Constantly being bombarded with emails urging you to join your friends’ and co-workers’ professional networks on LinkedIn is incredibly annoying these days. But the folks at Squirrel-Monkey show us that it could have been a lot worse had LinkedIn existed in the ’80s.
We pulled a bunch of detailed information about Apple’s employees from LinkedIn, which is all available on the site. It turns out Apple employs way more general and administrative people than research and development engineers, according to the LinkedIn data. It also hires way faster than most other tech companies in the industry.
This is what KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is doing: their incoming check-in system will allow passengers to choose seat mates based on their Facebook and LinkedIn profiles, so he or she can sit next to someone who shares their interests.
If high school taught me anything, where you sit — and who you sit next to — in the cafeteria is absolutely imperative to your social status and future happiness. And that lesson is now being retaught by a Danish airline — they’ll let you chose your seatmate based on their social media profile.
TechCompanyPay is a new site where you can find out what the world’s top technology companies pay their employees. Built by Google engineer Gareth Jones, the site provides links to LinkedIn accounts, if you’re the stalker type, and allows you to search for companies by name and location.
Here’s something every LinkedIn user should disable today, lest you want to see your name and face used in advertising for the social-networking site.
Twitter may have the exclusive status of being built into iOS for sharing purposes, but that doesn’t mean Apple’s ignoring Facebook. In addition to Twitter handles, Contacts in iOS 5 has spots for Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, and totally inexplicably, MySpace. [AllThingsD]
Storing passwords in plaintext is a bad idea. You’d think that the smarties at Netflix and Foursquare would know better. But the Wall Street Journal reports their Android versions – and other apps – do no such thing. Not good.
