LinkedIn | AllThingsD.com | Forbes
LinkedIn's $90 million purchase of the newsreader app Pulse is just the latest of many recent changes at the site. The move is designed to turn the site from a resume repository to a full-fledged content platform.

Deep Nishar, LinkedIn senior vice president of product and user experience, announced the move on the site Thursday, praising Pulse founders Ankit Gupta and Akshay Kothari and giving some insight on LinkedIn's plans for the mobile news aggregator.

We believe LinkedIn can be the definitive professional publishing platform – where all professionals come to consume content and where publishers come to share their content. Millions of professionals are already starting their day on LinkedIn to glean the professional insights and knowledge they need to make them great at their jobs. We believe we can help all professionals make smarter and more informed business decisions leveraging all the great business knowledge flowing through LinkedIn in the form of news, Influencer posts, industry updates, discussions, comments and more.

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TechCrunch
Professional social networking site LinkedIn is driving more traffic than Twitter.com to TechCrunch, the site reports. Although the tech blog's Twitter account has 1.7 million followers, Twitter.com has been passed by Facebook and now LinkedIn as top traffic referrers. There are a couple important caveats: Twitter.com referrals don't include traffic from visitors using mobile or desktop Twitter apps, and much of the content on LinkedIn is directly imported from individual Twitter feeds. So Twitter is indirectly responsible for much of the direct traffic and LinkedIn referrals. Still, it shows LinkedIn as a significant sharing force, helped by the March launch of the LinkedIn Today news section, which highlights the most-shared content on the network.

All Things D | New York Times | 7x7.com
Dan Roth says his first job will be to build up “LinkedIn Today,” the service's equivalent of Facebook’s news feed, which shows users stories that other their friends/associates recommend. || Also announced today: Gizmodo editor Brian Lam is leaving the tech blog. "[He] is not precisely sure what he is going to do next, although he has been in talks with Atlantic Media about helping develop the Washington-based media company’s coverage of technology," reports David Carr. || At Salon.com, CEO Richard Gingras has resigned to become global head of news products at Google. He's held that job since May 2009. || Former New York Times reporter David Cay Johnston is joining Thomson Reuters as a columnist and TV commentator. The memo is below. (more...)

Alexandra Samuel

Alex Samuel suggests that one job requirement for journalists should be to have “500+” connections on their LinkedIn accounts. She writes that unlike many professions, journalists “live and die” by their networks, which help them find sources, experts … Read more