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LinkedIn Goes Down

We’ve just noticed that LinkedIn is down for the count this afternoon.The site was displaying some generic error pages at first and then started showing an web server error: “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable,” indicating that the network’s servers are being rebooted. There are no updates as of yet from the LinkedIn Twitter account or on the LinkedIn blog. Here’s the current face of LinkedIn:Of course the Twitterati are characteristically freaking out, as we can see from this snapshot of search results for the term “LinkedIn”:We’ve contacted LinkedIn for more information on this downtime and will continue to keep you updated as the situation develops.

LinkedIn Polls and Groups Get Social and Findable

Professional networking site LinkedIn has made several dramatic improvements. This may just mark a new day for LinkedIn. Changes to its polling tool now enable business professionals to receive a more in depth view of poll respondents and get more social simultaneously. The polls can now be embedded and distributed through users’ websites (copy and paste functionality after polls are created) and on social destinations such as Facebook and Twitter. This more “open” approach is sure to benefit LinkedIn’s awareness.

LinkedIn Launched Seven Years Ago Today

It took a tweet from LinkedIn Senior Director of Corporate Communications Kay Luo for us to find out, but it’s true: LinkedIn turns seven years old today.While LinkedIn was founded in December of 2002, the actual website didn’t launch until May 5, 2003. That makes it older than Facebook (2004), Twitter (2006), YouTube (2005), and even MySpace (August 2003). Step back for a moment and think about that.

How to use Linkedin as an effective marketing tool

Having over 90 million users in 200 countries, LinkedIn has projected itself as one of the ever growing social media platform for business and professional networking. If connected properly, LinkedIn makes for a great marketing tool of today that can effectively pave the way of success for your business.

LinkedIn Revamps Groups with Likes, Follows and Discussions

Over the next few weeks, LinkedIn will be rolling out a complete overhaul to its Groups feature to make creating and following conversations easier and more engaging.When you visit a revamped LinkedIn Group (check out Fans of Mashable), you will immediately notice that strong emphasis has been placed on starting conversations. In the past, you’d have to click either “Start a Discussion” or “Submit News” to add a conversation to a group. Now both of those functions have been combined via a publisher box that is prominently displayed at the top of the page.

LinkedIn Beefs Up Its Twitter Integration [PICS]

LinkedIn already syncs status updates with Twitter, but now the business social network is taking its Twitter integration to the next level to help users better track and follow their connections.LinkedIn’s Tweets application, which the company announced has over one million users, has gotten a major upgrade. It is now divided into four parts: Overview, Connections, My Tweets and Settings. The overview tab shows you a basic outline of what your friends are tweeting, which people you are following and even suggests LinkedIn connections that you can follow. Of course, you can also update your Twitter status right from LinkedIn.

How LinkedIn Can Link Your Web Design Business With Success

Today has become an era of social networking websites. They are not only popular but these websites prove to be a best platform to stay connected with everyone around the globe. LinkedIn is one of the most popular social networking websites; however, what makes this networking website different from others is that it is a professional networking website. You might have an account on LinkedIn already but are you making the right use of it? Like every..