LinkedIn continued its mobile march with another major app update Thursday
The professional network, which already rolled out two new standalone apps in the past three months, announced Connected, a complete overhaul of its existing standalone app Contacts
Contacts wasn’t just an address book, although it could operate as one; the app also included a “To Do” tab, a News Feed-like stream of alerts from the user’s LinkedIn connections. Alerts include milestones like work anniversaries, birthdays, or a new job
These alerts are front and center in ConnectedLinkedIn found that most users open the app for a few minutes in the morning, so the company repurposed the app to focus more on updates you may want to see before heading off to work. Each update appears as its own card, and users can swipe left and right to toggle between new and old updates Read more…
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