Linkedin's Career Explorer - Printing Facebook - MS sues Motorola over Android - Ovi hits 2.3mn downloads - FT's Tilt - ONGO? -
Ramakrishnan Laxman
Translating user data into useful information is now the cornerstone of LinkedIn’s
product roadmap. For example, the company recently updated company profiles with additional data visualizations such as the most popular schools attended by employees, the segmentation of an employee base by skillset and more. Today, LinkedIn is launching a new data-focused feature, called LinkedIn Career Explorer, that provides college graduates with insights from other LinkedIn members to help them visualize a career path.Printing Facebook Gives A Whole New Meaning To The Term “Facebook Wall”
Ever thought to yourself: hey I would love to have all my Facebook friends’ profile pictures printed on one giant poster and decorate my living room wall with it? Yeah, me neither, but perhaps if you’d learn that youcould do it, maybe you’d consider it.
Enter Printing Facebook, which, well, lets you print all your Facebook friends’ profile picture on one giant poster for you to decorate that living room wall with.
First of all, if you’re not in the contiguous United States, you’re out of luck as far as getting the poster shipped to you goes. If you are, and you have $25 burning in your pocket for something like this (including the shipping fee), you can head on over here to order your very own 20×40 real-life Facebook wall.
All “Friends Posters” come printed in high-resolution on quality photo paper, wrapped in tissue paper and rolled in a cardboard tube.
Artist Benjamin Lotan, who cooked up his “Friend Poster” thing just in time for the opening weekend ofThe Social Network, says this is only the first product in a series of many to come – in an email he says an option to print out your Tumblr blog will be out next.
Microsoft Sues Motorola Over Android
Microsoft leveled a suit at Motorola’s Android-based smart phone. The suit charges Motorola with infringing on its patents related to 'synchronizing email, calendars and contacts, scheduling meetings, and notifying applications of changes in signal strength and battery power.' Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sees things a bit differently. “It’s not like Android’s free,” Ballmer told WSJ in an interview this weekend about Windows Phone 7. “Android has a patent fee,” he said. “You do have to license patents,” he continued. So Ballmer’s stance is that while Google may not charge a licensing fee for Android, there is a hidden free — one compliments of none other than Microsoft.
Nokia Hits 2.3 Million Downloads A Day On Ovi Store
The day after Nokia started shipping its flagship N8 smartphone, it released a furry of statistics to make the point that it was making progress in building out its Ovi Store and distributing applications. It said 200,000 people sign up daily for the Ovi Store; downloads have increased to 2.3 million a day and there’s 70 developers who have surpassed the 1 million download mark.
FT's Tilt Is A Pure-Play Digital News Site About Emerging Markets
The Financial Times is creating a separate, spin-off website covering emerging global markets.
We first reported about FT Tilt in July, when its purpose was unclear. Now we’ve learned from the publisher that: “The name ‘Tilt’ was inspired by the recognition that global economic and financial power are tilting south and east.”
Tilt will be based in New York but will staff bureau in regions including Latin America, the Middle East and Asia.
The project is being led by some of the people who have made the FT’s Alphaville financial blog and community an award-winner - Paul Murphy (Alphaville’s founding editor) will be editor-in-chief, Alphaville correspondent Stacy-Marie Ishmael will be editor and Tom Brammar has been hired as managing director.
Big Publishers Invest in Ongo, Social News Service
A number of major newspaper publishers have made big investments in Ongo Inc., a start-up with plans to launch a new social media service that allows users to share news and other information online by year's end. Ongo said it raised a total $12 million in an initial round of investments from Gannett, The New York Times Co., and the Washington Post Co. While few details are available about the forthcoming service, Alex Kazim, Ongo Inc.'s founder and chief executive officer, stated: "We are building Ongo to reflect the many ways consumers prefer to read, organize and share digital news."
The tools represent a renaissance in how we make sense of our information culture. They provide context and meaning to the often baffling world of big data. This is a snapshot of what is available. We are relying on the work done by Paul Bradshaw, whoseblog is an excellent source about the new world of data journalism. Factual, Socrata, Google Fusion Tables, Yahoo! Pipes, OpenHeatMap What Happens When Facebook Goes Down?
More than a million websites around the web are looped into the world's largest social network via Facebook Connect. Its social plug-in -- the increasingly ubiquitous "Like" button -- generates at least 3 billion clicks a day. And for many brands, a Facebook presence has outstripped their own proprietary CRM programs. With Facebook providing sharing tools, authentication, and even commerce for so many sites and brands, what happens when Facebook goes down, as it did on Sept. 22 for more than two hours?
That's exactly what happened on CNN.com's front page for two and a half hours -- users simply couldn't log in through Facebook Connect to comment, like and share articles with friends. The Facebook connect box stared back at them empty, waiting to be filled in with information while Facebook fixed itself.