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• Facebook vs. LinkedIn: Which has the better privacy?

  Privacy advocates' criticism over recent moves by Facebook and Google Buzz begs the question: Is privacy possible in a social network? And, if so, which social-network service does it the best?

• LinkedIn Quick Tip: How to Use 'Company Follow'

  What LinkedIn's "Company Follow" is and how to use it effectively.

• LinkedIn: Get More from the Social Networking Service

  With over 60 million members in over 200 countries, LinkedIn is the social network for professionals. Here's a collection of LinkedIn quick tips and tricks to help you take your profile and user experience to the next level.

• LinkedIn Quick Tip: Integrate LinkedIn With Outlook

  Integrate LinkedIn With Outlook

• Open-Xchange integrates Facebook, Twitter with e-mail inbox

  Open-source collaboration software vendor Open-Xchange plans to open its e-mail inbox to messages from social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

• LinkedIn Opens APIs, Clearing Way for New Apps

  LinkedIn announced today the release of its APIs and the launch of its "LinkedIn Platform," which will enable developers to integrate LinkedIn into their business applications and websites.

• LinkedIn for BlackBerry smartphones: Details

  It's about time.

• New app deepens SAP ties to LinkedIn

  SAP and the business social-networking site LinkedIn have partnered on an application that will let users integrate their LinkedIn and SAP Community profiles.

• SAP offers LinkedIn recruitment tools to channel partners

  SAP has inked a deal with LinkedIn that will provide the software vendor's channel partners with special tools and services for the popular business social-networking and careers site.

• Study: Top CEOs still shunning Twitter, Facebook

  CEOs at the top companies in the U.S. are dramatically disconnected from the social networking phenomenon, according to a research report released this week by UberCEO.com, an online news and discussion site that focuses on CEOs at major companies.

• Former Yahoo exec Weiner takes over as LinkedIn CEO

  Former Yahoo executive Jeff Weiner has been appointed CEO of LinkedIn, where he has served as interim president since January.

• Twitter's ecosystem builds with job search app

  The social media phenomenon that is Twitter continues to attract third-party developers with the London-based WorkDigital developing TwitterJobSearch, a job search engine for the microblogging service now available online (in beta, of course).

• LinkedIn overhauls its search platform

  The LinkedIn business social network this week rolled out an overhauled search platform that it says will let users more easily find who they are looking for on the site.