Adwords or Sitelinks you may visit this help centre thread. In general sitelinks help your readers(rather the net users who see your Ads) reach specific parts of your website more quickly. So webmasters create Ad campaigns to target users and make them land on...

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Android App Monetization in India

When you see a particular market grow like India has in the near past, you got be upfront with your business ideas based on the location. So when Android device activations jumped more than 400% in the past year with Indians downloading more apps in the past six months then last 3yrs combined, its time Google gave more freedom and options to Indian app developers in Google play. Since India is now the fourth largest market place for app downloads,...

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Nexus Devices Getting Android 4.1.2

The anticipations of LG Nexus and Android 4.2 are still open and pretty wide but while everybody is busy thinking on what Android 4.2 will be bringing in with and will the new Nexus be launched on 4.2, Google' Android team has released a small software upgrade of Jelly Bean. The new update is versioned at 4.1.2 and contains small bug fixes and performance improvements.  The upgrade which comes via OTA has been sent to some Google Nexus...

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Viadeo Launches Android App

Yes baby we waited for so long on this one. Viadeo, the French parent of India's Career and Business Networking site ApnaCircle.com, has finally introduced itself on the Google play store. Viadeo Android app is now available for you to download in the Google store. The app has an update date of 11th October 2012 and has already been downloaded more than 50K times. There hasn't been much official announcement from Viadeo (apart from this...

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Google Updates Page Layout Algorithm

If you have a website that offers a good amount of ad slots above the fold on its pages, you may want to give your page layout another look. At least that's what Google hinted when it introduced the Page Layout Filter algo right at the start of this year, January 2012. And now a couple of months away to end the year, they have announced a refresh of the algo and as per Matt Cutts tweet on 9th Oct 2012, this update will effect around 0.7% of the...

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Gmail Launches Free SMS Service

If you logged in to your individual Gmail or Google apps account since yesterday, you would see a message as shown in the below image capture. And in case you haven't, there is some good news for you from Google. The search giant has started providing free SMS feature from the Gmail chat. All you need to do is check if your country and the network provider that you use are listed and supported. Just visit this page for the details on the countries...

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Twitter' New Look For Profiles

The cover image fever seems to be gripping one social network after the other. After Facebook introduced it, we saw Google plus use a similar sort of design with user profile and pack of five or a banner image. We also saw LinkedIn use the same on their career/company page and now Twitter has it rolling with the new profile changes introduced a couple of weeks back. You can now upload a new header image (as Twitter calls it) and the feature is...

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