Facebookhas garnered tremendous success by introducing the Like button and Facebook connect to extend its reach beyond its own site. NowLinkedinseems to be trying to replicate FB’s moves with its own new initiatives. I’ve been impressed with the strides Linkedin has been making in recent months especially around the improved design of its site and new features that benefit businesses. As Linkedin ramps up it revenues and heads towards an IPO within the next year it needs to continue its growth beyond its own site and become part of the fabric of the web....

In the wake of theLinkedInIPO, Alex Wilhelm wrote a featureto get you startedon the professional social network. In this post, I want to enable you to step up your game and become a more serious user of the network. By the time you’re done with Alex’s post, you may have considered how you want to use LinkedIn, and created a profile, added an image, created a public profile URL and crafted a meaningful headline....

TLDR:The Mastering Linux Development Bundle explores how to understand and use Linux as an operating system for running all kinds of business and cloud-based information networks. Windows and Mac. Mac and Windows. When the discussion comes to operating systems, it feels like those two titans are the only ones anyone ever brings up, consuming all the oxygen in any OS conversation. That makes sense to a degree when you considerthe two make up about 97 percent of the market sharewhen it comes to OS usage....

Copies of the OS X Lion Golden Master — that is, the commercial release — have arrived at Apple Retail stores on hard drives, ready to be installed into staff workstations and demo computers,MacRumors reports. There will be no retail boxed copy of Lion, with the new operating system only available via the Mac App Store, requiring users to install the most recent version of Snow Leopard first. An overnight is expected to begin tomorrow after the store closes,other sources report....

I swear that when my little brother gets drunk, he can do a perfect impression of Heath Ledger’s The Joker. With theLipMeapp, he could essentially bring Ledger back to life with a cackling voice over and an easy cut and paste job. Along with the added editing features thatAviary’s new APIprovides, LipMe also allows users to cut the mouth out of any face- a newly taken picture of a friend, celebrity, animal, or even an inanimate object – with a simple swipe of the screen, and create an impersonation using their device’s front facing camera....