By Jane Gracielo, on August 28th, 2011% 
Two-thirds of adult internet users now say they use sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn and when asked for a single word to illustrate how they feel concerning their experience of social networking “Good” is the most common option.
The latest answer to emerge from the Pew Internet & American Life Project show that there has been a continued increase in the use of social networking sites over the six years from 2005. In 2005, 8 percent of internet-utilizing adults in the US – 5 percent of the entire adults in the United States- utilized social . . . → Read More: Adult Internet Users Say Social Networking is Good
By Jane Gracielo, on August 14th, 2011% 
There are some methods to avoid social ads, refuse promotional content from partners and stop sharing personal data with third-party applications.
LinkedIn, the social networking location for business professionals, could be a helpful means to look for jobs, look for new customers or develop your business contacts.
However, the first major U.S. social networking service to sell shares to the public ran into trouble with users in the previous week over a latest type of advertising called social ads.
The ads essentially turned LinkedIn users into cheerleaders for businesses. They used names of individuals and photos to endorse products or . . . → Read More: Steps To Secure Your LinkedIn Privacy
By Jane Gracielo, on July 21st, 2011% 
The Internet world is abuzz with the Google+ chatter. Google+ is Google’s supposed Facebook killer.
“Supposed Facebook killer” may be a little forward but Google is absolutely fighting for market share in the social space, and while Facebook is the most obvious target, I believe LinkedIn and the professional community is a more rational ambition.
We need first to observe how Google+ is different from its generation.
The idea of “Circles” is a unique alteration from the usual things we see in several social networking sites.
Circles just proves that . . . → Read More: Google+ Could Be a Threat To Facebook and LinkedIn
By Jane Gracielo, on July 11th, 2011% 
LinkedIn, which is focused on job seekers and recruiters, exceeded MySpace to turn into the No. 2 social networking service in the US previous month, increased by its first public offering in May.
According to a Reston, Virginia-based ComSore report, for the month of June, the company had 33.9 million visitors, up 63% from a year before, while Myspace had 33.5 million, down 50%. Facebook stayed the biggest social networking site with 160.9 million US visitors, up 14%.
The IPO of LinkedIn increased its profile with shareholders and assisted in building publicity throughout the . . . → Read More: LinkedIn Becomes Largest US Social-Networking Site Next to Facebook
By Jan Paul Ronaldo Manching, on May 20th, 2011% 
The biggest professional networking website, LinkedIn (LNKD) more than doubled to $94.25 on its initial day of trading (Thursday) after its first public offering. Renaissance Capital says since 2001, it is one of only seven IPOs to double in its first day, following the dot-com bubble explode.
For an Internet stock, it is a powerful opening, its 109% increase was the most excellent since China’s Oihoo 360 hopped 134% in March, is probably to stir up the investing interest of the public in the Internet’s previous buzzword: social networking.
. . . → Read More: IPO for LinkedIn Rises to 109% on First Day
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