LinkedIn is the interconnections of business professionals from 200 countries and more than 170 industries around the world. Unlike other web-based social networks, LinkedIn is business-oriented. It is designed primarily for professional networking and now boasts more than 40 million members making it the largest network of professionals in the world. On LinkedIn, the people one has listed as contacts are called connections. One’s network of contacts may include direct connections, 2nd degree connections (connections added through direct connections) and 3rd degree connections (connections added through 2nd degree connections). In 2008, LinkedIn added new features such as the Amazon Reading... [Read more]