Many of you may have heard by now that a prominent blog had its commenting system hacked into and a large number of user names and passwords were exposed.
As we closely monitored the situation, we decided it was imperative to take preemptive action to help ensure that those leaked passwords were not being used to attack any LinkedIn members.
Wonder what really makes people cringe when they look at your LinkedIn Profile? It’s those clichéd words and phrases. You know what they are — those ambiguous ones that really don’t tell you anything.
As we head into 2011 our Analytics Team decided to take a crack at finding the most clichéd and overused phrases for the past year using over 85 million LinkedIn profiles. Here are our 2010 top 10 buzzwords used in the USA.
Ed. note: The transition to our new data center is now complete – Dec 14, 2010. We continue to tune our site and optimize site performance this morning, following our recent cutover to the new Los Angeles data center. Thanks for your patience during the transition. Stay tuned. – Dec 13, 2010
What a big difference, a couple of years makes. Towards the end of 2008, we set up a new data center in Chicago to deal with the ever increasing demand on our infrastructure. Fast forward to 2010 and we have nearly three times as many users using our site to be more productive, in addition to our premium solutions being used by a vast number of Fortune 500 companies and small businesses today.
We have over 50,000 products and services represented on LinkedIn Company Pages today and that number is growing at a pretty rapid clip.
With millions of LinkedIn members following over a million companies on LinkedIn, we are glad to introduce a range of new capabilities for companies to glean insights, ways to both manage their Company Page more effectively and to make it easier for customers to recommend them.
Whether it’s keeping in touch with our colleagues, seeking or posting new opportunities, or forging new relationships, LinkedIn improves the way we stay connected, facilitates professional growth, and allows us to increase our online social capital. At Flock, we’re a big believer in the ability of online social to change lives.
For five years, we’ve helped our users get the most out of their social networks and we’re now 9.5 million users strong. For many of us, online social has been life changing, but the sheer volume of this ever-growing stream of information makes it hard to keep up. Between staying on top of our valuable LinkedIn activity, maintaining our other social network relationships, and taking in information such as RSS feeds, it’s a challenge to make sure we get the most value from our social universe. At Flock we’ve focused on this challenge and we’re here to help.
