In addition to the new iPhone and Android apps, LinkedIn had a major website overhaul last year; launched a new search engine; introduced status update mentions and Klout-style endorsements; and it is also expanding its premium offerings, such as its Recruiter homepage for some of the site's most prolific users.
Some of the more choice nuggets of information include: 684,399 status updates mentioned the royal wedding over a four hour period - roughly 47 per second.
The list, drawn up in 2008 and subject to annual updating, mentions only the cities in which the various sites are located, not their specific addresses (though that information, too, would generally be available online).
The combination of blogs, tweets, updates, mentions, and @replies oftentimes act as mirrors and smokescreens, potentially tricking us into believing that what we see on social networks may truly be what actually occurs in real life.
It also lists a bunch of rural areas that you definitely shouldn't go to, with the latest update mentioning a "deteriorating security situation along the Colombia-Ecuadorian border", where there has been a spate of kidnappings.
(Update: as mentioned in the comments section below, the game was also used in the auto industry as a cheap diagnostic tool. Thanks to our reader, Gadget, for that information).
You know that Europe-only Palm Pre update we mentioned just a little while ago?
The strategic report Indonesia Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Report Q3 2006 and the Matrix of Drug Quality Report (update 2008) mentioned that fake products accounted for up to 20-25% of total drug sales [ 18, 21].
Updates that mentioned only an increased number of cases without additional information about geographical spread were excluded, as were reports about WHO technical meetings and epidemiological survey findings.
Those that did appreciated when the update message clearly mentioned the inconvenience of updating (e.g., machine restart, time needed to update, pop-up being small and unobtrusive).
