LinkedIn unveils its social newspaper, LinkedIn day-Venture Beat

LinkedIn has just announced a new product today called uh, LinkedIn today. It is an online news site with the most-shared headlines on service professional network.

This may at first glance seem all that different from all other news services pulls headlines from Facebook and Twitter. The difference, however, is that LinkedIn today is connected to users ' professional identities, which means that it can filter the headlines in a smart new way. For example, if you click the "Internet", you not only see the most-shared Internet-related headlines — instead, you see what are shared by people if LinkedIn profiles shows that they are working in the Internet industry.

Product manager Liz Walker said this feature is particularly important to the growing number of workers whose jobs involve multiple sectors. Try to be at the forefront of news in more than one sectors can be time consuming, so LinkedIn today gives you a quick, high-level view of professionals in each industry are discussing. Right now news product includes 22 industries, but Walker said it could add more filters, for example. job title (a section shows what CEOs share) or location (a section to the healthcare sector in India).

When users spot a story that interests them, they can also see who shared the story and start a conversation about what's new with one of their contacts in LinkedIn. They can also access these headlines in an updated version of the LinkedIn iPhone app goes live today.

LinkedIn today seems to be a logical extension of the company's latest product strategy. LinkedIn launched its article-sharing button last November, and it has to add other features to keep users to return to your Web site.

When it filed for its initial public offering, LinkedIn should be noted that one of the risks of its business is the fact that "a large majority of our page views generated by a minority of our members", which in turn creates the opportunity to "our members ' profiles are forældetunøjagtige or missing informationthat users and customers want. "But if you return to LinkedIn every day to see headlines, so you are more likely to keep your profile up-to-date and engaging with other users.

You can check out LinkedIn today here. Walker said that the company in the next few weeks to add more "access points" to the service from the Web site main LinkedIn.

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