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 …

One year ago Facebook announced that it would no longer support Internet Explorer 6, and now it is moving in the same direction with IE7 by not showing the new Timeline profile.
 
ZDNet contributor Emil Protalinski, noting the change, observed that Facebook announced in August 2010 it would no longer support IE6, and that Facebook now is very difficult to use in IE6. Protalinksi said that Facebook is likely to stop supporting IE7 altogether: “Facebook is unlikely to stop just at the new …

Social networking giant Facebook in effect this week admitted that it had erred with regard to concerns over its facial recognition system, when it began running advertisements explaining to users how they could shut it down.
 

Facebook runs ads on Tag Suggestions

Earlier in the year, Facebook members unknowingly had opted into the “Tag Suggestions” feature, which employs facial recognition technology to name people in pictures that have been posted on Facebook.  The website’s …

Almostfamous.com, a website devoted to discovering new artists and providing ways for them to share their media launched today, making it the most comprehensive way to find talent via social media.
 

Amostfamous.com launches

Artists can use the almostfamous.com website to upload media to modules in their profile, link RSS feeds from their blogs or their Twitter account, upload pictures and video from YouTube, sound files, create calendar events, or post messages to their followers.  …

A new scam is spreading on Facebook walls around the world via an enticing invitation to “Check out your Profile stalkers”.

The wall post proclaims “OMG! Its unbelievable now you can get to know who views your profile. I can see my top profile visitors and I am so shocked that my ex is still creeping my profile every hour.”
 
The scam post instructs Facebook members to copy code contained in a box, then go to the Facebook website, and paste the code into the URL bar, and hit …

Facebook’s ubiquitous share button now has most of the functionality of the Like button, following release of a major update today, and months of minor updates over the last few months.  The Share button is being phased out.

Facebook members may now not be so quick to click on the Like button because when doing so, a link to the story with a full headline, summary, and picture will appear on their Facebook profile wall, comments can be made, and the story will appear on all their friend’s …

Facebook said today it will begin automatically moving all users over to its new profile design, which rearranges more popular features. Facebook initially made its new profile design optional to test reaction from users, when it first introduced it to the world in December.

The biggest changes to the new profile design are the appearance of a number of pictures at the top of the page and most of the navigation features are now under the user’s profile photo. The new user interface is …