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  • Do LinkedIn smartphone apps harvest contact data from Gmail?

    Is anyone else irritated by the way LinkedIn appears to harvest email addresses in an attempt to persuade you to transform correspondents into LinkedIn contacts? I’ve often wondered where LinkedIn got its information about people that I might like to contact but things came to a head yesterday when it…

  • The dubious value of LinkedIn endorsements

    Allow me to pose a simple question: what value does anyone get from the endorsements lovingly gathered and displayed (with no little amount of pride) by LinkedIn? I ask myself this in light of some of the endorsements given to me. But I’m sure that the same question has occurred…

  • Exchange Unwashed Digest June 2013

    June was the month of waiting for Exchange 2013 CU2, but lots of other things deserved discussion and featured in my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsITPro.com. Here’s what happened during the month: Outlook Web App 2013 and its morphing user interface (June 27): Microsoft gave Outlook Web App yet another…