The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “LinkedIn Says Mystery App Is Coming Soon”.Kurt Wagner says, “LinkedIn has big plans for mobile adoption in 2014, and a new standalone app (or two) appears to be among them.The professional networking company has “more apps planned” for 2014, according to Parker Barrile, VP of Product for LinkedIn Talent Solutions — with one of them coming in the “not too distant future.”That app, the company’s fifth, could arrive in the next few weeks. Here are LinkedIn’s existing four apps“.LinkedIn Says... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Twitter Announces Pop-Up Notifications for Web”.Kurt Wagner says, “Twitter is bringing notification alerts to the web.The company announced Thursday that users who access Twitter.com will soon receive pop-up notifications when others on the platform engage with them — for example, when a user retweets, mentions or messages them.The notification will appear in the lower-right hand corner of the user’s timeline. They are also interactive; you can follow someone back or reply to a message directly from the notification“.Twitter... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Facebook Tweaks News Feed Algorithm to Combat ‘Spammy’ Posts”.Kurt Wagner says, “Facebook is tweaking its news feed algorithm again, this time to combat posts that contains “like-baiting,” duplicate content and “spammy links.”Facebook says the algorithm change is in response to user feedback, and hopes to minimize the visibility of content the company considers “spammy.”SEE ALSO: How to Curate Your Facebook News FeedIncluded as spammy are posts that include “like-baiting,”... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Widespread Encryption Bug, Heartbleed, Can Capture Your Passwords”.Adario Strange says, “Some websites running SSL encryption, such as Airbnb, Pinterest, USMagazine.com, NASA, and Creative Commons, among others, were exposed to a major security bug called Heartbleed on Monday.The bug was reportedly discovered by a member of Google’s security team and a software security firm called Codenomicon.A number of other websites, according to a list making the rounds on GitHub, may be vulnerable to the bug as well“.Widespread... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Facebook Overhauls and Limits Those Despised Right-Rail Ads”.Todd Wasserman says, “When Facebook rolled out its last desktop redesign last month, it left the right column — the home of many dodgy direct-response ads — alone. Now, however, it’s gotten around to cleaning them up as well.The company announced on Wednesday that it will roll out an updated design for right-column ads in the “coming months.” The new units will have the same proportions as desktop news feed ads, which means they will be bigger. There... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Automattic, Maker of WordPress, Acquires Longreads”.Seth Fiegerman says, “Longreads is celebrating its fifth birthday by getting a new owner.Longreads, which curates longform stories from around the web, has been acquired byAutomattic, the company behind WordPress. The two companies announced the deal late Wednesday. Terms were not immediately disclosed.“We see a huge opportunity to go deeper with our mission, both through Longreads and WordPress.com, to find undiscovered talent, to celebrate the work of writers and publishers... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Twitter’s New Profiles: Everything You Need to Know”.Lance Ulanoff says, “The rumors and feature teases are true: New Twitter profiles are here, with a brand-new, yet oddly familiar, look. The new design is rolling out slowly, unless you’re a celebrity or a new user. And it may represent a real turning point.Like many people who live on Twitter, I don’t look at my own profile page very often. I spend most of my time on the Twitter.com homepage to see tweets from all the accounts I follow, and my Notifications page... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “8 Tips for Success on Facebook’s New Video Advertising Platform”.Scott Gerber says, “Facebook has been changing the game for advertisers since its inception a decade ago. And with its new video advertising platform, there are now even more ways to reach your target audience. But how should you use the tool to generate the most successful results? To find out, I asked a panel of eight entrepreneurs from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) what tricks they have for getting the most out of it (without alienating users). Their responses... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Twitter Acquires Cover, an Android Lock Screen App”.Seth Fiegerman says, “Twitter has acquired Cover, an Android lock screen app, the two companies announced Monday. Terms of the deal were not immediately disclosed.Cover was founded by former Google employees and launched on an invitation-only basis in October. Cover displays the six apps on the Android lock screen that users are most likely to want to use, based on daily analysis of the user’s smartphone habits and the current context (whether you’re at home, work or... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Brace Yourselves: 15 New Types of Twitter Ads May Be Coming”.Kurt Wagner says, “Twitter is stepping up its advertising game in a big way, according to reports.New app install ads, among other ad formats, are coming to the service in the next few months, according to multiple reports that surfaced this week. In total, Twitter is planning to add 15 new types of ads, and CEO Dick Costolo showed them off to a group of ad execs at company headquarters last week, according to The Wall Street JournalThe most well-known of these new formats... [...]