On Wednesday, LinkedIn launched LinkedIn Signal in an effort to put more emphasis on the social influence of your contacts.
But don’t jump LinkedIn to find out more – Signal was launched in a private beta form, and will slowly roll out to members.
Some features of LinkedIn Signal
- You aren’t limited 140 characters like Twitter
- The current window of tweets from your contacts has expanded to dominate the page
- You get ‘trending links’
- Users can see who shared a link
- Allows you to use filters based on LinkedIn’s structured data such as what industry people are in, to create a custom feed of Twitter and LinkedIn updates
- Companies now can have specific product pages