Continuing our weekly overview of LinkedIn related press and blogosphere coverage, today we have for you an interview that our very own Rob Getzschman did for the Smart Show, a web based video series for the road warrior, brought to you by Holiday Inn Express.

3 LinkedIn Tips for the Road Warrior:

1. LinkedIn Mobile

LinkedIn Mobile is available for your iPhone, Blackberry or any WAP enabled mobile phone. It allows you to search and connect with profiles of individuals you meet at conferences, instantly send messages to your connections in the cities you travel to, etc…

Learn more about LinkedIn Mobile

2. LinkedIn Status

Updating your status allows you to tell your network what you’re doing or planning to do in the near future.

Update your LinkedIn Status now!

3. LinkedIn Apps – Tripit

Tripit’s MyTravel app is a “business travel dashboard” that allows you to display your current location, upcoming trips and travel stats within your professional network on LinkedIn.

Watch a demo of the MyTravel App here

A recent report by Juniper Research says that by 2013, mobile will be a $300 billion marketplace. To get a better picture of the digital distribution business, we talked to some experts in digital content: Jason Kilar, CEO of Hulu; Gregg Spiridellis, CEO and Co-founder of JibJab; and Mitch Rotter, SVP of Content and Acquisitions at Thumbpla

Online, Hulu ties advertisers to the best premium content in a well-lit environment, and JibJab offers personalized Sendables in line with its creative brand. These business models transfer naturally over to the mobile space, where businesses are adapting to sell advertising, services, creative content, and applications to deliver them easily. Thumbplay, for example, has negotiated countless agreements to sell games, music, video, graphics and ringtones across several mobile carriers.

As Google’s Android platform shipped last month on the T-Mobile G1 smartphone, it might be a good time to look at the business of digital and ask: where can my company add value in the mobile space? Mobile represents a wild west of opportunity for entrepreneurs, marketers, advertisers and content creators, while gateways like the iTunes App Store enable savvy pioneers to make a quick ROI from simple apps. With a $300 billion market cap over the next five years, expect mobile to draw a lot of attention from new industries and bit players alike. Most importantly, mobile lets businesses ask the question: what would you put in the pocket of every professional?

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