"LinkedIn Taps Professional Connections to Create News Service"

by Miguel Heft, New York Times

But before it does, LinkedIn wants to give its more than 90 million members — many of whom visit the site only rarely — a reason to stop by every day. So on Thursday, the site unveiled a personalized news service, LinkedIn Today, which aggregates headlines from around the Web. Rather than being edited by humans, LinkedIn Today is put together automatically based on what stories people in a user’s professional network and industry are reading and sharing.

See Also: “Introducing LinkedIn Today” (by Liz Reaves Walker, The LinkedIn Blog)
See Also: “LinkedIn Launches a Social News Site” (by Greg Sterling, Search Engine Land)

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