LinkedIn Introduces Video to Professional Profiles
You can now add video to professional profiles on LinkedIn, according to the LinkedIn Blog. With this new feature, you can now “tell a story” through video as you look for professional connections or a new job or whatever you use LinkedIn for. Getting noticed is obviously a competitive business, and video is obviously sweeping through the internet because it shows rather than tells. And what better way to give yourself the proper presentation than through a compelling video? Let’s take a look at this new feature.
LinkedIn Adds Video to the Professional Profile
So this is awesome, right? You can present yourself to people around the world with actual dynamic visuals rather than just a picture and some text. And I bet some awesome videos of people selling their skills start popping up. You can also comment and “like” the videos as well, because this is a social thing where you’re trying to start a discussion.
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Tag! You’re It! Instagram adds new option.
Instagram is adding one of Facebook’s most popular features — photo tagging — to its iOS and Android apps Thursday. You can now tag people in photos, and browse feeds of photos you and others appear in.
Previously, the only way to find out whether a photo of you was uploaded to Instagram was to crawl through your activity feed, hoping someone had mentioned your username in a caption (i.e., @laureni). Likewise, there’s been no easy way to share a photo someone uploaded of you to your own followers; oftentimes, I see friends share screenshots of another user’s photo that they appear in, captioned with the hashtag #regram.
Unfortunately, @mentions will not be automatically converted into photo tags, a spokesperson for Instagram confirmed. If you want to add tags to your old photos, you’ll have to do it manually, one by one.
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Twitter Advertising Now Open to All US Users
Twitter advertising now has options for all U.S. users. The company had previously made advertising on the platform invite-only.
Twitter advertising was first introduced in 2010, and has been expanding advertising on the social network ever since. Most recently, Twitter opened its advertising API to third parties, which will let larger advertisers create more sophisticated campaigns on Twitter.
“Over the past year we’ve listened carefully to feedback from the thousands of businesses and individuals who’ve had access to the self-serve tool, and made enhancements based on their suggestions, including more targeting and reporting in the UI,” the company wrote in a blog post. “It’s because of this feedback that effective today, we’re ending our invite-only period and opening signups for our self-serve ad platform to all users in the U.S.”
The company, which is expected to go public within the next year or so, is is projected to earn $1 billion in ad revenues in 2014, according to eMarketer.
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1st Web site brought back to life
A quick history lesson for readers.
In 1989, British physicist Tim Berners-Lee invented what would be called the “World Wide Web.” The first trials were held in December 1990 at the laboratories of CERN, the major research laboratory in Geneva that’s better known today as the home of the Large Hadron Collider.
On April 30, 1993, CERN published a statement — on the Web, no less! — that made the technology behind the World Wide Web available on a royalty-free basis. (Specifically, this was the software required to run a Web server, a basic browser, and a library of code.)
And thus the modern public Web was born, at info.cern.ch.
The first Web site in the world was, understandably, dedicated to the World Wide Web project itself. (For Apple geeks reading this, it was hosted on Berners-Lee’s NeXT computer.) The Web site described what the Web was and instructed how to access others’ documents.
That original NeXT machine is still at CERN, but the world’s first Web site is no longer online at its original address.
via First-ever Web site is brought back to life | Tech Culture – CNET News.
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