Creating the optimum LinkedIn profile that has the best chances of attracting the interest and attention of potential employers and clients starts with setting up your profile, building your job and education history, and importing a flattering profile picture, but there is much more that can be done.
After you’ve spent a good amount of time filling out your LinkedIn profile and are rewarded with the blue 100% complete status bar, take a deep breath and start to explore the ways in which …

Consumer Reports (CR) published the results of a survey on May 3 that showed 13 million Facebook users in the U.S. either do not use or do not know about Facebook’s privacy settings.  There are currently about 150 million Americans who have Facebook accounts.
Consumer Report’s annual state of the net report detailed the results of the survey of 2002 households in the U.S. with online access, of which 1,340 had active Facebook accounts.  A press release issued by Consumer Reports described …

A new poll carried out by the Associated Press (AP) and CNBC found that social networking giant Facebook has some steep challenges to overcome as it moves ever closer to becoming a public company this week.  Facebook is expected to start trading on Friday.
The AP-CNBC survey of 1,004 Facebook users, conducted between May 3 and May 7, found that 57 percent of Facebook users don’t click on sponsored content or ads and another 26 percent said they rarely do. Facebook depends on advertizing for …

A Facebook addiction test has finally been developed and published by researchers at the University of Bergen, in the journal Psychological Reports.
 
The Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale, created by Psychology Professor Cecilia Schou Andreassen based on research with 423 students, deems a user addicted to Facebook if they answer “often” or “always” four or more times to six questions which must be answered with “very rarely”, “rarely”, “sometimes”, “often”, and …

CrowdCloud LLC, a subsidiary of digital media technology company Adiant, last month released the final version of its CrowdCloud app, which uses a patent pending technology to search social media and provide curated reports for users in the 41 U.S. cities it currently covers. Other Adiant brands include the Adblade Ad Network, OptiServe ad platform, CrowdCloud Mobile Community platform, and Mani Rewards.
 
The CrowdCloud app, available for free on the iTunes store, is also now available in …

Wolfram Alpha, the computational knowledge engine launched by Wolfram Research in 2009, is now available as a desktop app for Windows 7, but only via purchase from Intel’s AppUp Store.  The app can be purchased for $2.99.
 
Wolfram Alpha is free on the wolfram.com website so it is not clear why Wolfram is launching a paid version on Intel’s AppUp store, and only on the AppUp store. The product page for Wolfram Alpha at the Intel AppUp store promises: “Across thousands of domains – …

If you are one of the small but growing number of netizens who have grown weary with nagging privacy concerns while Facebooking each day, worried that the social networking giant is giving your private information away to any Tom Dick or Harry walking down the net street, app in hand, here is how to delete Facebook: carefully, slowly, and with no second thoughts.
 
Deleting Facebook is harder than it looks but it doesn’t have to be a headache or take very much time, just follow the right …

Social networking giant Facebook, which is getting ready for a widely anticipated IPO this spring, saw its first quarter to quarter revenue slide in two years, raising red flags for investors who have been watching its sizzling growth with keen interest.
 
Facebook is expected to raise a whopping $5 billion when it goes public, based on a $100 billion valuation, but the decline in revenue during the first quarter may be an indication that it can’t sustain its current rate of growth and …

Social networking website Facebook, which has seen an increasing number of complaints about its privacy policy and the way it handles user data even as it becomes more popular, this week announced it has made further changes to its terms of use document.
 
The document, which Facebook refers to as “Statement of Rights and Responsibilities” (SRR), is open for comment to the public until April 27th 2012 at 5 p.m. PDT. Facebook last month announced it was going to make changes to its SRR, …

Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong got on the Facebook bandwagon with his own Facebook page, which has so far attracted almost 12,000 “Likes”. Those who wish to “Like” and learn more about PM Loong can visit his page at  http://www.facebook.com/leehsienloong
 
The Prime Minister provided a welcoming address to his supporters and fans, noting that many of his colleagues are now using social media and that this phenomenon has so affected the way we work and live: …