BranchOut is sort of like a LinkedIn
for Facebook because it allows you to network and find jobs through your
friends on the social network
BranchOut’s Facebook app lets you search for companies and then shows you all
your friends who either work there or know somebody who does. The application
basically unlocks the massive amounts of career data about your social graph on
the world’s largest social network
Recruiters, in turn, use BranchOut to promote jobs and source talent from a
variety of employment sectors
Via the partnership, job seekers on CareerBuilder can view jobs of interest and
instantly see people in their expanded network, via BranchOut’s application, who
they could contact for a potential referral or advice on getting an interview
According to a 2011 CareerBuilder study in the U.S., 40 percent of workers who
are looking for jobs said they research companies that interest them on Facebook
before applying to a position; and one-in-five (21 percent) use Facebook to
contact friends about job opportunities.
Fellow job search portal Monster recently recently
launched a BranchOut-clone called BeKnown
La connexion sécurisée HTTPS ne sera bientôt plus une
option : Twitter déploie actuellemment sur sa plateforme ce protocole qui
deviendra permanent.
Ticker pour les applications. Celui-ci commencera à
recevoir des histoires sponsorisées (soit un des formats d’annonces
publicitaires du réseau social) pour montrer aux utilisateurs du réseau social
quelles sont les applications utilisées par leurs amis.
Facebook abandonne Facebook
Lieux (Facebook Places en anglais) mais pas la géolocalisation. En
effet, les membres du réseau social ont toujours la possibilité d’indiquer où
ils se trouvent non seulement à partir de leur smartphone mais aussi directement
à
partir de leur ordinateur
Un article très intéressant (en anglais, sorry pour les non anglophones) qui montre que la création de Chrome OS n'a pas pour but premier son adoption par le plus grand nombre.
including increasing GPS and smartphone adoption, success of new business models, continued growth of mobile advertising, and the wider coverage and higher speeds of mobile networks.
fivefold
Navigation, local search and people-locating services are the key areas for operators
Navigation applications are the largest location-based service revenue generators
Google and Nokia are shifting the business model from payment to advertising-funded.