Guten morgan. Tuesday may be the worst day of the week, but it’s no less full of tech potential. Let us guide you by the hand through the tech goings ons that you may have missed while you were in your slumber or at your desk. Read more
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Happy Best Android Apps day! That’s right, app-loving Android owners – it’s the special time of the week where we helpfully point you in the direction of the best downloads available for your coveted Google blower. So ignore all that nonsense about this statistically being the most depressing week of the year and fire up some of the wondrous applications showcased below in our best Android apps of the week roundup – we can assure you that joy and merriment will flow forth like wine. Maybe.
Office slowing down for the last leg of Friday? Why not insult 50% of your co-workers by having a go at Cubeduel. Cubeduel uses your LinkedIn profile, and asks you to rate who you’d rather work with, in a sort of platonic but bitchier version of your face or mine. There’s no escaping it once someone in the office has started it either, as you can’t unlock your stats until you’ve chosen one person over another at least 20 times, and even after that it requires your co-workers to vote.
Free | CubeDuel
[via @busterbenson]
LinkedIn has a feature which allows you to see who has been looking at your profile, and until now, that feature has only showed you the rough location and the area of work that person was in. Now however, LinkedIn will be adding extra stalker potential to its pages, by telling you the name of the person that’s been sneaking a peek at your professional life (if you’re one of the people who bothers to keep their LinkedIn profile up to date that is). Flood Lite, quite appropriately, asks us to imagine what would happen if we could see this sort of information on Facebook…
Do you keep your LinkedIn profile up to date, or is it gathering dust?
[via Flood Lite]
We’ve hit the halfway point of the day, so it’s time to celebrate with a plate piled high with all the latest tech news. Grab all headlines and shovel them into your hungry peepers right here in the lunchtime lowdown!
The LinkedIn Blackberry app has finally arrived, joining the LinkedIn iPhone app which has been residing on hard-nosed businessmen’s home screens for a while now. Built in collaboration with RIM, the LinkedIn Blackberry app integrates with your phone contacts and email inbox.
Microsoft Outlook is set to get social, adding LinkedIn integration with Facebook and Myspace set to join the party soon. Is Microsoft Outlook going a bit Google Buzz? And why?